From How We Drive, the Blog of Tom Vanderbilt’s Traffic » Blog Archive » Joe the Dumber:
Traffic-related presidential campaign hijinx don’t get any better than Joe McCain’s much-celebrated call to 911 to register the following: “Well, it’s not an emergency, but do you know why on one side at the damn drawbridge of 95 traffic is stopped for 15 minutes and yet traffic’s coming the other way?”
Well, at least it wasn’t a bridge to nowhere. I couldn’t help noticing, via the always penetrating Jonathan Raban in the London Review of Books, this chestnut: “[Palin] redecorated the mayor’s office at a reported cost of $50,000 salvaged from the highways budget.” That included red-flock wallpaper.
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