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The Article: McCain Doesn’t Have a Prayer by Matt Taibbi

The Text: Phoenix, July 13th, Sunday morning. Thank God John McCain has declared that he wants to wallpaper the continent with new nuke plants, because now the chances are better that this wretched slab of hot, birdshit-covered asphalt they call a state will be blown to hell in an accident someday. I hate this place. Once the sun comes up on an Arizona weekend, nothing moves except the occasional elderly-piloted Buick floating boatlike in the direction of some hideous megachurch.

This morning I’ve come to one of those monstrosities, North Phoenix Baptist Church, to witness John McCain’s halfhearted offensive in his battle to win over the Christian right. On the stump, McCain talks about God less than any Republican politician in recent memory — certainly less than any Republican I’ve ever seen. The guy pitches a tent visible from a mile off whenever anyone so much as mentions the military; you can almost hear the dopamine surging into his bloodstream every time someone stands up in a town hall and begins a question by saying, “Hello, Senator, my husband was a Navy pilot. . . .” And he seems positively tumescent when talking about such horrors as Al Qaeda or Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. But his basic stump speech doesn’t contain a single line about God or religion. McCain is probably the first Republican in modern history to talk more about “green technology” than about his personal relationship with Jesus Christ.

“We have a government that is spending two and a half billion dollars a day in Iraq, essentially subsidizing new swimming pools for the contracting class in northern Virginia, at a time when heating oil and personal transportation are about to join health insurance on the list of middle-class luxuries. Home heating and car ownership are slipping away from the middle class thanks to exploding energy prices — the hidden cost of the national borrowing policy we call dependency on foreign oil, “foreign” representing those nations, Arab and Chinese, that lend us the money to pay for our wars.

And while we’ve all heard stories about how much waste and inefficiency there is in our military spending, this is always portrayed as either “corruption” or simple inefficiency, and not what it really is — a profound expression of our national priorities, a means of taking money from ordinary, struggling people and redistributing it not downward but upward, to connected insiders, who turn your tax money into pure profit.”

Dear Readers:

I was planning dramatic reenactments of events long past! Reinvigorating this blog with a shot of vitamin Alec. Alas, this blog is thoroughly broken: I cannot retrieve my email, video’s will not work, and various elements of design are fucked.

I apologize. I will come again and I will try to get this fucking thing working. But it may involve some bumpy steps and profuse profanity.

Sincerely yours,
Alec

I just heard a track off the new Beck album, it’s produced by Danger Mouse. Holy crap it’s awesome.

For some reason the BBC World anchor is tickled pink by the fact that while tobacco smoking is now illegal in Holland, weed smoking is now legal. I mean it is pretty funny, but it makes a lot more sense to me than the reverse. Honestly though, why don’t the Dutch, or really any place, have tobacco licenses for places, like they have weed/alcohol licenses?

Also, how weird is it that both Indiana and Virginia are polling Obama now?