One day, when I am grey and crotchety and nostalgic, I will sit down with my children's children and tell them stories of simpler times, of happier times. I'll tell them about the blue skies we once lived under, about iPhones that were not nestled cozily within our frontal lobes, and about how peanut butter was once made of actual peanuts, instead of orphans and caulk. And I'll tell them a whimsical story about a time when the National Debt Clock in Times Square needed a mere thirteen digits to record the amount of money we owed to other nations.
"Sure, Grandpa," my platinum blond, telepathic descendants will yawn. "Next you'll be telling us that there was a time when humanity didn't live in constant, mortal terror of destruction at the cybernetically enhanced hands of Pacman Jones."
"No, children," I will sigh, my head bowed in sorrow for the thousands lost the night Jones levelled poor, defenseless Tallahassee. "No. Twas always thus."
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Monday, October 6, 2008
The Name Game
So on the heels of the less-disatrous-than-it-could-have-been VP debate, the McCain Palin campaign has seemingly come to the conclusion that they simply cannot win this election on the issues, a reading of political tea leaves that coincides with recent electoral maps, including Karl Rove's own. So instead, they are going to go big with every smear they can dig up, starting with former radical leftist Bill Ayers, a fellow resident of Obama's Hyde Park neighborhood who has sponsored a couple of fundraisers for the candidate when he was running for state senate in Illinois. Look for Chicago area developer Tony Rezko to be making an appearance in McCain campaign literature shortly, and even though McCain himself has declared the much maligned Rev. Wright off limits, it's not a huge stretch to think we'll see that ground tread a few more times before the 4th of November.
But just as pepople in glass houses shouldn't throw stones, people who have cast their lot alongsidescandalized S&L bankers maybe shouldn't bring up rivals dealings with less than savory characters. In a refreshing swing back at the dirty politics of the McCain campaign, which is so sadly reminiscent of the same mudslinging that derailed The Maverick's Straight Talk Express in 2000, the Obama camp is releasing a thirteen minute documentary on the Keating Five corruption investigation. And one can assume we'll also be hearing more about Sarah Barracuda's cozy relationship with the secessionist Alaskan Independence Party, of which First Dude Todd Palin was a longtime member. Palin has spoken several times at conventions for the party, most recently earlier this year, and has courted the votes of it's members, many of whom still hold a special place in their hearts for party founder Joe Vogler, who hated America so much that he "wouldn't be buried under their damn flag." Interesting fact: was interred in the Yukon Territory following his death during what has been described as a botched plastic explosives buy. Now, having no overriding interest in the overthrow of the government, I wouldn't know what a plastic explosives buy looks like, botched or not. But I would wager that if it goes well at all...you should survive it?
But just as pepople in glass houses shouldn't throw stones, people who have cast their lot alongsidescandalized S&L bankers maybe shouldn't bring up rivals dealings with less than savory characters. In a refreshing swing back at the dirty politics of the McCain campaign, which is so sadly reminiscent of the same mudslinging that derailed The Maverick's Straight Talk Express in 2000, the Obama camp is releasing a thirteen minute documentary on the Keating Five corruption investigation. And one can assume we'll also be hearing more about Sarah Barracuda's cozy relationship with the secessionist Alaskan Independence Party, of which First Dude Todd Palin was a longtime member. Palin has spoken several times at conventions for the party, most recently earlier this year, and has courted the votes of it's members, many of whom still hold a special place in their hearts for party founder Joe Vogler, who hated America so much that he "wouldn't be buried under their damn flag." Interesting fact: was interred in the Yukon Territory following his death during what has been described as a botched plastic explosives buy. Now, having no overriding interest in the overthrow of the government, I wouldn't know what a plastic explosives buy looks like, botched or not. But I would wager that if it goes well at all...you should survive it?
Thursday, October 2, 2008
A Few Words with Animator Don Hertzfeldt
Don Hertzfeldt is taking his latest animated film, I Am So Proud of You, on the road and I got the chance to speak with him a little bit for a feature. As sometimes happens for features, a lot of good interview got cut from the final product, so I'm posting the whole uncut transcript of the interview right here. Enjoy.
Your new film, I Am So Proud Of You, is the second in a planned trilogy that began with Everything Will Be OK. Is it technically a sequel, or a >new exploration of similar themes?
DH: It's the second chapter in a continuing story, but I wanted to make sure that you didn't necessarily have to have seen the first one to understand the second one. It's important for all three chapters to stand on their own two feet as individual movies. So I'm not sure if you'd call it a typical sequel.
How do the films relate to one another?
DH: proud takes place both before and after ok, and sort of plunges into deeper and darker waters.
Are you already at work on the third film in the trilogy, or taking some time off?
DH: probably going to take some time off. i dove straight into proud very soon after finishing ok, but i think i'll need a bit of a longer break this time. i'm still not entirely sure yet if chapter 3 will even be my next project. i had some leftover film so i recently shot a little bit of footage for it, but i guess i'll wait and see how things feel when i get back from touring in december, and what's going to be next.
Your award winning short Everything Will Be OK explores the everyday trials, travails and turmoil of living with mental illness. What compelled you >to take on such a serious subject using a medium that doesn't often get it's due for being an art form capable of tackling mature content?
DH: i've sort of approached the two films as children's books for adults. bedtime stories are there to help kids be less afraid of certain things and to gently let them fall asleep in the dark easier, and in some ways bill's story is there to help adults be less afraid of the things adults are afraid of. they're even fully narrated, like someone's reading them to you. i think there's a kind of innocence the animation brings to what is a sad and difficult story, and bill seems to have become a character that's very easy to relate to. animation can help let ideas slip through the door that otherwise might hit too close to home, people tend to be a little more open-minded watching a cartoon, especially when you make them laugh. it's sort of like slipping the audience their medicine hidden in their sugar.
You're no longer with the Animation Show, which you founded in 2003 alongside Mike Judge. Why not?
DH: it started to get sort of muddled during its third year, when MTV came onboard as a financial partner. i can't say that was in itself a bad decision because without them there might have not have even been a third volume, but it sort of changed the chemistry of everything. it wasn't really a simple animation festival that mike and i programmed anymore. and MTV had their own ideas of what the animation show should be, basically they told us the animation show was boring and wanted us to do an all-comedy show. i realized i was being blocked from programming 75% of the films i wanted to bring to the show's fourth volume and i couldn't really get straight answers from anyone about anything. it all just seemed to be drifitng further and further away from the sort of program it used to be. and mike and i were getting so busy with other stuff it was difficult just to get in touch to talk about it all. it was sad, but leaving the show eventually wasn't a very hard decision to make, you can either spend every day arguing with everybody or you can hand over the keys and just focus on your own work. there's that old saying, "when nobody's got your back, it's time to move your back."
You've long been on record as wanting nothing to do with making commercials – crass product placements aside, is there any cause or ideology you >would consider doing animation for?
DH: yeah if i ever had the time i wouldn't rule out doing something for charity, or an organization i felt strongly enough about
Your particular animation style is imitated with a disturbing frequency – is this a situation where imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, or do these >knock offs bother you?
DH: when it comes to all the terrible knock offs you see in TV commercials, they bother me because it seems like most people assume i'm reponsible for them.
You also mentioned on your blog that you're working on a project for TV – any chance you'll talk about the details of what that could be?
DH: it's a mini-series and has no relation to anything else i've done, it takes place about 100 years ago. i'm used to leaping right into projects immediately after coming up with them, but the world of funding for television production doesn't quite work that way so we're still not sure how soon exactly it's going to happen.
You work in a disctintly old school style, animating with pen, pencil and a 35mm animation camera, and doing animation, photography, sound, etc on >your own. How does the equipment you use affect your work?
DH: it's huge, i think i've probably talked about this to death but visually my last few movies would've been impossible without my old camera. and working this way is honestly just more fun. i'd much rather build a shot with my hands and paint and lighting beneath a camera lens than sit and stare in front of a monitor. it's more spontaneous and it keeps me on my toes. remember each short can take a couple years for me to complete in solitary confinement, so anything along the way that keeps me improvising and fresh is going to be a good thing.
You've often played with self awareness in animated characters and the nature of animation on the page and screen. Do you feel like you develop >a relationship with the characters you create?
DH: not really. it's strange to think that after all these years bill is the first character i've ever even been interested in revisiting. i think i'm more prone to develop relationships with the films as little capsules from the time in my life when i was making it. it's a weird nostalgic thing. when i see something ten years old now like lily and jim or billy's balloon, i'm paying more attention to all the memories of where i was in my life when the movie was made rather than what's happening on the screen.
Just one I'm curious about – when theatergoers shout along the lines of Ah, L'Amour, does that strike you as…hilarious? Kind of unnerving? Flattering?
DH: i think it's cool, there's all sorts of culty things people do with the films now and i like almost all of it. it can be surreal but i like seeing them take on lives of their own. people in the costumes, with the tattoos - everything will be ok tattoos now - i just like hearing that those connections are being made. it's the main reason i'm heading out on tour now with the new one. eventually putting your movie on TV or the web will bring you much bigger audiences, but you can't actually be there with them to see it working, you know? with a new movie, especially after taking so long to make, it's really important for me to actually see it unfold for people and be there when it happens.
Your new film, I Am So Proud Of You, is the second in a planned trilogy that began with Everything Will Be OK. Is it technically a sequel, or a >new exploration of similar themes?
DH: It's the second chapter in a continuing story, but I wanted to make sure that you didn't necessarily have to have seen the first one to understand the second one. It's important for all three chapters to stand on their own two feet as individual movies. So I'm not sure if you'd call it a typical sequel.
How do the films relate to one another?
DH: proud takes place both before and after ok, and sort of plunges into deeper and darker waters.
Are you already at work on the third film in the trilogy, or taking some time off?
DH: probably going to take some time off. i dove straight into proud very soon after finishing ok, but i think i'll need a bit of a longer break this time. i'm still not entirely sure yet if chapter 3 will even be my next project. i had some leftover film so i recently shot a little bit of footage for it, but i guess i'll wait and see how things feel when i get back from touring in december, and what's going to be next.
Your award winning short Everything Will Be OK explores the everyday trials, travails and turmoil of living with mental illness. What compelled you >to take on such a serious subject using a medium that doesn't often get it's due for being an art form capable of tackling mature content?
DH: i've sort of approached the two films as children's books for adults. bedtime stories are there to help kids be less afraid of certain things and to gently let them fall asleep in the dark easier, and in some ways bill's story is there to help adults be less afraid of the things adults are afraid of. they're even fully narrated, like someone's reading them to you. i think there's a kind of innocence the animation brings to what is a sad and difficult story, and bill seems to have become a character that's very easy to relate to. animation can help let ideas slip through the door that otherwise might hit too close to home, people tend to be a little more open-minded watching a cartoon, especially when you make them laugh. it's sort of like slipping the audience their medicine hidden in their sugar.
You're no longer with the Animation Show, which you founded in 2003 alongside Mike Judge. Why not?
DH: it started to get sort of muddled during its third year, when MTV came onboard as a financial partner. i can't say that was in itself a bad decision because without them there might have not have even been a third volume, but it sort of changed the chemistry of everything. it wasn't really a simple animation festival that mike and i programmed anymore. and MTV had their own ideas of what the animation show should be, basically they told us the animation show was boring and wanted us to do an all-comedy show. i realized i was being blocked from programming 75% of the films i wanted to bring to the show's fourth volume and i couldn't really get straight answers from anyone about anything. it all just seemed to be drifitng further and further away from the sort of program it used to be. and mike and i were getting so busy with other stuff it was difficult just to get in touch to talk about it all. it was sad, but leaving the show eventually wasn't a very hard decision to make, you can either spend every day arguing with everybody or you can hand over the keys and just focus on your own work. there's that old saying, "when nobody's got your back, it's time to move your back."
You've long been on record as wanting nothing to do with making commercials – crass product placements aside, is there any cause or ideology you >would consider doing animation for?
DH: yeah if i ever had the time i wouldn't rule out doing something for charity, or an organization i felt strongly enough about
Your particular animation style is imitated with a disturbing frequency – is this a situation where imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, or do these >knock offs bother you?
DH: when it comes to all the terrible knock offs you see in TV commercials, they bother me because it seems like most people assume i'm reponsible for them.
You also mentioned on your blog that you're working on a project for TV – any chance you'll talk about the details of what that could be?
DH: it's a mini-series and has no relation to anything else i've done, it takes place about 100 years ago. i'm used to leaping right into projects immediately after coming up with them, but the world of funding for television production doesn't quite work that way so we're still not sure how soon exactly it's going to happen.
You work in a disctintly old school style, animating with pen, pencil and a 35mm animation camera, and doing animation, photography, sound, etc on >your own. How does the equipment you use affect your work?
DH: it's huge, i think i've probably talked about this to death but visually my last few movies would've been impossible without my old camera. and working this way is honestly just more fun. i'd much rather build a shot with my hands and paint and lighting beneath a camera lens than sit and stare in front of a monitor. it's more spontaneous and it keeps me on my toes. remember each short can take a couple years for me to complete in solitary confinement, so anything along the way that keeps me improvising and fresh is going to be a good thing.
You've often played with self awareness in animated characters and the nature of animation on the page and screen. Do you feel like you develop >a relationship with the characters you create?
DH: not really. it's strange to think that after all these years bill is the first character i've ever even been interested in revisiting. i think i'm more prone to develop relationships with the films as little capsules from the time in my life when i was making it. it's a weird nostalgic thing. when i see something ten years old now like lily and jim or billy's balloon, i'm paying more attention to all the memories of where i was in my life when the movie was made rather than what's happening on the screen.
Just one I'm curious about – when theatergoers shout along the lines of Ah, L'Amour, does that strike you as…hilarious? Kind of unnerving? Flattering?
DH: i think it's cool, there's all sorts of culty things people do with the films now and i like almost all of it. it can be surreal but i like seeing them take on lives of their own. people in the costumes, with the tattoos - everything will be ok tattoos now - i just like hearing that those connections are being made. it's the main reason i'm heading out on tour now with the new one. eventually putting your movie on TV or the web will bring you much bigger audiences, but you can't actually be there with them to see it working, you know? with a new movie, especially after taking so long to make, it's really important for me to actually see it unfold for people and be there when it happens.
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
You Can't Always Get What You Want
And sometimes, you don't even get what you desperately need, eve in if you only need it because you made a big deal of needing it.
By now you know that the sound you hear, as of a great roar in the distance, is the world economy struggling for survival as the US stock market drags it beneath the water like a great crocodile, pinning it's already ailing victim in the bottom's silty mud and letting its last spark of life ebb away. After a record 770 point drop on the DJIA, Japan's Nikkeei and Hong Kong's Hang Seng index both took might wallops, losing five percent of their respective values within minutes of the start of trading, though the Hang Seng managed to recover during the day, closing up almost a percentage point. European markets are the latest in line for a pummeling, with (prepare your shocked face) banking sectors most hard hit, with recent Lloyd's of London acquisition HBOS losing 12% of it's value, and the Royal Bank of Scotland ended the day down 6%. Overall, most of the major European exchanges fell slightly overnight.
So now the financial scary go round comes full circle, and it promises to be another harrowing week day for Wall Street investors. With members of the House taking some time off for Rosh Hashanah, it will probably be at least Thursday before any sort of new plan even has a chance. Lawmakers on the hill are scrambling to put together a new package, but it remains to be seen if this one will be any more palatable than the one that is so unpalatable to voters across the board that most members of Congress won't touch it, even while the financial sky is falling. And that's really bad news, considering that whether or not this bill's passage was necessary when it was proposed, it certainly seems to have become so for the sake of the global economy being able to once more think the happy thoughts on which it survives.
A couple closing thoughts -
- Though she's being derided as a naysayer (go figure) by House Republicans for her speech before the vote, Nancy Pelosi didn't say anything that most of her colleagues - especially the House Republicans who voted against the final bill by a 2-1 margin - weren't thinking or saying.
- John McCain's staffers were eager to make sure their guy got his due credit for getting enough votes in line to pass a palatable bill. Now that all eight House Republicans from his home state of Arizona voted no, will he get his share of the blame?
By now you know that the sound you hear, as of a great roar in the distance, is the world economy struggling for survival as the US stock market drags it beneath the water like a great crocodile, pinning it's already ailing victim in the bottom's silty mud and letting its last spark of life ebb away. After a record 770 point drop on the DJIA, Japan's Nikkeei and Hong Kong's Hang Seng index both took might wallops, losing five percent of their respective values within minutes of the start of trading, though the Hang Seng managed to recover during the day, closing up almost a percentage point. European markets are the latest in line for a pummeling, with (prepare your shocked face) banking sectors most hard hit, with recent Lloyd's of London acquisition HBOS losing 12% of it's value, and the Royal Bank of Scotland ended the day down 6%. Overall, most of the major European exchanges fell slightly overnight.
So now the financial scary go round comes full circle, and it promises to be another harrowing week day for Wall Street investors. With members of the House taking some time off for Rosh Hashanah, it will probably be at least Thursday before any sort of new plan even has a chance. Lawmakers on the hill are scrambling to put together a new package, but it remains to be seen if this one will be any more palatable than the one that is so unpalatable to voters across the board that most members of Congress won't touch it, even while the financial sky is falling. And that's really bad news, considering that whether or not this bill's passage was necessary when it was proposed, it certainly seems to have become so for the sake of the global economy being able to once more think the happy thoughts on which it survives.
A couple closing thoughts -
- Though she's being derided as a naysayer (go figure) by House Republicans for her speech before the vote, Nancy Pelosi didn't say anything that most of her colleagues - especially the House Republicans who voted against the final bill by a 2-1 margin - weren't thinking or saying.
- John McCain's staffers were eager to make sure their guy got his due credit for getting enough votes in line to pass a palatable bill. Now that all eight House Republicans from his home state of Arizona voted no, will he get his share of the blame?
Saturday, September 27, 2008
You Got Mouse In My Pig! No, You Got Pig In My Mouse!
Between the "Will he or won't he?" presidential debate and the American economy undergoing total protonic reversal, it's easy to understand that quite a few noteworthy stories got swept aside this week in this week's news cycle. Here's one such interesting tidbit - the FDA has released a proposal for regulating genetically modified animals. And by genetically modified, we mean an animal that has had genes or DNA sequences taken from another animal or microbe and inserted into it's genetic sequence. And by regulated, we of course mean not labelled as what it is. For those of you playing along at home, this means that the government has taken the first steps toward allowing livestock that has been altered on a genetic level into the food supply, meaning that your fast food hamburger may have been tinkered with in a lab before it arrives on you plate.
In a sense, this is old news, or at least a foregone conclusion. Making live stock bigger, stronger and tastier has been a long term goal of agribusiness since there has been agribusiness - in a sense, biotech enhanced animals are just the next logical step from animals that are pumped full of growth hormones, treated with antibiotics from birth and fed on high fat, high protein diets that increase yield. But this next step is a doozy, transforming animals on the most basic level, making their bodies do think that nature never intended. Still, with the pre-eminence of genetically engineered food crops in today's market, it was only a matter of time until we saw GM livestock enter the marketplace.
Needless to say, bioengineering animals can produce positive results, such as pigs that whose manure is low in phosphates that contaminate water supplies around the world. No one would be sinking billions of dollars of research and development money into bioengineering projects if great (and profitable) results weren't a possibility. Likewise, it would be silly to assume that the people working on these projects are mad scientists, rubbing their hands together and cackling wildly about the havoc their transgenic creations will wreak upon the world.
But the FDA proposal as it stands reeks of boundless optimism, giving biotech companies the benefit of the doubt that all of these animals are safe for human consumption in the long run without actually feeding them to any humans. Until, that is, you buy you're next side of smoky, delicious bacon made from a pig that has stopped passing phosphate in it's stool.
As the proposal stands, which you can read here stands, FDA regulators would have to approve any genetically modified animal before it entered the food system. Companies like Massachusetts based Aqua Bounty Farms, which has is seeking a patent on a strain of Uber-salmon that it would like to sell to you would be required only to prove that the product they are selling is still almost entirely a salmon in every meaningful way. Perhaps most disturbingly, in the name of trade secrecy, no peer review of the animals concerned will be required.
On the plus side, think of all the incredible animals we'll soon be able to eat! Love the taste of veal but hate the dirty looks you get from fellow patrons and servers? Those are a thing of the past when older cows can be just as tender and succulent after a long, happy life on the range. Have you always wanted the low calorie goodness of chicken with the taste of a tenderloin? We can make that happen. And Kirk Cameron, after long last, will be free to dine on the moist, gamy flesh of the croco-duck. Truly, this is a brave new world.
In a sense, this is old news, or at least a foregone conclusion. Making live stock bigger, stronger and tastier has been a long term goal of agribusiness since there has been agribusiness - in a sense, biotech enhanced animals are just the next logical step from animals that are pumped full of growth hormones, treated with antibiotics from birth and fed on high fat, high protein diets that increase yield. But this next step is a doozy, transforming animals on the most basic level, making their bodies do think that nature never intended. Still, with the pre-eminence of genetically engineered food crops in today's market, it was only a matter of time until we saw GM livestock enter the marketplace.
Needless to say, bioengineering animals can produce positive results, such as pigs that whose manure is low in phosphates that contaminate water supplies around the world. No one would be sinking billions of dollars of research and development money into bioengineering projects if great (and profitable) results weren't a possibility. Likewise, it would be silly to assume that the people working on these projects are mad scientists, rubbing their hands together and cackling wildly about the havoc their transgenic creations will wreak upon the world.
But the FDA proposal as it stands reeks of boundless optimism, giving biotech companies the benefit of the doubt that all of these animals are safe for human consumption in the long run without actually feeding them to any humans. Until, that is, you buy you're next side of smoky, delicious bacon made from a pig that has stopped passing phosphate in it's stool.
As the proposal stands, which you can read here stands, FDA regulators would have to approve any genetically modified animal before it entered the food system. Companies like Massachusetts based Aqua Bounty Farms, which has is seeking a patent on a strain of Uber-salmon that it would like to sell to you would be required only to prove that the product they are selling is still almost entirely a salmon in every meaningful way. Perhaps most disturbingly, in the name of trade secrecy, no peer review of the animals concerned will be required.
On the plus side, think of all the incredible animals we'll soon be able to eat! Love the taste of veal but hate the dirty looks you get from fellow patrons and servers? Those are a thing of the past when older cows can be just as tender and succulent after a long, happy life on the range. Have you always wanted the low calorie goodness of chicken with the taste of a tenderloin? We can make that happen. And Kirk Cameron, after long last, will be free to dine on the moist, gamy flesh of the croco-duck. Truly, this is a brave new world.
Friday, September 19, 2008
The Big Bust
All too soon after a beautiful beginning, during which all of its proton beams fired true, super-cooled substances have brought about our downfall once more, and it will be spring before the Large Hadron Collider gets turned on again. After a blown transformer caused a leak of liquid helium inside the world’s largest particle accelerator, it became clear that the problem, inside a part of the collider that runs so cold it will take weeks to return to room temperature, would not be fixed by the time the CERN staff leaves on it’s winter vacation in November. Stupid helium.
This means that dark matter, Higgs bosons or tiny black holes will be created by the LHC until the spring of 2009, leaving us all wondering, for at least a few months more, just what IS the nature of the universe?
But on the other hand, the thing didn’t implode the universe on activation, so for right now, it’s probably safe to call the situation a wash.
This means that dark matter, Higgs bosons or tiny black holes will be created by the LHC until the spring of 2009, leaving us all wondering, for at least a few months more, just what IS the nature of the universe?
But on the other hand, the thing didn’t implode the universe on activation, so for right now, it’s probably safe to call the situation a wash.
R.I.P. - Irony in Politics
After 26 year Washington veteran John McCain accused Barack Obama of being a beltway insider this week, you might have thought the campaign couldn't get any more ironical.
You would have been wrong.
Recently, Republicans in Fairfax County, Virginia asked themselves a question. "Who do we know who can really reach out to minority voters in our area?" And the resounding answer came back - Confederate Flag waving, noose displaying former Senator George "Macaca" Allen, who will be a featured speaker at a minority voter outreach event this weekend. This is really the absolute limit - it's so balls out stupid that it's just sad - right before it crosses back over to being funny again. That this is the person the GOP thinks represents their best chance of pleading their party's case to voters, then they're is in even bigger trouble than we thought.
Meanwhile, if the Grand Old Party is looking for someone to help get out the youth vote in Florida, can I make a reccomendation? Former state representive Mark Foley, who has demonstrated an unparalleled skill in connecting and developing dialogue with young males - albeit not quite those of voting age.
You would have been wrong.
Recently, Republicans in Fairfax County, Virginia asked themselves a question. "Who do we know who can really reach out to minority voters in our area?" And the resounding answer came back - Confederate Flag waving, noose displaying former Senator George "Macaca" Allen, who will be a featured speaker at a minority voter outreach event this weekend. This is really the absolute limit - it's so balls out stupid that it's just sad - right before it crosses back over to being funny again. That this is the person the GOP thinks represents their best chance of pleading their party's case to voters, then they're is in even bigger trouble than we thought.
Meanwhile, if the Grand Old Party is looking for someone to help get out the youth vote in Florida, can I make a reccomendation? Former state representive Mark Foley, who has demonstrated an unparalleled skill in connecting and developing dialogue with young males - albeit not quite those of voting age.
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