RESPECTFUL INSOLENCE

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Glory, glory, hallelujah!

Post author By Orac
Post date September 16, 2007
10 Comments on Glory, glory, hallelujah!

Even though I only rarely blog about politics, I’m with Ed Brayton, P. Z. Myers, and Amygdala on this one. Truly a wonderful thing has happened to the Presidential race.

Alan Keyes has entered the race for the 2008 Republican nomination for President.

No one can bring the crazy and stupid to a Presidential race the way Alan Keyes can. (My only hope for even better would be if Ted Nugent were to throw his hat into the ring.) His combination of self-righteous pandering to the religious right, nutty Libertarian views, and just plain silly statements far exceed anything any of the other candidates, Republican or Democratic, can come up with. If this race is going to be nearly two years long (having in essence begun last January) by the time November 2008 finally rolls around, to end our collective national misery, at least I can get some entertainment hearing about and reading Keyes’ cavalcade of 100% guaranteed wingnutty speeches and press releases for the few months before he’s inevitably forced to drop out of the primaries. I mean really, even when my politics were a lot more conservative than they are now, Keyes embarrassed the hell out of me.

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Orac is the nom de blog of a humble surgeon/scientist who has an ego just big enough to delude himself that someone, somewhere might actually give a rodent's posterior about his copious verbal meanderings, but just barely small enough to admit to himself that few probably will. That surgeon is otherwise known as David Gorski.

That this particular surgeon has chosen his nom de blog based on a rather cranky and arrogant computer shaped like a clear box of blinking lights that he originally encountered when he became a fan of a 35 year old British SF television show whose special effects were renowned for their BBC/Doctor Who-style low budget look, but whose stories nonetheless resulted in some of the best, most innovative science fiction ever televised, should tell you nearly all that you need to know about Orac. (That, and the length of the preceding sentence.)

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