Psychopolitik 2.0

Been deflating a bit.  No worry.

To start off with, here’s something silly (or at least, something that should be seen as silly): I found this funny, lighten up y’all.  Besides, fried chicken hits the spot, regardless of what race you are.

I don’t just link to people I agree with on everything, as you may know.  But I do keep it to people who, if I would disagree, I could see myself having a reasonable discussion about it.

The moment I started typing this, I had 3 blogs in my blogroll that are written by self-described “conservatives”: Cunning Realist, Cynics Unlimited (we’re talking Canada w/ that one though, keep in mind…), & Andrew Sullivan.

Well, read this, then look over there again.

Food should go in one end and out the other.  My body failed its biology tests for a few days, but I’m OK now, I think.

I think I finally figured out why the campaign ads Google spits out in the sidebar* are all McCain, despite my interpretation of this election as Middling Status Quo Guy vs Old Dude That May Be Insane:

1) Obama’s people value message discipline to an almost paranoid degree.  Google ads are fairly random, so that’s a no-go.  McCain’s people really don’t seem to give a fuck, so Google ads are a go for them.

2) Keywords.  I don’t talk about Obama much because frankly I don’t see much of substance to talk about with him, and see that as in a way the whole point of his campaign: having abandoned the few positions where he differed in any meaningful sense, he’s effectively running as the Generic Democrat that was trouncing the Generic Republican in the polls back when the campaign season first started — which is working.

Pick one, and add to it that the 3rd parties don’t have the money for much, at least as far as I can tell.

(* - as for any possibility of directly selling ad space, I dunno and don’t really care.  Besides, I can’t tell if I get enough traffic to justify it, and it’d probably break compatibility with the theme anyway.  I don’t want to change the look of the site just to stick an ad over there that I like, that’d only be an option if a shit-hot designer fell into my lap that could figure out purely based on content — visual design ain’t my strength — a look that would say what you’re getting here better than the tagline already does, without bashing anyone in the skull with it.)

Yeah, I’m still here.  Been busy the past few days, kinda deflating as a result.

By now the following should be common knowledge:  I don’t vote for philosphical reasons, and just because something shows up in the ad bar does not mean I support it.  That aside, I’ve noticed something odd in the Google advertizing.  Once in awhile it’ll spit out a presidential campaign ad, but (at least on my end) thus far it has ALWAYS been a McCain ad.  Why, I have no idea.

To the regular visitors: Has anyone seen it bring up any others, whether for Obama, Barr, or anyone else that’s running?

I notice some bloggers have links to their Amazon.com wishlist on the sidebar. Apparently some people actually do buy their favorite writers stuff. Even if people don’t you might be curious to know what I want, for brain-picking purposes, so…

^^^^When I next run across my admin, that’ll be somewhere on the side.  Most recent one I added to it is this book on home-brewing beer.

If it makes it feel less crass, my birthday was this month.

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-Admin