Tuesday's Brains: Shrunken by rage

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Quote of the day:

McCain isn't confident that conservative policies and personal experience can win, given the ruinous state of the nation after eight years of Bush. So he has made a fateful decision: he has personally impugned Obama's patriotism and allows his surrogates to continue to do that. By doing so, he has allied himself with those who smeared him, his wife, his daughter Bridget, in 2000. Those tactics won George Bush a primary--and a nomination. But they proved a form of slow-acting spiritual poison, rotting the core of the Bush presidency. We'll see if the public decides to acquiesce in sleaze in 2008, and what sort of presidency--what sort of country--that will produce.

Obama is not the Antichrist

The Washington Post informs us that despited the "horned-O" logo (pimped by Fox New talking orifice Glenn Beck) and McCain's "The One" ads, Barack Obama is, according to the experts of Left Behind, probably not the Antichrist.

The cost of antivaccination.

Mark Crislip goes through the list of what we would suffer if we were to halt vaccinations of children. He points out, with sarcasm (that some of his commentors even missed), that he's an infectious disease specialist: every vaccinated child is a hit to his wallet.