I am a political dumb-shit for the most part. Mr. Hot is a news junkie (when you’re retired - you have time to read and actually digest what you’re reading….) and knows everything that is going on current event-wise.

My “1/2 way through the New Year” resolution (it replaces all of those made on January 1 whch were promptly forgotten by January 15) is to actually be able to have an intelligent conversation on the subject. Especially since the 2008 Presidential Election seems to have started 24 months early. It will be a very long year if I have to continue pretending that I know what he’s lecturing me on, er, venting, er, talking about. I’m just not that good at keeping the vacant look out of my eyes….sometimes the glaze happens - and then I piss him off. And I hate it when that happens. (Really, honey, I do. I don’t glaze over on purpose, but it’s kinda like when I wax poetical about my new Larry Levine suit, y’know?)

So now, since I can’t really go into overdrive with this, I have to determine where to start. I need little bites. A nibble of news. A taste of telecast. A drop of dispatch. (Okay, y’all, did you know that ‘poop’ is now officially a synonym for news? - check it - What? You think I came up with those on my own? puh-leeze.)

So, my first stop is The New York Times. I do know you would consider me a liberal based on my belief system. This may be somewhat surprising considering what I do for a living, but when Mr. Hot rants, er, pontificates, er, attempts to discuss these issues with his politically ignorant and backward (but ever so Hot) wife, he refers quite often to this publication.

There’s a LOT of information here. I hope my head doesn’t explode. There are a few things I do know (even before I begin reading) - I just wish I didn’t have to believe them:

• Hillary cannot get elected. The Yew-Nahted Stay-ets, the people who crucified her husband for getting a blow job, will never stand for another Clinton in the White House. I admire this woman, for her intelligence, and for her ability to withstand the slings and arrows that came her way in the past. But, she has boobs AND balls. What more can I say? She hasn’t got a prayer.
• Barack has as much chance as Hillary. The people who are not going to vote for a woman are not going to vote for an African American. Not when the right-wingers point out that his middle name is Hussein (which, by the way, means ‘handsome or beautiful’, not ‘good-old-boy-American-hating-killer’).
• Voters during the primaries will undoubtedly elect one of these two as their candidate for November 2008, which means that we will most assuredly have another Republican in the White House in 2009.

My goal will be two articles per day “off the cuff” - and to really listen to Mr. Hot and make a point to go look up anything that I don’t understand. I may bring some of what I learn - that which is relevant to a subject, or especially though-provoking, or just fucking funny - back here to post my opinion. I will NOT turn this blog into a political blog. God knows there’s enough of those out there.

Mr. Hot suggests strongly that I pay close attention to Maureen Dowd. I can’t really imagine why, but I’m sure it has something to do with her biting wit and clear prose.

—- Bet his eyes wouldn’t glaze over if she mentioned Larry Levine, but I like to think that she understands a bit about the Hotfessional life. —-