Moose meat is a good meat; esp. when it’s well-prepared, although dressing the bony creature’s no mean feat; esp. when there’re still black flies and heat—T. Roosevelt

I know there are some who say most Alaskans are basically the dullest, even a seemingly inbred people, reminiscent of those none-too-bright individuals who tamed (and poisoned?} the non-inclusive towns of the early West, and whose take on Sarah Palin, the Alaskan state governor, and titular Republican nominee for V-P, is that of a compassionate but largely insensitive (unaware?) woman, at least to the wider world, typical to the money-grubbing bourgeoisie endemic to that state, and again is none-too-bright as she (and others) foolishly spend so much energy and what intelligence they have, such as it is, in merely combating that Northern-most latitude.

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I do think, however, John McCain pulled off a stunning PR “scoop” when he pre-empted Barack Obama’s afterglow moment with the morning-after announcement of her as his running mate. And that’s just part of what Obama may ultimately pay for sullenly (and one might say stupidly so) refusing to take on a more than willing (and capable) Hilary Clinton as his v-p candidate. And that he may even pay the ultimate price of losing the upcoming election due to his and his closest advocates’ bias towards her, and, unfortunately from some peoples’ inference, towards women. Sorry, folks, no do-overs at this level.

Now, I realize this doesn’t say a lot for American’s voting public, but then there’s little one can add about that rather sad group, or would be one if they didn’t leave so much human tragedy in their wake, which is largely uninformed, and, worse yet, culpable. And I emphasize “voting” public as opposed to the enraptured truants who won’t vote at all. Sure, Obama has his limitations—and perhaps even more than we’re aware of—but the thought of him possibly losing to John McCain boggles the mind. As many, esp., in what should be a pushover year following the horrors of Bush II, to an elementary teacher’s child, and I don’t care how many 3 am calls she rose to for the moose hunt with her dad. That’s all well-and-good, but she has the political probity, acumen and actions of a former 2nd Runner-up Miss Wisella in the Alaskan beauty contest. In the 21stC? In what may turn out to be only a handful of viable years left to humanity to get its act together to make the free market work for its people and the planet.

As I said elsewhere, I’ll be voting for Ralph Nader (again), for his “lost cause” is our lost cause. … I mean, if we don’t get our heads out of the moose’s arse soon!? … And, we wont; and we can’t … bound, as we are, in the wet rawhide of our own devising, as the polar bears continue to drown this summer for want of an ice pack.

I simply can’t bring myself to vote for one slight fracture that makes up the Duopoly {as Nader has coined it) over the other; while either party, unfortunately, is captive to Big Capital and its monolithic components of a complex that includes,but is not limited to the huge American military, special interests led, but not limited to, Big Pharma, Big Oil, natural gas, coal & nuclear energy, Big Media & Madison Avenue advertising and lobbying, Big Agri-business and the billions in tax subsidies they receive, Big Ignorance and the failed American education systems, including but not limited to the Ivy League & quickly descending hierarchy of both upper and lower institutions, Big Endemic Poverty and its millions of abject subjects, Big Money & its death grip on the dollar, Big Corruption of our public lands, particularly, but not limited to, Big Ranching and Big Timber and Big Mining, and, to return full circle, Big Politics with its Big Machines.

P.S. Lest we forget: The Big Sleep of the Congress, voting for the Biggies’ pet issues like automatons, and the Big Kahuna and his unlimited prerogatives known euphemistically as a “unitary” Presidency, and, last but not least, Big Judiciary, which, for more than a decade now, has outstripped the mediocre ability of what should be an honest history to keep up with its hi-jinks.

P.P.S. One last note: Big Tax codes that both protects and promulgates the Big Capitalist gains of all the aforementioned …