Monday, September 6, 2004

Tony, Tony, Tony!

My longtime pal Tony Isabella has a fine online column that is mostly about comic books but occasionally about the less-real world of politics. The current installment praises this website but that's not the reason I'm telling you how good Tony's column is. It's just the reason I remembered to tell you that.

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Today's Political Rant

Nice to hear that Bill Clinton's heart bypass surgery apparently went well. Apart from the natural sadness if it did not, I'm not sure my view of humanity could withstand the celebrations of the "red meat" right-wingers if didn't make it. One wrote me that the former president's hospitalization was an "obvious stunt" timed to allow Clinton to make a dramatic reappearance — climbing out of a sickbed, no less — to stump for Kerry in the closing days of this campaign. I thought this was a pretty nutty theory but it makes a nice companion piece to another being advanced on some ultra-conservative websites; that Clinton deliberately timed his surgery do he'd have an excuse not to campaign for Kerry. The idea is that Clinton wants Kerry to lose, thereby leaving a clear field for Hillary in 2008. Somewhere out there, I'm sure there's someone who's convinced that Clinton is so devious that both are true; that he's simultaneously manuevering to help get Kerry elected and prevent it.

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Media Circus

A lot of you have written me to say that you can't get the video clips on the Comedy Central website to play. Neither could I, but I just installed Windows Media Player 10 and now they play fine. Install at your own risk. And don't write to me and say, "But I have a Mac." It reminds me of the years when I had Beta and all my friends had VHS.

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