The smarmy bastards at the ProJo predictably engaged in a juvenile waste of space recognized even from back in Usenet times as pathetic: the spelling flame. Yes, they disssed Barbra Streisand's spelling. But really, they need to quit throwing rocks at the thin glass walls of their own house. After all, this is the paper that used "white-color criminal" in a headline some time ago, as well as "fracus" in one more recently.

Pinhead Achorn has written the same column yet again, gleefully thinking voters might actually toss out some of the bums in the General Assembly for once. He notes that so many seats are going unopposed (I told you, Phil West), but it should be relatively simple to do a write-in campaign, right? Well, I could be wrong about this since it's possible that things will be different in the general election than in the primary, but, in the primary, you had to request a special ballot this time if you wanted to write someone in (unlike last time, when it was incredibly easy and so any number of fictional characters were written in against Cianci, none, of course, more fictional than Joe DeLuca although Joanne Gee-a-ninny does come in a very close second.) If this is the case in the general election this time as in the primary, it will be because the people at the Board of Elections were pissed as hell at having to tally all of those fake votes by hand and changed the rules to save themselves some work. But, given that they are so understaffed that they could not get election results onto the web in the primary after promising to do so, I don't begrude them much. Nonetheless, knowing that Achorn lives in either Tiverton or Little Compton, I wonder if he realizes that he may be in one of very few districts with an unopposed Republican. Whatever would he do? Follow his Republican heart or smarmily write someone in on principle? Never mind, I know the answer. Competition is only needed for incumbents of one party, right? Or perhaps he lives in the other possible district, where he will happily vote for a revolting Republican instead of a very good Democrat. Jerk. Newsflash, moron: we vote on multiple issues, not just your pet one. But thanks for playing. Actually, no, we'd rather you not.

Speaking of stupid Republicans, Carcieri has a new ad out that uses Austin Powers fonts and cheesy gimmicks. The problem is that he looks and sounds like Al Franken, so it seems too much like it's some kind of joke instead of cutely making his point (whatever it is.) Still, so far this campaign season, nothing beats the Sheldon Whitehouse attack ad featuring old footage of Myrth York looking like a 1950's bar butch. Who knows what the ad was about? They ran it just to use that footage!
posted by Mad Anne Rackham at 7:37 AM