Wednesday, October 27, 2004

Howdy folks---the blogosphere seems to be undergoing an attack not unlike the dastardly ambush by the Cylons in the opening sequence of Battlestar Galactica. Moo knew is down, as is blogger, so normally this would mean the LLamabutchers would be ........, umm, caught myself there, would be silenced.

Fortunately, our old pal Jen has offered we refugee LLamas a temporary home, at least so we don’t start getting the shakes too bad from the inability to get the blog fix.  Last time mu.nu went down, it was tricky for me there, sitting in the back of the bus, holding Robbo, telling him everything would be okay once we got to Florida....

Anyhoo, there are a number of signs of PANIC!!!! taking hold on the left which I think bodes well for Dubya next Tuesday.  First of, some idiot tried to run over Katherine Harris in Florida today. Last time I checked, I didn’t see any news reports about desparate Republicans trying to run over Al Sharpton (although come to think of it, that would play some real havoc with the suspension and shocks, no?).  True, when Mike Moore came through awhile back I called the hotel and ordered room service for his room of an entire roasted pig plus a case of ho-hos, but hey, assisted suicide is the ethical thing, right?

The other sign of desparation is on the con law professor list-serv I subscribe too.  Let’s just say I’ve never seen panties in such a twist before.  The best way to describe their ideology is “Neo-Breckinridge-ism” i.e. espousing the approach of Democratic Candidate John Breckinridgein 1860, threatening violence if the result of the election is anything short of victory for their guy.  Of course, to me there’s nothing quite as funny as pacifist gun-control advocates threatening political violence--what are you going to do?  Throw copies of Mike Bellesiles’ Arming Amerika at us?  Puh-leeze!

Thanks Jen!