Elvis & the Flaming River

(Politics: hubris, humor, hurrahs)

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Last week, the Republican party held their Presidential nominating convention in that most alluring of international travel destinations – Cleveland, Ohio – at the romantically named Quicken Loans Arena. According to statistics, 50 million people watched at least some of the four-day event, which might be a record if we could find anybody who would actually admit they watched. (source: Medea Watch)

I don’t know if you tuned in to any of the conve...