Irony is deadly

Excellent Times op-ed about John McCain, “the first real postmodernist candidate.”

he's a butcher version of all the pundits & plays their

game better than they do

and it’s all so homoerotic/Fonzie/GIJoe/etc, too—forget Bush playing dress-up—McCain’s actually a real manly man with torture scars and everything.

Nice double meaning

“He’s a butcher,” alright: #1 Iraq War cheerleader, Military Commissions Act bait-and-switcher, and “Bomb Iran” tunesmith.

vastleft ; >

it’s so easy to trash McCain—the hugging Bush pic alone— and rerunning his statements about the religious right in 2000 compared to his opposite statements now, …

Of course, the media won’t immediately play and replay those like they will Clinton or Obama.

Ironing

Ironing can be deadly as well. Mangels were responsible for loss of limb and life back in the day, now they have safety features.