Day: August 30, 2012

Every four years, the two major political parties in the United States of America meet in late summer to make formal their nominees for president and vice president, set party platforms, and mostly just party. As recently as a generation ago, the conventions held at least a modicum of drama (when the late Teddy Roosevelt challenged sitting President Jimmy Carter in 1980). Now, however, it’s all pomp and nonsense. A multi-day propaganda parade, with the mainstream media complicit in it all, because they enjoy a grand ol’ party like the rest of us. As long as there’s no news...