The McCain-Palin Make-up Bill is $13,200

That's not make-up artist, that's a contractor.

As seen on Keith Olbermann...

According to a report in the Washington Independent, the RNC spent upwards of $150,000 at places like Saks Fifth Ave and Neiman Marcus to spiff up Sarah Palin and her family. As I've said before, Palin is anything but the working class individual she pretends to be. Moreover, she's not above milking the system to get hers.

Hilarious!

The BF sent this to me and it's freekin' brilliant! Basically, it's a spoof on Palin in the Oval Office. Click on different objects in the picture and you get a different surprise! It's supposed to be updated daily, which makes me want to go back every day from now until Election Day. Of course, I hope that they'll do something special for the day afterwards, as well.

Yeah, they're all about the "big tent"

This was part of a local GOP newsletter.

Doesn't this pic just sum up the entire debate?

It's just too confusing!

The Ovation channel has just begun airing Classical Star, like American Idol but set in London and in search of the next Itzhak Perlman or Wynton Marsalis. Is it high brow? Is it low brow? I don't know! I mean, it's Classical music, so I'm inclined to think high brow! But then, it's a reality show following these kids and seeing them with their stage moms, etc, so maybe it's low brow! Argh! Then there are the performances, high brow! But then there are the judgments! Low brow! It's a Sisyphian task to tease this question apart! A veritable Gordian knot! Now I understand [insert impossibly erudite and esoteric anecdote concerning an impossible conundrum, here].

Just Do It!

How much are we giving Wall St.?

Not Political, cute, and hilarious

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One full-body Cringe, coming right up.

A friend directed me to this, which he found on Andrew Sullivan's blog. What follows is a frightening look at a segment of society many of us urbanites would prefer wasn't there. Prepare for three full minutes of "Oh my God! Oh my God!" And please check with your doctor ahead of time if you have a weak stomach.





I guess that I am an out-of-touch elitist. I don't want to believe that people like this actually exist and, worse yet, vote. Honestly, this woman is so drunk and has her head embedded so far into her anus that I don't have to judge her, she speaks for herself. Aside from being generally disgraceful, (yeah, I know I sound like Grandma), she's clearly one of the "undecideds" who can be swayed, not by the issues but by personal character. She says that she prefers Hillary and hasn't given up on her yet, so clearly she doesn't see herself as a McCain supporter. Still, she's exactly the sort of stupid that the McCain camp is hoping to influence by referring to Obama by his full name. She explicitly states that the real reason she won't vote for "Barack Hussein Obama" is because she doesn't want an "Ay-rab president" when we're at war with the Middle East. She thinks the "Ay-rabs are trying to sneak this guy in," I suppose as their puppet. To her credit, she doesn't have a problem with his being black, although her friends refer to blacks as "n*ggers," so we can imagine that they won't vote for him either. I have always been surprised that the depressed areas of the country so often vote against their own interests. Now, I'll expect it.

Oh yeah, and check out how the guy driving the... whatever it is, (did they drive over on their lawn mower?). They're leaving someone's house, clearly having partied a bit too much. See how he finishes off his beer and then just chucks the can into the yard in preparation to leave? That's being a good friend and neighbor!

I wonder if they survived the trip home?

Hilarious!

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Where's Obama?

I mean, I know that he's campaigning heavy and he's come out with new ads. Ads I'll never see except on youtube since I don't live in a "battleground" state. Still, he's totally gone from the news lately. What's up with that?

Sarah Palin, tax evader?

According to an article on the Huffington Post, Sarah Palin's tax returns are causing some confusion. For one thing, she didn't pay taxes on $60,000 worth of travel reimbursements, which should have been included according to their expert. Additionally, in 2007 Palin reported to the IRS that her income was about $108k, but according to a personal statement from Palin, her income last year was $197k.

As the most politically astute person I know says, tax evasion is the most amateurish mistake a political person could make. And when you consider that this is one half of the ticket running on reform of corruption, it just really sounds like super-easy irony. Like an After School Special for Beltway Babies.

Tee Hee!

Okay, two things.

1: He gets lost on the stage which isn't really all that big, just kind of funny. Not knowing which side you're going to exit could happen to anybody. It would certainly happen to me, but then I'm not running for president and trying to look other than a doddering old man.

2: I've seen people commenting on something weird going on with his left eye, and you can really see it here. I don't know if he's recovering from pink-eye or an itty-bitty stroke, but it's messed up.

Funny how the brain works.

I'm correcting my students' latest batch of quizzes and came across this, which is really intriguing if you're a geek. And since I am, here it goes. One of the sentences required that they write "he laughed." My student clearly forgot the verb so she made one up, laetravit, taking the adjective for "happy," laetus, a, um, and combining it with the verb meaning "he barked," latravit. I don't know if she did this on purpose or if her head simply combined the two words, but it makes a lot of sense.

Biden may have his work cut out for him tomorrow night.

According to an article from BBC News, Sarah Palin's presence can completely eclipse her actual lack of knowledge. Her former debate opponents have been bewildered at how she bewitches people with her folksy stories, in spite of her inability to answer questions with any substance. As others have pointed out, combine this with the low expectations that she's developed and, so long as she doesn't go completely over the falls on this one, she'll be seen as doing just fine.

Personally, I'm just hoping, praying that the American people remember her ridiculous performances with Gibson and Couric.