yeah i stole that from somewhere, big whoop, you wanna fight about it. i’m still torn between hillary and obama, and i think it comes down to pragmatic rationality (clinton actually having experience with the painfully debilitating bureaucracy of transnational democratic capitalism and maybe having a chance of navigating it) and charismatic hope (obama who might actually inspire people, and not being such an easy target to the republican attack machine). but with regards to the whole race-gender thing, isn’t it great that hillary is in many ways the cold-hearted, rational one (traditionally ‘masculine’ traits) and obama the emotional, irrational one (traditionally ‘feminine’ traits)? either way, whoever wins would be foolish not to pick the other as their running mate. for the sake of the fuckin planet they better run together.

but holy fuck did the world dodge a bullet with giuliani dropping out, that man is a nutbar:

i don’t know the ins and outs of the criminal justice system, but isn’t this a hate crime? i don’t mean just in it’s absurd racism with its characterization of “a perverted people”, but in its shocking depravity? like that is some messed up shit.

and giuliani was considering cheney as a running mate! fuck! cheney is like some sort of unkillable super-villain… in alien versus predator versus cheney, alien mother’s blood might be slightly more acidic than cheney’s, and predator is maybe slightly uglier, but cheney will shoot you right in the fuckin face, man.

so mccain looks to be the republican nomination, and even though he’s all pro-iraq and pro-tax cuts for the rich, i kinda have a soft spot for the dude for being somewhat of a moderate (by republican standards), not being a crazy evangelical (at least not yet), and for giving a frank interview about the military-industrial complex in why we fight.

man i wish canadian politics were this exciting. dion and harper are such a bore fest. and while i think layton is quite dynamic (especially after having met him and watching him in action), he’s not lighting any fires either. there are certainly some advantages to our boring system, in which policy is given more priority than personality (as chomsky says, in the american system, “The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television”), in an era of increasing political apathy, we need some new blood in canadian politics. this is no country for old men.