Wednesday, August 13, 2008 – Our posting of this tardy scamp has been held up for the past five days so that our riggers could lower a new mainframe down into the bunker. Naturally, we had to install new generators to meet the new, higher amperage requirements. But at last, we’re ready to proceed. Hell, we’re ready to take over the county — perhaps the country. Or so we’d like to think. Anyway, sorry for the delay.
Published in accordance with our fortnightly schedule on July 25, this affront to decency (Volume 252, No. 22, for all you archivists out there) recalled the optimistic gala announcement last spring, right here in Portsmouth, by Sen. John McCain (R-Hanoi), that he would run for President. We then contrasted that joyous occasion with the train wreck his campaign soon became. But, we concluded that despite the fact that he’s essentially unelectable, the way politics are done in this country he could very well still end up President.
On the inside we shed some light on a man who’s trying to unseat the duly-elected Member of Congress from New Hampshire’s First District, Carol Shea-Porter (D-Rochester). Sheldon Adelson, whose money provides most of the funds for the “Freedom’s Watch” ad campaign against the incumbent, seemed to us a curious person to be advising New Hampshire voters: this nation’s third richest plutocrat, a casino owner, and a man who made most of his many billions thanks to a cozy arrangment with Chinese Communist bureaucrats.
(For all you techie types out there, slogging and sloshing your way through the intertubes in search of something — anything — capable of breaking the stalemate — here’s a shot of the bottom center portion of the editor’s very own personal terminal. Yes, the screen’s made of bricks. This whole damn town’s made of bricks.)