Good news for the GOP

Gordon and the lovely Mrs. Gekko made a run to Oxford last night for a political fund raiser for Cindy Carpenter, who's running for Clerk of Courts.

We went to the event as an invitee of one of my clients, who's tied in with the Butler County GOP. it was a great time to use up all of our carbon credits for the big time bonfire and hay ride.

In addition, I met Don Carpenter, an occasional contributor to WMD.

In contrast, today we made a run to the Berkeley of Ohio, Yellow Springs, for our annual liberal zoo field trip and OD on the smell of Patchouli.

Things must be somewhat decent for McCain in Ohio. Why? I saw two McCain-Palin yard signs in Yellow Springs, that's two more than I expected.

Something else that caught my eye; I noticed last year none of the gift shops had stock originating from "Sweat shops". I guess Sweat Shops are now acceptable for these stores as long as the manufacturers "provide workers a living wage for their local community".

I'm thinking this is code for "It's ok if we pay some peasant $1.00 a day in Nicaragua, but its not ok if Nike pays a peasant $1.00 a day in Vietnam".

But as we were touring all the shops I couldn't help but think of Joe the Plumber. I mean who the hell are these people to sell hemp sandals for $42.00 made in Indonesia when they should sell them to some poor person for $10.00?

Seriously, $42 for a pair of shoes made of a naturally occurring fiber. Something tells me these folks brand of socialism wouldn't be so popular if Gordon was setting their rules, but they have no problem telling me how much of my net worth I should get to keep.

I was also struck by the fact the few of the shops would allow customers use their restrooms. I mean, hey, where's the compassion for a poor guy who's got to go. And why no skateboards on the sidewalks? Aren't you holding down some slacker? Man, this town's got a lot of rules for a citizenship bent on anarchy.

On a somewhat related note, it was sad to see Antioch College go by the wayside. I wonder where else these snot nosed, little rich punks will be able to go to a school and pretend to be an anti-establishment a-hole on daddy's nickel? .......Oh..... that would be at any Ohio university.