mallorys_camera | Bad Cold, Molly, Stupid Political Conventions (Reply)

Clearly, I'm never going to have time to write at length again. Suffice it to say then:

(1) I am quite ill. No fever but I'm sweating up a storm and it hurts to breath. I caught whatever Robin had last weekend. I hardly ever get sick so this is irksome.

(2) We met Molly -- Max's new girlfriend. I liked her very much though I didn't really get a chance to talk to her. The really striking thing about her though during this briefest of encounters was how much she reminded me of Maya physically. So now I know Max has a physical type -- very blonde, very slender, very petite. In other words the exact opposite of his dark-haired, Amazonian mother. Huh.

(3) I'm not understanding why the news media is pushing the conventions down our throats. Does anybody really care? It's not as though there's any suspense connected with the process. It amused me how zealously the Washington Post and the New York Times hunted down all four of the the people who luv Hillary so much that they'll never vote for the Obamanation and gave them ledes.

If Obama loses it won't be because of Hillary Clinton -- both Hillary & Bill Clinton aquitted themselves admirably in their speechifying. Maybe it will be because of racism. But it will also be because of stupid things like refusing to make his acceptance speech in the convention center and insisting instead upon making it in a sports arena in front of a faux Roman temple. Will Obama come out in a toga tonight? I guess you have your suspense right there.