what? what?

Dear John McCain,

Seriously? SERIOUSLY? I don't know whether to be flummoxed or insulted. You couldn't even go with KAY BAILEY HUTCHINSON if you wanted a lady that bad?


HUH,
me

ETA: in my Morbid Curiosity, I was wondering what Jezebel had to say about it and what the PUMAs had to say about it. Jezebel says nothing yet, but from the main PUMA blog:

"I don’t know if this is enough for McCain to get my vote but, as I said in a comment THIS nominations is the opposite of Obama’s traditional finger-in-my-eye. And the experience is refreshing. Also, as a librarian, I have to say that I like the way she looks."

OH MY GOD, WAY TO UNDERMINE YOUR ENTIRE POINT, MA'AM. You LIKE THE WAY SHE LOOKS, SO YOU MIGHT VOTE FOR HER.

*FACEPALM*

ETA DOS: Okay, a quick run-around on Kos tells me that nobody can win? You know why? Because regardless of how she is not qualified to be #2, they're talking about how she used to be runner-up beauty queen. VPILF has already been thrown out there.

/MASSIVE AMOUNTS OF RAGE AT HER AND FOR HER./

(sorry for getting so suddenly political there, I just... ahhhh.)

(no subject)

Fuck you Merlin Mann, I'm the woman next door who's crying in her bathroom with pepperidge farm. or, you know, with her in spirit.

/random non-sequitor based entirely on my internet consumption and state of mind

deep, calming breaths; deep, calming breaths

So I CAPSLOCKED a lot this morning over McCain's Veep choice. (side note: why don't we do the runner-up in primary automatically gets to be Veep anymore? Seems a lot less "deemed from on high by the possible next president" and more "hey, this is the other person who really wanted this job! And a lot of people seemed to like them!". If if worked that way, we'd get Clinton and Romney as VPs. And that'd be hilarious for a debate. I'll have to look into this.)


And the more I thought about it, how my initial reaction went from "huh? did someone talk this over with McCain before he made that decision?" to "I'm very uncomfortable with the assumption that women would be automatically wooed with the possibility of voting for a female vice president without knowing who she is " (emphasis very very important) to blackout rages over a variety of anecdotal (yes, anecdotal... but honestly sometimes that gives me the greatest pause) evidence that this is possibly true for more than an extreme minority of undecided (not Hillary supporters, not dyed in the wool Republicans, undecided) voters would want to do just that. Say "I'm making history by voting for a woman in the national executive! Wooo go women!" (Meanwhile, Ferraro just shakes her head and rolls her eyes). That, to me, is far more disturbing than whatever Rachel Palin's political views are. That hurts deep.

So, laying aside the "experience" issue (from what I've seen on TV today, talking heads on both sides are racking up some bizarre logics to attack the other on this point.). Laying aside Alaska and beauty queen and whatever sort of things are going to be thrown around this weekend, the question remains: who is Sarah Palin? Do you know? Does anyone who says today "this changes my vote!" ,either way, know?

Isn't that a fucking scary way to choose someone in the executive branch? VP or not, isn't that a scary way to elect anyone? I'm not even talking "hey,that person is a Democrat! And I general agree with Democrats!" way. At least that's more informed than "LADY! WOOO! VOTING!!!" That's TRL-style voting kids, and I adored TRL, but that was before I could vote in a political election.

I'm going on a fact-finding mission y'all, I'm going to look high and low, sources I agree with and sources I don't, I'm going to wade deep - because if nothing else, I don't want to tick off my absentee ballot with a ounce of "I should probably take my own advice" lingering. I made that mistake already this year. I can't stop people from not paying attention. But whenever anyone tells me who they are going to vote for, I'm going to ask (with hopefully, the most unjudgmental voice I can muster) why?

Because regardless of your reason, you should probably be aware of what it is.

Dear Flist,

Why?

love,
me.

ETA: I'm also pretty excited about reading this book (True Enough: Learning to Live in a Post-Fact Society), because it speaks to a lot of concerns I have about the internet and my possible chosen profession.

from the other side of the internets

• 12:48 Must. remove.self. from. internet. #
• 16:09 @notpoetry Yes, see that was my first reaction too. Then I went on the interwebs to see what the reaction was from all places. CUE RAGE. #
• 16:57 in better news: I did write this morning, and I did make brownies this afternoon. Excuse me while I go drown my sorrows in milk. #

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