Stupid (and Elitist) Ad of the Week

The Ladders, a job site solely for jobs with salaries in excess of $100,000 per year... "for 100-K type people." Ad shows a horde of people trying to play on a single tennis court, annoying the actual player: "When everybody plays, nobody wins."

"The Ladders: Not only are our users richer than you, that makes them BETTER than you. Go back to the want ads, peasants!"

GRRRR.

Stupid (and Elitist) Ad of the Week

The Ladders, a job site solely for jobs with salaries in excess of $100,000 per year... "for 100-K type people." Ad shows a horde of people trying to play on a single tennis court, annoying the actual player: "When everybody plays, nobody wins."

"The Ladders: Not only are our users richer than you, that makes them BETTER than you. Go back to the want ads, peasants!"

GRRRR.

LYAN: Bush Earmark-Fighting Power-Grab, and the Tsunami Tuesday Polls...

... first, why Bush's order to the government not to obey Congressional earmarks is not only fatuous but unconstitutional...

... second, my best effort at expressing the polls from Super Tuesday in actual delegate counts.

To save you a bit of digging: with the polls as they are today (five states/territories not polled at all, four or five more with polls months old, only one poll so far after South Carolina)...

Clinton 923, Obama 638, Edwards 112.

Obama's closing the gap in California, but New York and Massachusetts are what's killing him as things stand. I'll update as new polls are made public.

And tomorrow I may just do the Republican side, focusing on the only two viable candidates left: McCain and Romney.

(And from what I read, McCain has the advantage in the polls... but Romney is the only GOP candidate besides Ron Paul who isn't flat broke, McCain included.)

LYAN: Bush Earmark-Fighting Power-Grab, and the Tsunami Tuesday Polls...

... first, why Bush's order to the government not to obey Congressional earmarks is not only fatuous but unconstitutional...

... second, my best effort at expressing the polls from Super Tuesday in actual delegate counts.

To save you a bit of digging: with the polls as they are today (five states/territories not polled at all, four or five more with polls months old, only one poll so far after South Carolina)...

Clinton 923, Obama 638, Edwards 112.

Obama's closing the gap in California, but New York and Massachusetts are what's killing him as things stand. I'll update as new polls are made public.

And tomorrow I may just do the Republican side, focusing on the only two viable candidates left: McCain and Romney.

(And from what I read, McCain has the advantage in the polls... but Romney is the only GOP candidate besides Ron Paul who isn't flat broke, McCain included.)

There are moments I go completely off the idea of democracy.

Such as when I read a quote from this article on msnbc.com...

Payroll supervisor Peggy Teske said she’d voted for Clinton.

“I’m all about Hillary.” In an interesting Freudian slip, she then said, “When she was the vice president, she was just so intelligent, knowing that she could read pages and pages of information and remember it and retain it. If she put together a speech she didn’t have to have the teleprompter, she didn’t have to have someone feeding her information.”

Vice. President.

Will somebody please tell me that there was a golden time in American history when the average voter wasn't so goddamn pig-ignorant of who their elected officials are, who they had been previously, and what their jobs were?

As for Hillary's worthless win in Florida today: not surprising. Name recognition ensures she'll win any contest where nobody campaigns actively. Furthermore, Clinton has the over-60 age bracket locked up... and Florida has the highest per capita concentration of retirees in the nation.

As for delegates in Florida and Michigan... call caucuses where everyone is allowed to campaign, pick the delegates based on the caucus outcome, and seat those delegates in Denver. Do not, under any circumstances, seat them based on two primaries where, in effect, Hillary was the only one allowed to campaign (or, at least, not punished for campaigning) while everyone else sat out or, in Michigan, had their names off the ballot entirely.

You want fair, Hillary? Then let's start talking about a re-do. Don't talk about how votes cast in two rigged elections should count.

There are moments I go completely off the idea of democracy.

Such as when I read a quote from this article on msnbc.com...

Payroll supervisor Peggy Teske said she’d voted for Clinton.

“I’m all about Hillary.” In an interesting Freudian slip, she then said, “When she was the vice president, she was just so intelligent, knowing that she could read pages and pages of information and remember it and retain it. If she put together a speech she didn’t have to have the teleprompter, she didn’t have to have someone feeding her information.”

Vice. President.

Will somebody please tell me that there was a golden time in American history when the average voter wasn't so goddamn pig-ignorant of who their elected officials are, who they had been previously, and what their jobs were?

As for Hillary's worthless win in Florida today: not surprising. Name recognition ensures she'll win any contest where nobody campaigns actively. Furthermore, Clinton has the over-60 age bracket locked up... and Florida has the highest per capita concentration of retirees in the nation.

As for delegates in Florida and Michigan... call caucuses where everyone is allowed to campaign, pick the delegates based on the caucus outcome, and seat those delegates in Denver. Do not, under any circumstances, seat them based on two primaries where, in effect, Hillary was the only one allowed to campaign (or, at least, not punished for campaigning) while everyone else sat out or, in Michigan, had their names off the ballot entirely.

You want fair, Hillary? Then let's start talking about a re-do. Don't talk about how votes cast in two rigged elections should count.