I’ve recently developed an acute addiction to This American Life. Everyday at work I listen to two (sometimes three) episodes of the show. I’m working my way backwards through the archives. I’ve reached the November 2000 episodes, and you know what that means: The 2000 Presidential Election. The memories of inane debates, bullshit “policies”, and “likability” all came flooding back. What an embarrassment. I remember how inconceivable it was to me that George W. Bush would be elected president. And then after the inconceivable was conceived (by some nightmarish magic by The Supreme Court), i consoled myself by thinking that in the end it really wouldn’t matter who ended up in the White House. Exxon and Wal-Mart would still be running things. Boy was i wrong. Well, i mean, Exxon and Wal-Mart probably are running things, but if we’re gonna have to listen to a load of crap everyday, at least it can be delivered by a guy who won’t lose an allied country every time he goes off script. What if he “wins” again?
New Angeles Monthly, June 2008
Weekend America, March 30, 2008
Los Angeles Times, March 13, 2008
Los Angeles Times, March 6, 2008
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