Is is just me

Or is anyone else creeped out by the "Country First" signs accompanied by full-throated chants of "U-S-A!  U-S-A!"?  All political rallies with chants and slogans, regardless of affiliation, border on the edge of creepiness simply because of they remind me (and others, I'm sure) of something out of Triumph of the Will.  Those "Country First" signs, though, with their implication of "My country, right or wrong," along with the jingoistic "U-S-A!" chant, make this year's RNC seem to come closer to a Nuremberg rally than any I've seen in a while.

Where have you gone, George Orwell? Our nation turns its lonely eyes to you

Don't be surprised if the Republicans stop talking about off-shore drilling.  From now on, they've been advised to refer to it as "deep-ocean exploration." 

Sometimes as a parent

I feel like I spend my days dodging bullets and getting hit point blank by mortar shells with nothing in between.

Has anyone else noticed

That the music for the McCain biography is ripping off the theme music of Dallas?

Favorite sign during McCain's spech

"The Mavrick"