got a haircut
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my friend Megan, the photographer from work, told me she wanted to photograph me when I cut my hair. so I did today, and before I did I called her, and she came over and took a bunch of pictures. I think they came out very well. and I’m nothing if not vain, so click on my two heads if you’d like to see more of them.
ok. so, ok, Ralph Nader. Ralph Nader, man!
I think it’s been well-documented that I like Nader. he’s redundant, a broken record, and incredibly unappealing to the eye, but I don’t doubt for a second that he’d be a better president than Obama or McCain. or he would have been in ’04, than Bush or Kerry. or Bush or Gore before that.
but unlike the campaigns of past, the fine, young ass has left Mr. Nader’s base, and there’s a myriad of reasons that no one listens to him anymore. and you can see it during his speeches, like I did. it was me, the local media, and a bunch of aging hippies. the crowd was, well, old. and there’s Nader, saying the same shit, only four years older. both candidates are corporate candidates. more of the same. etc.
that’s not entirely true. I think, unlike 2004, Obama has staked his claim on leaving Iraq. if he doesn’t, the country’ll fucking skin him. but the fire, that used to be in Nader’s speeches, it was gone. I was bored. Nader looks drained, like he needs to take a vacation.
you know, Nader isn’t crazy. he, and everyone on his campaign staff, knows full well he’s not winning anything, but that’s not the point of his candidacy. he’s doing it because if his set of campaign issues are completely different than McCain’s and Obama’s. you don’t have to agree with them – I don’t, not with all of them — but they’re fucking different. that’s the point.
it’s ridiculous that there are only two serious options in the presidential election. a nation, of 300 million, and the election is four months off, and I can already narrow it down to two people that it could possibly be.
there’s a lot being left out. Bob Barr is running. Cynthia McKinney’s gonna be the Green Party candidate. and Ralph Nader’s gonna be dead some day, probably soon. hopefully, the next prototypical third party candidate won’t be treated with such vitrol.
and Eric Alterman is still a prick.
