Posts Tagged ‘Barack Obama’

The Oswald Cobblepot School of Debate

A forward link landed in my e-mail yesterday. It led me to a 13-second lark trying to portray John McCain as Oswald C. Cobblepot, better known as the Penguin, from Batman. You can see it here:

The Penguin is surely one of the more entertaining Batman villains–my favorite, if we’re working from the 1960s television [...]

15th October 2008 | Tags: , , , , , , , ,
Posted in irony, politics | 2 Comments »



Alaska, Factored

When I was in high school, an especially talented teacher brought the hammer down on all of us idealistic almost-voters. Our votes for president, she told us, wouldn’t count.
Easy for her to say. And not necessarily wrong. We were living in Alaska, which holds a whopping three electoral votes. And those three electoral votes are [...]

29th August 2008 | Tags: , , , ,
Posted in Alaska, politics, really? | 1 Comment »