This and That

MANIFESTO

At the end of one of the least productive weeks of the year (I've seen or heard more than one source opine that March Madness will finally push the US economy into a recession), virtually all the news has to do with the fact that Barack Obama is black—an item that apparently had gone unnoticed by the MSM heretofore.

It's exactly this kind of nonsense that's plagued presidential elections for too long, viz., Clinton's sexual indiscretions and, lest we forget, the deathless arguments that, yes, GWB is an idiot, but he'd be a nice guy to have a Diet Coke with. Glenn Greenwald frequently writes masterfully of the press's obsession with minutiae while ignoring issues that might have, you know, real substance, so I won't plow that field again except to say that I think, in my ingenuous way, that more and more outlets are at least noticing the real dangers the Bushies have wrought.

Who knows? Perhaps by November the voting public will understand—with no social safety net and $4 per gallon gasoline—that it really is the (war) economy, stupid.

On a cheerier note, HAPPY BIRTHDAY to DarLucky as he hits the big 3-0!