So I've noticed a new activity the local Republicans have taken up. 

They have set up these flea market-esque tents in the major intersections around town to sell McCain yard signs and t-shirts.  

They have hot pink ones for Palin.

Anyway, what I found most humorous were the locations where they chose to set up shop.

One is in the parking lot of former (they moved down the block) and thus empty bail bonds office.

The other is in an abandoned gas station.

I know there's a metaphor there somewhere.

Way to sell your message, guys. 

"Jon Stewart, in his now famous Crossfire appearance, told the hosts of the then already long-since-decayed show that they were hurting America. It was not brilliant, or inspired; it was simply the truth, plainly spoken, which is the job our designated jesters have been tasked with for hundreds of years. For American political coverage, politics has become meta-sport: the actual results of governance matter not a goddamn ounce, only the arguments matter. Crossfire was not a politically serious show; it was reality television for the soulless walking dead of politics, those paid creatures that exist solely to promote Their Spin on Their Issue. There is no plot; there is no character development. There is never any evidence that, when later presented, results in one side or the other admitting error. It is a high school debate club gone tired and sour and aged. And the destruction of Crossfire did nothing to solve the problem, because every droning guest found ready refuge on a dozen other identical programs. America has been reduced to two disembodied heads, shouting at each other, while a steady stream of graphics drifts across the screen on all sides, the electronic equivalent of jingling keys for a toddler."

Amen.