As I said during the last election cycle, Leopold Bloom's campaign platform is still attractive -- even a century after it first appeared:

I stand for the reform of municipal morals and the plain ten commandments. New worlds for old. Union of all, jew, moslem and gentile. Three acres and a cow for all children of nature. Saloon motor hearses. Compulsory manual labour for all. All parks open to the public day and night. Electric dishscrubbers. Tuberculosis, lunacy, war and mendicancy must now cease. General amnesty, weekly carnival, with masked licence, bonuses for all, esperanto the universal brotherhood. No more patriotism of barspongers and dropsical impostors. Free money, free love and a free lay church in a free lay state.

Sounds better than anything that's being spouted tonight. About as realistic. Oobama should deliver his speech in Esperanto. Isn't he appearing in the Birds Nest tonight? Or am I thinking of some other ancient Greek spectacle? (Toga! Toga! Toga!) Are the Olympics still under way? I didn't get a chance to watch much of that either. Not that I wanted to. All I want is to catch a Mets game on TV -- they're in the penant race, you know. You'd think a network would want to pick up one of their games. Hell, even when I'm staying in NYC I can't tune in -- it seems none of the mid-town hotels has SNY on their TV offerings. The asshats. I don't think I've seen the Mets play since early July. If they don't make the playoffs I won't catch a game until next season.

And this is a way to keep people as fans? And don't try to sell me the mostly-blacked-out cable or internet packages: they suck.

So no Mets on TV tonight. Watched a new show on Food Network instead. They blew up grapes and eggs in a microwave. Cookie and Mojo found it funny.

Also, I'm waiting for more information about Hurricane Gustav. It is such an excellent name. Not quite like the names Bazzukajoe proposed, but really good nonetheless. Really good.