4 October 2004 - presidential debate

A presidential debate is a good thing—or at least, it’s better than the two mutually-independent self-intersecting fractal monologs that we get in its absence. I love to watch the raw skill as they effortlessly snatch cliche from the jaws of originality and cut through complex issues like a hot chainsaw through butter, splattering droplets over the audience. You can see them champing at the drill bit to say, “There is nothing to feel but feeling itself!”