Cheney 08, it's still not too late...

Well this long standing battle for America's soul is almost over and a few final points are in order. WHAT THE HELL ARE WE GOING TO DO WITH OUR LIVES? Actually people say this thing has gone on for ever but it seems to be almost too quick to me. Maybe it's because I don't have a television.




People I have talked to recently have bemoaned the lack of a suitable candidate and I say what the hell, what do you want, Mother Theresa? I think that both of these guys are fine people and excellent public servants and that either way it goes would be a dramatic improvement on the current regime. Can you imagine the scrutiny they are under where every fart you have ever cut in your life goes under the microscope?



I have been checking out political yard signs in town and would like to offer an observation. Republican's yards are cleaner, almost obsessively so. Maybe their intense need for order leads them to the conservative side of the force. Lib's yards like mine tend to have unruly bushes and look more chaotic. Tidy democracies can be quite strangulating.

I have got a ton of emails on the Fallbrook Tattler, my nascent hometown broadside. Many of you want to contribute to future issues. Thank you. We will see. Newspaper circulation and reading in general is down and I don't want to jump in at the wrong time. I got this e-mail from the actual editor of the hometown paper and would like to share it with you as well as my response:

Great. Now I've got competition. Holy smokes.

A couple of little corrections... I'll forgive you because you are just getting your real start in your journalism career.

#1 Your suicide jump needs to be off a building 3 stories high or less (just ask the
Fallbrook Community Planning Group) - unless you took a trip and jumped elsewhere.
#2 A Pomeranian? I can picture him gnawing on a Jack Russell terrier. More meat; less
fluff.
#3 And Myrtle Kravitz is 69. She just wants you to think she's younger.


Deb

Madame Editor - Thank you for the wise tips of a seasoned pro - however a few clarifications:

Yes I had to reach into my photographer's bag o' tricks for the special effects on Sommers plunge to perdition. With the lack of tall structures in Fallbrook, I felt it would create a bit more drama than a leap off the facade at Pedro's Tacos.

I stand corrected on the canine in question - don't think he was interested in a meal so much as a little obedience training.

This is not that Myrtle Kravitz. This Myrtle Kravitz started life here as highly decorated Gunnery Sergeant Max Kravitz, an unfortunate soul who discovered his inner female somewhere along the way and went for the full clip.

thanks again for your keen observations.

R.