Neanderpundit

The media will be all over the hurricane, and they will make the inevitable comparisons to Katrina. How Wingnuthead acts in response to this will unquerstionably effect the outcome of the elections, but at the same time….

Sometimes, when confronted by the overwhelming evidence of their own eyes, people actually learn. It’s not often, but it does happen. And witnessing the actual events of Sandy vs the media reportage, more than a few people might just say to themselves, “hey, maybe these folks in the media have been misleading us about other shit too”.

Would it not be amazing to see the state of NY covered in red, on the electoral map?

I’m still betting the other way, but there’s that moment you have to indulge a fantasy, like the couple dreamy minutes between buying a lotto ticket and finding out some fat moron in Compton won YOUR $45 million bucks.

In other news, scientists have discovered a “Tau protein” gene that affects the ability to remember and reason. Seems with the gene switched off, mice who had been affliced with alzheimers-like symptoms were able to regain their capability for reason and memory.

Well, now wee know what causes that horrid disease “Democrat itis”

Harvey, arguably the very best person I know, displays his trademark snark in a way that made me glad I wasn’t drinking coffee (Or, for that matter, anything) at the time.

The folks on the east coast are going through some serious trouble right now, and what would merely inconvenience a Floridian could be devastating to a Manhattanite.

We don’t usually deal with earthquake in the midwest, and they don’t have blizzards in LA, and they don’t get debilitating ice storms in Ecuador. We can deal with the conditions we always deal with, and when something this unusual happens it’s hard to be prepared.

It would be easy to politicise this, as many already have. “Romney wants to cut FEMA!” but at the end of the day, people are suffering and they deserve our concern.

That being said, here’s a picture of the situation in NY from my dear old friend and confidant Mlle Jenny: