Silly Season - 2008

Kim and I are watching this presidential race with detatched morbid curiosity. This is the first presidential race we've witnessed from outside the fish tank of the horrible US news media. Being outside the country certainly provides a different perspective of the state of the country, our problems and potential solutions. The 24 hour news cycle on cable networks generate a ridiculous amount of inane comments and manufactured hype that ends up on YouTube or overtly partisan blogs like Huffington Post. It is no wonder that the majority of my generation and younger turn to the Daily Show and Colbert Report to help frame the really important stuff from all this noise.

Regarding the election, I personally think if McCain were to win this election that the remainder of the free world would help build the border fences the GOP is pushing so hard to finish. In their minds it would not to keep illegal aliens from getting in the US but to keep US citizens from getting out and infecting the world with their stupidity... and I'm a registered Republican.