Third party candidates?

There are times politics all starts to make this Simpsons Halloween special appear a little too accurate.  And it’s times like those that the words and actions of Ralph Nader and Ron Paul start to sound like a refreshing splash of realism to wash the shit stains of cynicism and subsequent indifference off my A-Team pajamas.  And I imagine any person capable of thinking deeper than the frighteningly common instances of tribal good vs. evil, A vs. not-A, sports mentality politics so commonly nourished by the punditocracy of the major media has succumbed to this type of apathy…myself included.

A brief history, if I must:

A moment of observation…

…in which I think the gas station is now advertising fuel at a rate of 41.9 cents per gallon, instead of the actual $4.19 per gallon.  For a virtual nanosecond I feel excitement.  But then I wonder, much as I used to about phone charges, if, in a country so in love with gambling, getting away with something/screwing the system, and not being affected by the realities of supply and demand that the rest of the world experiences, that a real opportunity exists here for the gas stations with the balls to try it out:

A fine spring greetings!

And a beautiful one it is in Oregon, particularly because animals of all shapes and sizes have reappeared to beautify the planet, and this can only mean one thing: Bigfoot Season.

 

Now, I’m not suggesting we should hunt and/or kill bigfoot, or even track him/her in order to collect footprints, photographs, or other evidence of his/her existence, but rather, let’s tantalize him/her with modern products and conveniences.  I, for one, spend my weekends camouflaged in the bushes of the Cascades Mountains, planting trails of meat to stockpiles of Us and People magazines.  I smear pheromones around lone IPod minis with a full storage of the latest top 40.   I pool the sweet, sweet nectar of honey on bottles of Budweiser.  Oh yes, the market can yet expand.

 

And speaking of weird phenomena, remember crop circles?

Politics as usual

I’ve been wanting to write blogs for some time, on a variety of topics, but since political blogs are how I was introduced to the medium I’m sure I will always be drawn to them.  The problem with such blogs is the same as with other forums that discuss topics: polarization of opinion without any real discussion of facts.  This pattern gradually appears everywhere, two locations I have found demonstrative: