Preparing for the Presidential Election with Rolling Stone Magazine

It's Rolling Stone's "reclaiming our lost glory" issue. With a cover model sporting jeans the size of Texas and no Britney Spears in sight, you just know it's going to be one serious issue. And true to form, it takes off after the Republicans with all barrels blazing . . .

"And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air, gave proof thro' the night that our flag was still there."

Who's responsible for this incendiary issue? It's as if Hunter S. Thompson himself returned from the dead and worked through the night to get the issue out. (I know, I know, Thompson's only metaphorically dead.) Here's what you'll get for your $3.95--

• An article by David Fricke about Steve Earle's new anti-Bush album "The Revolution Starts Now," billed as "one of the year's best." A snippet of an interview with Earle: "No one could have predicted the amount of damage Bush would do to this country in four years. I wouldn't have believed it."
• A "Letter from Baghdad" from Janet Reitman, in which she depicts Iraq as being on the precipice of a slippery slope leading to chaos. The headline asks, "Is radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr the Ayatollah Khomeini of Iraq? Or is he the next Saddam?"
• An update on the Vote for the Change Tour, which will end in Miami in October: "According to sources close to the event, many of the tour's nineteen participating acts--Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, Pearl Jam, R.E.M., Dave Matthews Band and Dixie Chicks, among others--will share the bill at a venue to be announced."
• An article titled "The Curse of Dick Cheney," by T.D. Allman. According to the subhead, "Time and time again, misplaced confidence in Dick Cheney has led to disaster. Will George W. Bush be his next victim?" Here's a choice quote from a former supporter: "[Cheney] has the least interest in human beings of anyone I have ever met."
• And, finally, there's the cover story on Michael Moore, "George W. Bush's worst nightmare," by Mark Binelli. Says Binelli in the article, "Moore is often called a Limbaugh of the left, but that seems unfair. For one thing, Moore has never done drugs."

So what do I think? I think Michael Moore needs to lose some weight. But it is commendable that he's drug-free. Other than that, since this is a no-politics weblog and all, you'll have to decide for yourself, keeping in mind, of course, that I'm rock 'n' roll through and through.

Comments

[Jeremy Richey]

Evan,

I agree that Moore could stand to lose a few pounds. Perhaps his next film could be a dramatic portrayal of a fat man's quest to slim down?

[Evan]

Or an expose about McDonald's titled "Super-Duper Size Me"?

[Fitz-Hume]

That one should mobilize the trial lawyers.