Sarah Palin: reminding women everywhere of that time the job they should have had went to the under-qualified hot chick*.



*Sarah Palin is not hot.

Does vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin know how to interior decorate or does vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin know how to interior decorate?

“As for that VP talk all the time, I’ll tell you, I still can’t answer that question until somebody answers for me what is it exactly that the VP does every day?”

Why I read the Economist's blog:

9:05: Wow. Apparently a lot of people in the crowd there miss the 90s—when Pavement was still together, an edgy company with a name and no product or revenue model could have a larger market cap than Buick, and our random military interventions unsupported by any vital national interest were at least one-night stands.

Bill Clinton sounds like he has a watermelon jolly rancher in his mouth.

Well let me just say I thought it might be neat to get the vp text message. What I expected was to get the news at work and to know it before NPR reported it. I did not anticipate being woken up at 314 in the morning to hear about Joe Biden. Apparently, the story leaked over night and they didn't want to wait until a reasonable hour and, thereby, look like a bunch of assholes. But I have to say: slops!

Slops, Obama VP text message announcement gimmick. Sloppy.

Biden does not get me fired up but very little could at this point: who is the least wealthiest et cetera.

I saw Joe Biden at a bar in Iowa at 8 in the morning on the day of the Caucus. I was very tired.

After he spoke I chatted him up briefly because we had talked about his federalism plan for Iraq in one of my classes. Basically, I said to Joe that I was refreshed to hear his proposals because I think that ethnic/religious conflicts/cleavages exist in the context of the systems in which they exist, and that policy people need to understand that it is not just that a democracy is a democracy is a democracy.

"That's it! You get it, buddy!" Joe said.

So to reiterate, the head of the ticket hugged me, and the bottom of the ticket thinks I'm smart.

One time I shook John McCain's hand when he was looking for the bathroom.

Best-executed album art of the decade.

Current spin: "One Fine Day"

"A Georgian woman prays during Sunday mass in Matskhovris Karis Church in Zugdidi, a major town in western Georgia, August 17, 2008. Russia's Defence Ministry said on Sunday it had not yet begun withdrawing troops from Georgia's breakaway region of South Ossetia.

REUTERS/Umit Bektas"

Has anyone heard anything about the US Mens Swimming team lately?

How about that Phelps character?

Watch out for the gypsy children in electric dresses they're insane. I hear they live in crematoriums and smoke your remains.

1. Reckoner
2. Optimistic
3. There There
4. 15 Step
5. Kid A
6. Nude
7. All I Need
8. The Gloaming
9. National Anthem
10. Videotape
11. Jigsaw Falling Into Place
12. The Bends
13. Faust Arp
14. Weird Fishes/Arpeggi
15. Everything In Its Right Place
16. Exit Music (for a film)
17. Bodysnatchers

18. House of Cards
19. I Might Be Wrong
20. Paranoid Android
21. Wolf at the Door
22. How To Disappear Completely


23. Cymbal Rush
24. Karma Police
25. Idioteque

I was going to write a little something about how the Clash of Civilizations was probably wrong; that not much has changed since the Cold War in the sense that the US, Russia, and China are probably going to dominate global politics in roughly the pattern as the previous half century. The 90s were a hiccup.

But I am tired, so take from that what you will.

Suffice it to say that I am sick of: michael phelps, "break-away region," rain, "these" olympics, any olympics, apple products.

I am not sick of: kurt vonnegut, bob dylan, bananas, balms.

Disproportionate

Any body else not sure about that anthrax guy?
Like, they didn't do handwriting analysis, and they say his motive for sending letters to Daschle and Leahy was that he was catholic and they were pro choice, but his letters said nothing about abortion, only
"09-11-01
YOU CAN NOT STOP US.
WE HAVE THIS ANTHRAX.
YOU DIE NOW.
ARE YOU AFRAID?
DEATH TO AMERICA.
DEATH TO ISRAEL.
ALLAH IS GREAT."
Right. Damn abortionists.

Also what is this "Amerithrax" bullshit, DOJ?

I'll be skeptical if I want to.