Hockey mom
-Headline of the day-
"Palin Booed at Hockey Game."
The most famous member of America's newest made-up demographic -- hockey moms - isn't superpopular with another, more actual demographic -- hockey fans. The New York Times reported that McCain's running mate was "greeted by resounding (almost deafening) boos" as she dropped the puck at the opening game of the Philadelphia Flyers. And, no, dropping the puck doesn't mean you're clumsy, it's the hockey equivalent of throwing the first pitch. So she wasn't booed for sucking on the rink, but just for sucking in general.
Someone seemed to have planned for this sort of reception, however, since the Wilmington News Journal reports the boos were "almost immediately drowned out by blaring, bombastic music."
In related news, pit bull owners aren't fond of her, either. (Political Wire)
-Quote of the day-
"No candidate has ever lost with a lead like this since modern polling began in 1936."
George Stephanopoulos writes that snippet for ABC News in analyzing a new ABC News/Washington Post poll. According to their polling, McCain is down 10 nationally, Bush has a higher disapproval rating than Nixon, and 90% think the country's headed in the wrong direction.
90%? I had no idea that 10% of the population were repo men.
The good news for McCain is that bad polling numbers never actually killed anyone. And, seriously, that's the only good news. (ABC News)
-Happy Columbus Day!-
"They . . . brought us parrots and balls of cotton and spears and many other things, which they exchanged for the glass beads and hawks' bells. They willingly traded everything they owned . . . They were well-built, with good bodies and handsome features . . . .They do not bear arms, and do not know them, for I showed them a sword, they took it by the edge and cut themselves out of ignorance. They have no iron. Their spears are made of cane . . . They would make fine servants . . . .With fifty men we could subjugate them all and make them do whatever we want."
-Christopher Columbus
"Let us in the name of the Holy Trinity go on sending all the slaves that can be sold."
-Same dickhead
"Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides . . . .they ceased to procreate. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and famished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desperation . . . .In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk . . . and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fertile . . . was depopulated . . . .My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write . . . ."
-Bartolomé de las Casas on life for indigenous people after Columbus
Now let's all have a fucking parade... (A People's History of the United States)
