Slog - Comments on Slog Steel Cage Match! Today at 4 p.m.! http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/slog_steel_cage_match The backstory is here. But what you need to know now is that this afternoon at 4 p.m., here on Slog, two Slog commenters will be locked in a liveblogging widget, in the style of a steel cage match, to debate the only question worth debating these days: Barack Obama or John McCain? Consider it amateur hour, in a good way—a warm up act before the pros go at it in the first presidential debate this Friday. In the left corner, debating in favor of Barack Obama, will be Will Erdmann, 26, a concierge at the Best Western Executive Inn... Copyright 2008 Wed, 24 Sep 2008 09:40:58 -0800 Wed, 24 Sep 2008 10:52:24 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Andy Niable Ah, how I love the smell of alpha-male sweat in the morning (or whenever this cage match happens) be it posturing progressive or cranky conservative.

]]> Andy Niable http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/slog_steel_cage_match#c1148807 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/slog_steel_cage_match#c1148807 2008 Tue, 23 Sep 2008 16:30:38 -0800 Comment by Ziggity If they're not aiming to make out by the end of the day, I just can't be bothered.

]]> Ziggity http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/slog_steel_cage_match#c1148809 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/slog_steel_cage_match#c1148809 2008 Tue, 23 Sep 2008 16:33:53 -0800 Comment by Homo Will I'm not into guys twice my age. But somebody's ass is gonna be served, and it's Larry's.

]]> Homo Will http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/slog_steel_cage_match#c1148814 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/slog_steel_cage_match#c1148814 2008 Tue, 23 Sep 2008 16:37:36 -0800 Comment by Little Red Ryan Hood Larry has been to China! That's foreign policy experience!

]]> Little Red Ryan Hood http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/slog_steel_cage_match#c1148815 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/slog_steel_cage_match#c1148815 2008 Tue, 23 Sep 2008 16:38:41 -0800 Comment by Mike in MO wow, Homo Will is H O T!

are you into guys 1.5 times your age? That live in fucking MO?

]]> Mike in MO http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/slog_steel_cage_match#c1148819 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/slog_steel_cage_match#c1148819 2008 Tue, 23 Sep 2008 16:42:57 -0800 Comment by stinkbug Can we place bets?

]]> stinkbug http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/slog_steel_cage_match#c1148822 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/slog_steel_cage_match#c1148822 2008 Tue, 23 Sep 2008 16:45:32 -0800 Comment by Homo Will Bets would be great... I'll have to, of course, take a commission off the earnings though.

]]> Homo Will http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/slog_steel_cage_match#c1148845 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/slog_steel_cage_match#c1148845 2008 Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:13:57 -0800 Comment by elenchos It's just going to be nothing but "Well, John McCain didn't have a __________ at the Hanoi Hilton, so maybe he it's a little harder for him to feel that way about __________." Why bother?

Oh and then there's the electoral math, which makes this whole debate thing doubly moot.

]]> elenchos http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/slog_steel_cage_match#c1148848 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/slog_steel_cage_match#c1148848 2008 Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:18:00 -0800 Comment by Catalina Vel-DuRay I'm the son of a WWII Army Air Corps intelligence officer, and the cousin of three people currently serving in McBush's Occupation. Plus, my babysitter's son was killed in Afghanistan. Can I sit by the cage and knit?

]]> Catalina Vel-DuRay http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/slog_steel_cage_match#c1148876 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/slog_steel_cage_match#c1148876 2008 Tue, 23 Sep 2008 18:09:47 -0800 Comment by Catalina Vel-DuRay Oh, and one of my Uncles was one of those guys who had to lay on that bridge in Germany and act like he was dead during that battle during WWII. That should count for something.

]]> Catalina Vel-DuRay http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/slog_steel_cage_match#c1148877 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/slog_steel_cage_match#c1148877 2008 Tue, 23 Sep 2008 18:11:28 -0800 Comment by scary tyler moore CV-D FTW.

]]> scary tyler moore http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/slog_steel_cage_match#c1148891 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/slog_steel_cage_match#c1148891 2008 Tue, 23 Sep 2008 18:34:39 -0800 Comment by Mahtli69 A Republican Peace Corps volunteer? What an anomaly!

]]> Mahtli69 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/slog_steel_cage_match#c1148958 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/slog_steel_cage_match#c1148958 2008 Tue, 23 Sep 2008 21:08:11 -0800 Comment by Andy Niable My father bombed the heavy water factories in Germany in WWII, and had he lived past 2005 I guarantee he would not have voted for John McCain. But he might have enjoyed this cage match. If you spoke loudly enough.

]]> Andy Niable http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/slog_steel_cage_match#c1148973 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/slog_steel_cage_match#c1148973 2008 Tue, 23 Sep 2008 21:55:13 -0800 Comment by reverend dr dj riz ..is ther gonna be drinking ?
..just axin...

]]> reverend dr dj riz http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/slog_steel_cage_match#c1149023 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/slog_steel_cage_match#c1149023 2008 Wed, 24 Sep 2008 01:05:21 -0800 Comment by um homowill is fine, and i'm offering 1.25x his age...

]]> um http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/slog_steel_cage_match#c1149095 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/slog_steel_cage_match#c1149095 2008 Wed, 24 Sep 2008 09:44:29 -0800 Comment by You_Gotta_Be_Kidding_Me Homo Will could "persuade" me to vote Obama... Yum!

]]> You_Gotta_Be_Kidding_Me http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/slog_steel_cage_match#c1149106 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/slog_steel_cage_match#c1149106 2008 Wed, 24 Sep 2008 09:53:25 -0800 Comment by Andy Niable Today at 4pm. Awww, man. I'll be at Westlake Mall rallying against McCain/Palin. Oh well, I'll have to read it post-match.

]]> Andy Niable http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/slog_steel_cage_match#c1149111 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/slog_steel_cage_match#c1149111 2008 Wed, 24 Sep 2008 09:58:05 -0800 Comment by w7ngman Who's moderating?

]]> w7ngman http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/slog_steel_cage_match#c1149130 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/slog_steel_cage_match#c1149130 2008 Wed, 24 Sep 2008 10:14:02 -0800 Comment by Homo Will @18 Eli is moderating

]]> Homo Will http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/slog_steel_cage_match#c1149174 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/slog_steel_cage_match#c1149174 2008 Wed, 24 Sep 2008 10:52:24 -0800