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John McCain's 2000 campaign for president was nicknamed the "Straight Talk Express." The theory was that he was going to give people what everyone assumes they might want: a politician that speaks frankly and truthfully about the government. He failed to do so in 2000 and lost his parties nomination. He's running again in 2008, and again he's failing spectacularly to live up to his campaigns moniker. It was kind of to be expected, since he was a politician, but still it's still a sorry reflection on our political climate. Even a terrible ordeal in a Viet Cong prisoner of war camp couldn't persuade someone to be honest to their constituents.

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I have something in the works about the recent political "debates" on (MS)NBC. It's about Gravel and Kucinich and how both of them kinda get it and kinda don't. It's about how scary it is that seemingly smart people in the so called liberal party have to appear hawkish in order to be popular. It's about the ridiculous worship of Ronald Reagan, and how 9 of 10 Republican nominees outright disapprove of allowing abortions at all and 3 of 10 don't "believe" in evolution. It's about how ridiculous it is that questions about evolution are even posed like that in this country; as if evolution or science in general is something that is to be believed and not understood, this really frightening push (from both directions) to appear to take things more on faith than reason.

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