Posted Monday, February 23, 2004 by Gene

Nader announces his ego is planning to run for President in 2004
One of Mr. Nader's Big Messages from 2000, is that as long as the Democratic and Republican parties are still catering to special interest groups, the people aren't really represented by either set-- so running against both is like saying they are more or less the same. Surely-- after four years of Dubya's rapacious domestic policies and fear-mongering international behavior-- he doesn't still believe this, right? I mean, Bush and Gore may have run similar campaigns in 2000, in the sense that both tried to appeal to the middle-of-the-road undecideds, but AFTER the election, Bush showed that exactly nothing that came out of his mouth while campaigning meant a goddamn thing. (Which is not to say that anything that has come out of his mouth since the election has meant a goddamn thing either.)

If Nader still thinks donkeys and elephants look the same to him, he is seriously disturbed. And he can't possibly think his candidacy is sending a message of any greater value than "write about me, I'm lonely."

Which is not to say...
...he will have an impact this time around. The Dems are too pissed off at the Bushalytes to get distracted.

Speaking of delusions of grandeur
Arnold Schwarzenegger would like foreign-born U.S. citizens to have a chance to run for President. He added "I can fuck up the nation's economy at least as well as President Bush. Just look at my record."

Meanwhile, Carrie Bradshaw has another Cosmopolitan
Yes, Sex and the City has finally ended. So far as I know. I thought the show ended last year, to be honest. In fact I remember writing about the end of the show in this blog at least a year ago. So either they were exaggerating when they said the show was going to end a year ago, or one of us doesn't understand the meaning of the phrase "series finale."

Anyway, it's about time. Popular shows are popular in part because they manage to resonate with the culture at that particular historical juncture. Some shows last longer than their cultural zeitgeist-- like X-Files, for instance, which went about three seasons too long, or Buffy, which went one season too long-- before the creators reluctantly agree to walk away. Sex and the City held on for too long, IMO.