My World of Warcraft server is down, so here is my week in review:
The Kos Flap
I believe this helps us. I say, let the wingers prolong the Armstrong Williams story with their really, really weak KOS / Armstrong "expose".
In the long term, they have a weak ass talking point. In the long term, we have Armstrong Williams, FCC investigations, possible criminal investigations, a flood of FOIA requests and the smell of wingnut sweat in the air.
I feel good about it.
Social Security and FDR
Point: Bring on the FDR commercials, ya freaks. Bush has a powerful and adept propaganda machine at his disposal, but the Republicans are nervous. I won't predict that Bush will fail, because he has fooled me too often in the past, but his push for privatization could very well accelerate his lame duck status by several months.
Counterpoint: On the other hand, I still feel pretty skeptical about the Democratic Leadership. I see promising signs, what with budding war rooms and all, but it's hard to pray for a homerun, when we can't even get a base hit. Someone please, please, please prove me wrong. I want to believe.
Torture
Did the Gonzales hearings happen this week or last week? I can't remember, but here is my main point:
"Torture is wrong."
Why is this such a difficult concept?
Buy Blue Is Back
www.buyblue.org
I love this idea. Buy products from blue companies, not red companies.
Why do I love this idea?
If I launch a major attack against a political person of some note, and it's not an election year, the dude won't care.
Let's say I win the lottery tomorrow, buy a crate of Fritos and PBR, and then launch a $20 million ad campaign against ... oh I dunno ... Tom Delay. Let's say I successfully manage to lower his approval rating by 5%. Or even 10%. What will be the result? He won't care, because it isn't an election year and he is a protected incumbent.
But let's say I take that same $20 million dollars and launch a campaign against Hallmark cards for creating a PAC that supports Republicans more than 3:1. And let's say I reduce their market share by a mere 5%.
Hallmark, folks, would shit a brick. Publicly traded companies are up for election every single day. The CEO of a publicly traded company could accidentally use his salad fork to test the tenderness of his tartar and his company's stock would fall 20% just because the stock market is the most insanely irrational and rock cocaine oriented institution on the planet.
Now, Buy Blue isn't launching multi-million dollar ad campaigns, but I am trying really hard to make my point in the funniest possible way. If we support efforts from folks like Buy Blue and if we get this baby rolling, we can help these Red Companies miss their guidance numbers and man, let me tell you, that will keep some of those fat boys up all night.
So I dig this idea.
Aqua Teen Hunger Force
Greatest cartoon ever ... in the last couple years.
World of Warcraft
Fun, somewhat broken, pretty.