A sign that Armageddon is around the corner?
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Or at least that we're just a few steps from things getting completely out of control?
Step. 1 John McCain uses a quick shot of Paris Hilton in an ad that tweaks Barack Obama.
Step. 2. Hilton cuts her own ad that tweaks both of them, although McCain much more than Obama, and varies from her patented "blonde, socialite ditz" personna long enough to rattle off a seemingly serious, or at least cogent, energy policy that would somewhat synthesize one part of each candidate's energy ideas. "Energy crisis solved," she says. "See you at the debates, b------."
Step 3. The Christian Science Monitor analyzes and vets President Paris Hilton's energy policy (noting that the Constitution would have to be amended, of course, because Ms. Hilton isn't old enough to hold the office), using it as a vehicle to talk about campaign energy discussions.Its conclusion:
So in short, the Hilton Plan seems to have it backward: Even under fairly conservative estimates we have the ability to develop more fuel-efficient technology before we can access all the oil that’s offshore.
So if we really need Paris Hilton to start dissecting energy policy, what's next? A discussion of how to change Don't Ask Don't Tell by Lindsay Lohan, followed by a special pullout section in The New York Times?
Ballots coming in
With ballots for Washington state’s top two primary streaming in to county elections offices, state officials are unveiling a new Web site to give voters even more help with their ballot and registration.
Secretary of State Sam Reed said voters seem to prefer the new voting system, in which they can vote for any candidate in each race, to the “Pick a Party” primary used 2004 and 2006. In those years, voters could cast a ballot that had only one of the major party’s candidates on it.
