Rolling Stone on John McCain

A longie but a goodie. It's a detailed and pretty brutal re-examination of McCain's biography, essentially portraying him as a reckless, ill-tempered carpetbagger with a Napoleonic complex and mild-to-moderate daddy issues.

It's pretty sobering to hear that no fewer than 3 Republican Senators are on the record stating that John McCain's temper is so unstable that it should disqualify him for the presidency. One of them says that the idea of John McCain becoming president "sends a cold chill down my spine." Wow.

'Tis the season

Just got my first conservative chain email in 4 years. Did you know that Cindy and John McCain are living embodiments of family values?

There was a, well, shall we say "lacuna" in the narrative around the time that a middle-aged John McCain left his disabled wife for a buxom blonde former USC cheerleader nearly 18 years his junior who also happened to be a fabulously wealthy heiress to a beer distributing fortune. I sent out a mass reply adding that part.

Hopefully after the election I'll be able to send the sender a recipe for humble pie, ripped off from the Food Network, of course.