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Democratic extravagance falls on convention center
By Matthew Quane
mquane@mscd.edu

Scientists at Duke University recently discovered that people’s altruistic actions are not controlled by the part of the brain responsible for self-gain and rewards.

Instead, according to the study, “increased activity in the posterior superior temporal sulcus strongly predicted a person’s likelihood for altruistic behavior.”

So what would you do with a cool $70
million?

Would you give it all away? Maybe give a large chunk of it to people who need it more than you?

Well, the Democratic National Party has $70 million to spend, and they plan on blowing it on one huge party known as the Democratic National Convention – and they’ll be blowing it right here in our backyard.

Obviously the Dems’ posterior superior temporal sulcus is underperforming.

Should anyone drop that sort of cash on a party? Hardly. Unless, of course, their extravagance outweighs their politics, which, in the case of the Dems, seems to be the case.

Democrats may have talked big about their plans for the next two years, but their focus is definitely beyond that.

While Bush’s flying fortress of a regime is going down like the Hindenburg, the Dems are in no hurry to salvage the debris – after all, it isn’t their mess, although it will likely be their presidency come 2008.

And that is exactly where their focus lies – the next presidency. If their focus were truly on policy, they would pump some of that DNC cash into policy.

But $70 million on a party? They must be getting ripped off on the balloons.

Graphic by Joe Nguyen • nguyejos@mscd.edu