Okay, it's really only one meme I've got here, but I think it's worth spreading on the far right in the hopes that they stay home in November. In a nutshell, it is:

John McKerry.

Yeah, I know it's dishonest and undeservedly cruel to John Kerry, but the right hates John Kerry, and I think it'll work. Learn how and why below the fold....

Apparently the 'conservative' "American" John McCain idolizes those effete effeminates across the Pond, according to Salon.com:

Sen. McCain keeps saying, "If France can produce 80 percent of its electricity with nuclear power, why can't we?" Wrong question, Senator. The right question is: Why would we? Energy efficiency and renewables are the key to affordable, carbon-free electricity. They should be a focus of national energy and climate policy. Not nukes.

Dear Mister President,

Thank you for attacking Barack Obama. Although he is a weak, appeasing liberal and possibly of terrorist descent, he is also a cunning and ruthless adversary of good, old-fashioned, red-blooded American conservatives like John McCain. However, I am sure you understand that Johnny-boy (That's what you call him at Republican barbecues, right? Seriously, do you guys ever barbecue pork or chicken?) can't take on this threat alone.

It feels like the end of an era. The dollar and the geopolitical economic system that has backed it up since Nixon is in free fall, commodity prices are skyrocketing, and all we know about the current economic crisis is that we know nothing. Obama has redefined politicking, with every contrived scandal from madrassas to Bittergate falling flat. The pundits, highly-paid consultants, and sound-bite spin doctors, once masters of the political universe, are fading into ineffectuality and irrelevance. The old system is dead.

I am not a historian. I took few history classes in college, and in the ones that I did I focused on Byzantine history, not American (nor do I wear a flag lapel pin....). Thus, my historical thinking has not really been rigorously trained, nor have any theories of mine been exposed to the harsh light of questioning. I have not been vetted, so to speak.

This might be the first part of a series. In the next part I will try to put together a political economy of the various party systems in U.S. history, and maybe how they match up with generational cycles. If I feel like it. Anyway, more after the fold....

     Truth be told, I've stopped caring about the primaries. Whoever will win will win, and I will gladly support them in the general election. My California primary vote is still undecided. Whomever the nominee picks for VP won't matter than much, because our candidates all strong-minded (unlike Bush) and unlikely to die in office (unlike McCain, or Giuliani).

I just saw a terrifying commercial for Miraplex™. It eases "restless legs syndrome", but apparently it causes "gambling, sexual and other intense urges."  What the fuck? What is wrong with us? What the hell are "intense urges"? Is this Ecstasy that makes you want to gamble? Or do these intense urges get violent? Why do we need drugs to cure us of NOT WALKING ENOUGH?