Wow, we've been posting so infrequently that our older posts have finally just scrolled off the page. Gotta' reset some configuration settings.

For myself, I think I'm a bit burnt out and increasingly numb to what will happen during the last few weeks of the campaign. I'm not sure that I'm even going to watch the debate tonight. I'll Tivo it, and if I read about something spectacular happening I could go back and watch it. But, I don't think I can stomach the sheer mind-boggling inanity.

The current leadership of the Republican party is beyond the pale, bordering on evil. Their latest clever idea is to legislate the outsourcing of torture. I don't think much is beyond these guys, including outright theft of an election (again).

In addition, our national media is an embarrassment - complicit in the lies and the extreme trivialization of the political process. They are not serious and they do not deserve the influence they've acquired.

If I had to choose between a Kerry win and a 30-year-long stretch of time in which the media was competent, analytical, accurate, and serious about its job, I might be willing to put up with Chimpy McSmirk for another 4 years. After all, if the media were doing its job he'd already have been impeached.

So, like so many, I am bitter and cynical and don't have a whole lot to say about the strategies or tactics of the campaigns. The Bushies are doing what we expected - lying, cheating, and attempting to keep people from voting. The Democrats still can't convince their precious pundits to keep their 'helpful advice' out of the paper and their noses to the grindstone. Howard Dean is still, remarkably, fighting the good fight for a democratic resurgence in the future.

And I have little new insights to offer at the moment, if I ever had any to begin with.