A strangely moving account of living with no sense of smell. Imagine being susceptible to drinking perfume, or not noticing a gas leak, or having no olefactory sexual instincts. It does have some advantages though:
I will have to soldier on, and draw what comfort I can from a recent exchange with an ex-boyfriend who, as we reminisced about our relationship said wistfully, “You were the best girlfriend in the world. You let me bring curry home from the pub every night and I could fart as much as I liked.” I’m putting it in my next personal ad.
Here’s another site exploring a world without scent. The beagle is incredulous, of course.
MORE MOORE: He doctors a date and misrepresents a newspaper headline.
ON OHIO: Another reader weighs in:
The blog seems to have it partially wrong while the reader letter is partially right. Bush is trying to cut in Kerry’s Catholic base around Cleveland. The problem is that he risks further alienating liberal and moderate Republicans as well as Independents in the Cleveland suburbs. Running an abortion ad is high stakes poker because most campaigns view the risk as greater than the reward. Also the conventional wisdom says that the loser tends to be the one who brings it up. Bush is obviously convinced that his economic message isn’t viable in the area and has therefore resorted to his nuclear daisy-cutter. This is about fear not opportunity. Bush has plenty of wedge issues working against Kerry among traditional Catholics without dropping the a-word.
Another thing to consider is the choice of the medium. 60 Minutes? Why would you broadcast this message to such a wide audience? Granted the audience does tend to skew older, but why run the risk when you can target the message more precisely to a more narror audience and cheaper as well?
Finally the blog does contain one piece of wisdom explaining why. “Because according to Voinovich, the Bush administration has not been doing enough to stop Ohio from “bleeding jobs.” That’s a fairly damning source. Even if the recovery numbers are there, Voinovich clearly doesn’t want to be on the wrong side of the perception.
It’s obviously knife-edge close in Ohio. And that cannot be too encouraging for an incumbent.
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