Biden was the Bomb

PJM liveblogged Biden's speech. 

Last night we watched The Big Bang Theory. We're amazed that a lot of people think it's a dumb, middlebrow show with cheep jokes. We find it quite smart.

[I bet you do-Ed].

As for assessments of the speech, wait a few days.

The brilliance of Trump buying the WaPo masthead is that it made libs in the media freak out and draw even more attention to it. The buy also shows that the WaPo is run by whores who will do anything if you pay them enough money. How is it remotely appropriate for a supposedly independent newspaper to run political advertising? 

Whores. Skank, skeezy, whores.

And checkout the Trump ads running on the YouTube masthead. Not since 1988 has any GOP run anything that tough and hard hitting. Not Mitt, not McCain, not W., not that old guy from 1996.  Mr. we could use a man like Lee Atwater again. Younger reader(s) we urge you to click that link. Click it! That is some vintage Cold War political advertising, when the GOP one five of six elections.

Brutal.

Usually a convention gives a presidential candidate a bounce in the polls. Trump is at 51% in the Rasmussen and tied in Minnesota, which means he's really ahead in Minnesota. There's been a convention bounce alright.

Here in NJ07, D incumbent Tom Malinowski and R challenger Tom Kean Jr are having a contest to see who can run the best soft focus, Mr. Nice Guy ads. So far Kean looks like a wimp. Just like his dad when he chaired the 9/11 Commission. We might just vote for Malinowski. We like him well enough and he seems sane, something the party of Ms. Venezuela and Somalia's Finest desperately needs. At some point Malinowski is go to call you a Nazi, Senator. Whatchu gonna do about it?

We put down JFC Fuller's Grant book. He wasn't telling us anything we didn't already know. God almighty, it's awful. And to think we read all we could by this guy when we first got into military history 25 years ago. At one point A Military History of the Western World was our Baghavad Gita. And so we switched to Lee's Last Campaign...so far beautifully written, a real tribute without being sentimental. We're learning a lot.

Milwaukee Madness and Various

No, we still didn't watch, but this thing sounds like a disaster. Harris did not impress we are told. My friend William Katz has the roundup. Hillary! Hillaried. Obama looked drained and tired. Of course the Dem's are constrained by all the video conferencing and the GOP may have the same problem. We shall see. But the Dem's biggest problem is that their convention is a giant hate-bitchfest. They look like angry, screaming damaged people. Never look like angry, screaming damaged people. You gotta bring more than that to a convention. What the hell do these people stand for? We don't know.

Explaining this thing to the Soviet...er...Russian GRU is going to be interesting.

In our own NJ07 Congressional District, State Senate Minority Leader Tom Kean is taking on incumbent Tom Malinowski. This should be an easy pickup. The Kean name still means something in New Jersey and NJ07 is pink. We've seen a few Kean digital ads and so far, we're not impressed. Lots of soft-focus, working with the other side schpeel and what not. Give it time.

We think we can see the end of The Great Nuclear War of 1975.  We're working on a chapter were Rockefeller is visiting various infrastructure sights, canals, bridges, etc. Engineers are dredging the Rappahannock River in VA and turning Fredericksburg into the next great East Coast port. From there they can truck stuff up and down I-95 and into the interior on I-64. The main issue at this point in 1976 is building the storage and refinery capability to bring oil in from Alaska and the Middle East. They do that, they oughta be able to make it through the winter. Of course there's diminished harvest issues. But again, there's a hell of a lot less people to feed and livestock ought to recover somewhat. We just might have a rough by 21 September.

The more we think about it, the more we like the idea of an opening Caribbean/Central America themed chapter based on the Managua campaign. Maybe.

Also with each day, nay, hour, Palmerston's War makes sense as the project for 2021. Even though we think advertising doesn't work anymore, advertising Palmerston's War in Civil War and British history magazines oughta work. New readers, right? We'll also see.