Most of the time, those icebergs are no real threat to your Titanic.

The Sun – The Big Picture – Boston.com

At the Design Observer (scroll down for link to slide show).

(h/t Good Shit)

Responding to a post at CONTENTIONS, Commentary » Blog Archive » You’re Not Serious?, commenters conjure up an image of upper middle class Americans preparing to reign in their consumption and even their dearest personal ambitions in anticipation of Obama tax policies. The attitude is pre-depressive, in more ways than one, though the commenters are focused on the economic aspect. (more…)

Reacting to a Rasmussen poll confirming not-Vice-President-Elect Palin’s unrivaled popularity among Republicans, Jennifer Rubin underlines a politically inescapable fact:

While the punditocracy is greatly divided on Palin, actual Republicans (i.e. voters) are not. Four years may be an eternity in politics. But for now, Palin enjoys a unique base of support among the people who will count in determining the 2012 nomination.

If Governor Palin sets her sights on a presidential run, she may be able to maintain a personal, one might even say intimate embrace from an infatuated base while expanding her appeal through the middle, and this opportunity is what justifies some otherwise clearly premature comparisons to Ronald Reagan.

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At The Weekly Standard, the attentive Victorino Matus pauses from licking his conservative wounds to pick up on a clever musical allusion. Here’s Matus’ short post in its entirety:

As Senator John McCain ended his poignant concession speech last night and slowly walked off the stage, was anyone else reminded of the movie Crimson Tide? If so, it’s because the music for McCain’s exit was actually taken from the submarine thriller (composed by Hans Zimmer). After the final showdown, the old Navy captain Frank Ramsay (Gene Hackman) finally hands power over to Lt. Hunter (Denzel Washington) and in slo-mo walks through the submarine’s corridors, saluting his men, smoking his stogie. Cue the thunderous brass. A rather fitting ending for a military hero. Except McCain would have never gotten confused about those Lipizzaners.

M—-, I honestly believe that McCain is pursuing a strategy that was probably planned out at least as far back as March, with room for adjustments according to events and the state of the race. I’m sure he anticipated a hostile media environment, for instance, but I doubt that he thought that almost the entire impetus for “vetting” Obama would depend on his campaign, with major news organizations only beginning to investigate Obama’s background in the very final weeks.

As we all know, the financial meltdown complicated things tremendously for the McCain campaign, just as a different set of surprises might have made things much easier. The effect has been to put him almost in the position that Hillary was in last Spring, when going as negative as she needed to still might not have worked, and, even it had worked, would have torn her party apart. For McCain, I’m sure the plan was always to withhold the opposition reasearch material until October, and to let it out only to the extent deemed necessary. As things appear to have turned out – if we can trust the public polls, or, even without them, trust the sense that the meltdown has tipped the board toward Obama – McCain is in the position where going negative enough to win on that basis alone risks tearing the country apart, and, again, might not even work.

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