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The following was featured in Raw Story and was reposted by Brad with the caption 'Pets or Meat ?', a hat tip to an early short film by Michael Moore:

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=5975

I'll be brief. Methinks George had this SUPER COOL IDEA that if the Army cremates fallen soldiers in a pet crematorium, they'll rise from the dead and either re-enlist, or their dead asses will be stop-lossed.

Or it's just another sickening display of a lack of respect for our men and women in uniform.

Which of these?

Talking Points make me sick. Talking Points are for the weak minded. Talking Points are the sweat-soaked, dog-eared index cards you refer to ad nauseum because your too much of a dope to think on your feet. Talking Points don't fuel discourse, they are spitballs for an argument. Sam asked for McCain supporters to call with reasons, what he got was Talking Points.

I give you OUR friggin' Talking Points [and salient rationale]:

1. McCain is old and not wrapped too tight.

[i.e. presenting itself as the onset of full-blown dementia. That crap Brit Hume spews about a 'senior moment' is trying to Reaganize this turd McCain. That ever so cute 'bomb-bomb-bomb-Iran' ditty was too evocative of Reagan's 'we begin bombing in 5 minutes' guffaw. Note to Hume: What you have cannot be cured with black coffee, a bran muffin, and a copy of UsWeekly. You are boned.]

2. McCain offers nothing but more Bushite war and policy.

[This pretty much speaks for itself. Even Republicans know this administration's policies blow dead dogs for lunch at the SPCA, and takes their wives back there for dinner.]

and

3. McCain will institute A DRAFT, KIDDIES!

[He already said as much. He dismissively told a 15 year old kid who asked him a question he didn't wanna answer at one of his rallies to "Sit down!!". In 3 years that kid will be biting the green weenie if McCain has his way. He has a right to question his prospective Commander-In-Chief, doesn't he?? When these ass-clowns talk about 'Intestinal Fortitude' it's CODE for having the GUTS to SEND OTHER PEOPLE'S kids to WAR to DIE!]

Hammer these points home, friends.

While Talking Points may be fodder for morons, sometimes you have to provide processed food to idiots living in a whole food world.

While there's been a number of work-in-progress titles floated out there by Seder to put a name to this monster he and Maron have on the slab, I'd like to make a case for the boys to stick with 'Unshaven'. There have been some snort-inducing names that were tossed out there in the brainstorm; 'Jews and Technology' surfaced largely out of frustration on a memorable clear Fall day in Bryant Park. The lions in front of the NY Public Library are still snickering about that one. I was expecting Foley to say to Maron, "Let me have a look at yer notebook, get this goddamn show on the road..."

'Unshaven' is as perfect a title for what you're seeing. You have two exhausted guys, one by fatherhood, the other by, I'll say, life, meeting on line to discuss the events of the day in a balls-out, unexpurgated fashion, they come as they are, and they bring it raw. Seder has said his [most excellent] appearances on MSNBC's "Countdown" will be fewer since he became Hudsonified and stubbly. I say any program that demands you show up clean shaven is not interested in content over style. I love how Maron plunks himself in his backyard in the morning, as is, with a water glass of black 'Chock Full o' Nuts', a cigar, and the occasional breakfast item. Often he'll be joined by special guests Monkey and LaFonda, or whoever is under his chair at the time. His feral buds are low on input but high on cute.

'Unshaven' is also the content; the kind of rage-fueled discourse complete with the language that it warrants, unshaven of the invective that is the earmark of these guy's passion for progressive discourse in an increasingly loud and stupid world.

And while every political and self-promoting tome out there has a subtitle, might I propose the following: 'Unshaven--Life, Liberty and Hirsute Hotheadedness'

Whatever face it takes, dag it, I'll be there!!