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Yes, it's me! Mark Steyn of that ilk - back in the saddle for another hour of questions from Steyn Clubbers around the planet. Our Clubland Q&A starts live at 3pm North American Eastern - which is 8pm British Summer Time/9pm Central European. If you chance to be elsewhere, do check local listings below.
America is now three weeks from its laughably misnamed "Election Day", and the fakeness is being cranked up to Ludicrous Speed:
Roger Kimball has a good piece on the accelerating fakeness of this last week, with many examples. The Vice President reached out to male voters, with whom she has a yawning "gender gap", by hiring a bunch of Hollywood gay boys to sit daintily on tailgates and pretend to know what a carburetor is. She also reached out to Hispanic voters, with whom she is also in trouble, by staging a so-called "town hall" in which the carefully selected audience's carefully selected questions were divulged to her in advance and she read her pre-scripted answers from a teleprompter. The non-speaking parts among the attendees were played by the workforce of an "audience-for-hire company" - apparently one of the few American industries not yet offshored to China.
The obvious question: If everything about the election campaign is fake, why shouldn't the result be?
On today's Clubland Q&A I'm happy to entertain your thoughts on that, or on anything else you want to raise. Whether or not you're a member of The Mark Steyn Club, you can listen to our show live as it happens wherever you chance to be on this turbulent earth: Club membership is required only to ask a question. We love to hear from brand new members, and especially appreciate those who are having such a great time round these parts that they've signed up a chum for a Steyn Club Gift Membership. Among the additions to our ranks in recent days are newbies from around the globe - from Tennessee to Tokyo, Bigfork to Bath, and from Warwickshire to - wow! - Westmount, Kamala's home town in Quebec. Whether you've joined this week either for a full year or a see-how-it-goes experimental quarter, do shoot me a head-scratcher for today's show.
But, if you're not interested in joining, no worries, as they say in Oz: We seek no unwilling members - and as always the show is free to listen to, so we hope you'll want to tune in. So see you back here at 3pm North American Eastern - which is 8pm in London, 9pm in Paris, 10pm in Jerusalem; half-past-ten in Teheran; midnight-forty-five in Kathmandu; 3am in Singapore and Honkers (sorry about that); 6am in Sydney and Melbourne; 8am in Auckland, and an even more convivial hour for the kippers and kedgeree in His Majesty's Dominions eastward across the Pacific, where you're so far ahead I've probably already lost my appeal by now...