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Ok. Frequent contibutor and Veteran’s Affairs Editor “Mutt” suggests I intrude here with some insane ramblings to the purpose of stirring the pot which I believe loosely translate to “Puleeeeze, let’s give Hillary/Obama a break!” This causes me great discomfort because I must confront the idea of writing about something not that bores the crap out of me (easy to write about! So many possibilities!), but that actually interests me (hard! So few possibilities.) Even the Jazz-Lakers game with which my attention is momentarily shared reminds me slightly of Hillary/Obama: let’s cut through this geek stuff and get to the finals (Pistons-Lakers/ McCain-Obama). It’s only the unimaginative sports fan or partisan fanatic who still actually cares about these quarter-final matchups in the NBA or about the media-driven denoument of the primary process. So in that spirit, how ’bout a fast paced “3 dot” column, the favorite cop-out of print columnists everywhere who can’t think of any single subject worth writing an entire piece about?

For example, did you know there existed a new acronym classification defining a generational demographic? It’s called “nuppie” and I believe that stand for Nomadic Urban Professional, educated entrepeneurs who can’t afford rent or mortgages, or who choose not to pay them, and are astute enough to take advantage of mobile technology. There’s an array of miniaturized cyber products at our disposal…WiFi, laptops, Mp3 players, BlackBerries, etc…to allow the intrepid information trader to ride fast and hard. And since “info-tainment” is the U.S.’s #1 product, apparently a whole new set of dockers-wearing Kerouac’s and Cassidy’s are prowling today’s high tech hobo jungles making a buck or two off their wits and their cyber skills. Beats timing your freight train hopping to the Spokane apple harvest I suppose, although not nearly as romantic. There’s even a new furniture pod that appeals to this new class of nomads (http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/02/casulo_an_entir.php). A few years back, I did a morning drive radio show in Portland, Oregon for 6 months without ever leaving Alpine nor having ever set foot in Portland. And I thought that was pretty cool. But now the sky’s the limit. Hit the road with your Airstream, your Casulo, and your BlackBerry and make a hundred grand selling nutritional supplements or day trading on-line. Roatan ( http://www.roatanonline.com/) here I come…

Meanwhile back on earth, check out the tough love comments here (http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20080507-1508-extradition.html) concerning the Carmel Valley mother heading back to Michigan complete her sentence on drug trafficking charges of 34 years ago. LeFevre is the poster child for the ridiculousness of drug criminalization and the concept of rehabilitation. It’s clear that life in the ‘burbs on the lamb offers far greater chances for redemption than 10-20 inside our squalid Prison Industrial Complex…

Meanwhile, Reason magazine offers a detailed indictment (  http://www.reason.com/news/show/125438.html ) of the dishonesty of the War on Terror and it’s funding. Look, who really belongs in prison, LeFevre of Bush?…

Finally, if the Nuppie lifestyle really appeals to you (as it does me), maybe you can help pad these statistics (http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-fi-walkaway11-2008may11,0,7636846.story ). Is there a sadder testimonial to this gas guzzling, McMansion, consumer driven aylum we live in than this???

See you in Spokane in September….

Frankly, I’m finally getting burned out on this nominating process, so this weeks primary results from North Carolina and Indiana seem a bit anticlimactic. Actually this whole thing could have turned out to be interesting and revealing but as the attentive observer knows instead quickly descended into a chaotic melange of insignificant trivialities like Preachergate, guns, “gas tax holidays”, and lapel pins. All of course media-driven, facilitated by Clinton’s desperate grasping and Obama’s apologetic ramblings. Still hearing virtually nothing about McCain’s rapid reincarnation as Curtis LeMay, the demented Vietnam era Strangelove. Also increasingly annoying is this notion that Obama can’t get angry because he’ll turn off “working class” dems. If so, why is he the presumptive nominee? What happens if he wins the White House than shows anger? Impeachment? Uppityness with Intent? And what’s with Clintonite lapdog Paul Begala running around referring to Obama supporters as “egg heads”? Jesus. To this bunch some gal with an associates degree in sports medicine is an intellectual elitist and the guy that prepared your taxes lives in an “ivory tower”. More divide-and-conquer tactics that will end up in McCain’s playbook. Thank god the economy is going well and that little operation in Iraq has turned out so successful, otherwise we wouldn’t have time to dwell on this important stuff.