Cake or Death. Oh, and We’re All Out of Cake.
Fafnir explains exactly why I can’t get excited by the Veepstakes:
an old rich white guy who likes to bomb brown people a rich old white guy who likes to bomb brown people an elderly gentleman of the Caucasian persuasion with a great deal of personal wealth who, in his spare time, likes to bomb brown people the manticore, a fanciful beast with the body of a lion, the tail of a scorpion and a deep personal commitment to prison reform a slightly younger rich white guy who likes to bomb brown people
Wouldn’t it be cool if this year, we actually had a choice consisting of different but qualified candidates who offered a wide selection of alternate ideas to various problems, rather than one idea for all problems from a mostly indistinguishable cast of rich white men? Yeah, maybe in ‘12.