Like shooting mallards in a barrel... New shows for The CW... Prediction: Joel Stein is out of a job in three weeks. As an anti-war wuss with family in the military, it's easy enough for me to see where he goes wrong, but he does raise some interesting ideas that are almost never said in public, so more power to him... The new Democratic strategy: root for the GOP to pick the worst possible leaders, so we look half decent in comparison. But won't real outside-the-beltway Americans actually suffer more under the worst possible leaders? Hey, that kind of empathy doesn't win elections the way cynical backroom maneuvering does... Jake alerts me to a wingnut movement to speculate on Iraqi dinar. I have no idea what it means, but I have a feeling that money would be better spent on another pair of rose-colored glasses.
