I’m never eating in a restaurant in British Columbia

Well, assuming I ever even go there.

And there’s more where that came from…

“I can understand why mankind hasn’t given up war. During a war you get to drive tanks through the sides of buildings and shoot foreigners – two things that are usually frowned on during peacetime.” — P.J. O’Rourke

The Democrats

So I’m obviously not a Democrat myself (read my about page), and was therefore a feeling a little glee at Bill Clinton demonstrating yet again that he’s a pathological liar. I mean, really. How could you get so many things wrong in a statement on the campaign trail? Twice? In one day? Aren’t these statements supposed to be planned out ahead of time? And if not, isn’t someone there watching, at least to tell him after the event, “Hey, you know what, Bill? Pretty much everything you said about Hil’s Tuzla incident was wrong, and you might want to drop that at the next stop, and maybe even issue a correction, ‘cuz that was actually starting to fade, and now you’ve just made it news again.”

Yeah, he did later come out and give a “my bad,” but not until he’d said it at two different places, and only after the missus heard about it and called him to say, “Knock it off.”

I was kinda thinking he’s trying to give the campaign away – maybe would rather keep living in New York, while his other half is down in DC. Easier to convince the interns no one will find out, and all that. And the split residences don’t look that bad when she’s a senator, but if she’s the president, well now, that’s a whole other story. So maybe he’s subconsciously putting these things out there to sabotage her run. He’s been nothing but a bull in a china shop for quite a while now, and this had the potential to reinforce the view any undecided Pennsylvania Dem’s might have had of the Clinton’s as inherently untrustworthy – that they have no real opinions on anything, but rather will say whatever they think will help them at this very moment, and then it’s on to the next “belief”.

And then Obama said this:

You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them…

And it’s not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.

Okay, that should be good for votes in Marin County, CA (just across the Golden Gate from San Francisco) where he said it, and maybe in Philadelphia, too, but I would think most of the rest of the state would pretty much have all been shoved pretty deep into the Clinton camp.

He’s trying desperately to undo the damage, but I suspect – without knowing anyone in Pennsylvania, and being very far removed from the description “professional political observer” – the polls next week may show a surge in Hil’s poll numbers.

And the playoffs are underway…

My Sharks didn’t get off to the best start, going down 2-0 in the first 5 minutes or so of game 1; sure, they got back to within 1 shortly after that, but still, they put themselves behind the eightball, and they never did quite climb out of that hole.

So you can imagine the 2-0 lead they took in the second period of tonight’s game made me much happier, even if I am stuck listening to it on the Internet, and catching highlights on VS, since they had last night’s game on and are showing Stars-Ducks right now.

Anyway, a much “Sharkier” game tonight, it sounds like. Here’s hoping Barry Melrose at ESPN and whichever one of the local guys it was here who also picked Los Tiburones to go all the way are right.

Stanley Cup, here they come!

Hello world!

Okay. So I’m looking for a theme to use, and will begin blogging in the next day or so, I suppose. Very much a personal blog, about whatever I feel sufficiently motivated to post on. My expectation is that it will tend toward politics and religion for the most part, but there’s no telling…