Observed, Politics
15
Oct 08

One Angry Dude

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One Angry Dude

I’m glad the presidential debates have ended. Too much anxiety watching them, though they served their purpose in educating people about both candidates.

After the second debate, I read that eighty-six percent of Fox News viewers believed John McCain had won. That statistic may have been the second-most revealing element of the entire campaign. Objectively speaking, Barack Obama would have had to poop his pants and run awkwardly to the restroom to lose by that margin. So the number helps define the ideological zealotry of the Fox crowd and the blind irrationality it causes.

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Florida, Observed, Portland, Recommended books
04
Jun 08

The Rapture: This is only a test

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I don’t believe in the Rapture, though the concept intrigues me spiritually and intellectually. Perhaps that’s why a man’s suit caught my eye yesterday, abandoned on the steps of a downtown Portland church. A fine-looking suit with a subtle glen-plaid pattern. I considered inquiring at the Portland Korean Church, SE 10th and Clay. But if I knocked, what would I ask when the door opened? Is the suit only a test, like those we hear on the radio about the emergency warning system? If this had been a real Rapture. . .

I looked around, wondering whether the suit owner had zipped off on a practice spin for the June 14th World Naked Bike Ride. No luck. Was there really a Superman, and Clark Kent couldn’t find a phone booth? Had I missed an alien abduction? Or missed the Rapture itself, and this lone empty suit signaled bad news for Portland — the select few here are very few indeed?

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