Attn: SoCal Reasonoids -- Talkin' McCain Blues, Wednesday and Thursday

I'll be talking about McCain: The Myth of a Maverick tonight and tomorrow night. Details:

* Wednesday, May 14, 7 p.m. − At the Pasadena Public Library; 285 E Walnut St., Pasadena.

* Thursday, May 15, 7 p.m. − At L.A.'s beautiful downtown Central Library, in the Mark Taper auditorium, as part of Zocalo L.A.'s "Deconstructing McCain"; 630 W. 5th St.

There will be audience Q&A, book signings, and perhaps a furtive sip or two of Kolly-fornia wine.

Comments

Mike Laursen | May 9, 2008, 9:11pm | #

There are Democrats in Ranch Palos Verdes?!

Matt Welch | May 9, 2008, 9:18pm | #

Crazy, huh?

Actually, cartoonist Paul Conrad lives out there....

McCainiac | May 9, 2008, 10:23pm | #

Three events about our great new commander-in-chief? Well that sounds wonderful. We'll have to raise the flags, fire up the Winnebago and head down.

Travis | May 9, 2008, 10:31pm | #

Hello

Orange Line Special | May 10, 2008, 12:27am | #

I don't know if the LAPL's wifi reaches up to that aud, but the Pas. library's works throughout. So, you can browse for porn when it gets boring. Perhaps you can bring an extra drive or something.

Julian Fondren | May 10, 2008, 8:45am | #

The Cato book forum. Reviewer is a nice blend of 'horrifying'.

jkp | May 10, 2008, 9:32am | #

Or not. :-)

BakedPenguin | May 10, 2008, 9:47am | #

Looks like Lonewacko's intimately familiar with the porn situation in LA area public libraries. No doubt inadvertant knowledge gleaned while hunting for IllegalMexicans demanding SocialServices.

BakedPenguin | May 10, 2008, 9:49am | #

Or perhaps he was searching for IllegalMexicans in the pornos themselves. After all, you can't be too thorough.

Naga Sadow | May 10, 2008, 10:41am | #

I'm on my vacation the 11th through the 18th, visiting friends in Palmdale. I might stop by . . .

Warren | May 14, 2008, 12:35pm | #

You know, with a big win for the Dems in congress looking more and more likely, and McCain coming giving better rhetoric than Obillary on everything from the Farm Bill to health care to taxes, John McCain vetoing everything the big blue Congress throws at him, and Congress cutting off military funding in retaliation, may very well be the best of all possible worlds.

TallDave | May 14, 2008, 12:40pm | #

Do you have a publish date yet for your upcoming book "Obama: The Myth of a Messiah?"

Matt Welch | May 14, 2008, 12:55pm | #

Warren -- You may be right! Or not.... Methinks McCain wouldn't veto nearly as much as you or I would like, given his, ahem, malleability on economic issues (outside of free trade), and his aisle-crossing on plenty of buttinskyism, beginning with climate regulation.

TallDave -- I wish!

Warren | May 14, 2008, 1:18pm | #

Yeah, I hear you Welch. But if we take a Democrat dominated house and senate as a given, what can you point to that wouldn't be even worse with a Dem in the White House as well. Iraq might be you're first answer, but I'm not so sure. And if you frame it as a general "military interventions" issue, I'm not at all convinced that the Gung-ho National-Greatness McCain hampered by a hostile Congress would be worse than the alternative.

Matt Welch | May 14, 2008, 1:47pm | #

Warren -- Well, as you know, I'm not here to tell you or anyone who to vote for, and I certainly don't want a nation of people who had the same bizarre voting tendencies of me, yadda yadda, but yes, Iraq & general foreign policy would be my answer-slash-guess. I think Obama -- not Hillary, not Democrats, but Obama -- has an interesting foreign policy critique that might translate into the course-correction I'm looking for.

That said, I'm frequently wrong (about course corrections and other things); I despise unified government, and I'm very worried by how far to the economic left Democrats have lurched during this election cycle. Ask me again in October.

T | May 14, 2008, 1:58pm | #

Damn. For a brief second, I almost got excited until I realized it was the California Pasadena.

Rick Barton | May 14, 2008, 3:31pm | #

What Matt said, to wit:

I think Obama -- not Hillary, not Democrats, but Obama -- has an interesting foreign policy critique that might translate into the course-correction I'm looking for...I'm very worried by how far to the economic left Democrats have lurched during this election cycle.


These are the concerns that are troubling me as well. Add to them McCain's, Hillary's, and (I think) Obama's plans for "Cap in trade" laws to address what they claim is the reality and severity of anthropogenic warming.

R C Dean | May 14, 2008, 3:53pm | #

buttinskyism

Neologism of the year!

Thanks, Matt. I'm using that one.