with Tina Fey’s impression of Sarah Palin is that in order for an impression to really work the fake person must be, at least a little, more ridiculous than the real person.
Tina Fey’s Palin, no matter how hard she tries, will never be able to come off dumber than Real Palin does.
We listened to the first hour of tonight’s debate in the car and watched the last thirty or so. There’s a BIG difference to watching it.
The one thing I noticed on viewing that wasn’t there for the hearing was the way McCain stood there smirking while Obama talked. He looked smug and kind of douchey.
I have discovered a new law of nature. Marvel at my intellectual might!!
N = S +3
This is the mathematical expression of this truth.
No matter the size of my desk (S), I need (N) it to be three feet bigger. Thus N = S +3.
I have named this after myself.
Let the fame and accolades begin.
In light of all of the running and screaming that is going on on Wall Street I have a question that maybe someone can answer that has more knowledge of economics than I do (which would include most everyone). When the government sat down last weekend (and that’s another question, which member of the government make this decision?) and saw that Lehman Brothers, AIG, Meryll Lynch, and Fred’s Bank were all on the verge of collapse, how do they decide which ones to bail out and which ones to let collapse?
Is there a litmus test? Are there certain criteria that must be met before a company gets to survive? I’ve seen a lot of stories stating that this decision was made, but no one has said why one and not the other.
In my ignorance of this issue, I have this fear that the choice gets made because there is a relationship between the people running the ones who get saved and the people doing the saving. With no other information as to why, this is where my mind goes.
Can anyone confirm, or disconfirm this suspicion?
I heard a story today I found, on its face, quite gross, but on reflection poses a few interesting questions.
It seems that at one point last year a group of seventh grade boys collected $280 and paid another student to drink his own piss.
I know your reaction, like mine, was yuck.
I also know that your second reaction was, "That’s not enough money for me to do that."
Followed by a quick mental calculation of how much it would cost for you to WaterWorld.
I know this because when I heard the story, that’s what I thought, then when I told Adam, that’s what he thought.
Usually, Adam and I following a similar train of thought is neither abnormal, nor indicative of a larger pattern, but here I think it holds.
Before you judge this boy too harshly, I’d like you to consider a few mitigating factors.
1.) Drinking a cup of your own urine is not, as far as I know, lethal, which means that there’s a price at which you would do this. It might be a really high price, but there’s a price.
2.) $280 seems like a small sum of money, but consider that these are not adult dollars. These are 7th grade dollars. When I was in 7th grade I used to go my future High School on Saturdays following home football games to search for change that had fallen out of people’s pockets the night before. If I found $5 I would be ecstatic. $280 would have been a king’s ransom.
3.) What is $280 7th grade dollars adjusted to adult dollars? I’m going to Packer Method this thing and call it at least a 5:1 adult to kid ratio. Meaning that $280 kid dollars is roughly $1400 adult dollars. It may be even more lopsided than that. Is $1400 in the ball park for your price?
What do you think? Was I right about your reaction? Did the kid get suckered, or get over?
Turns out I was wrong. John McCain knows more than I do.
It turns out he did go Full-Crazy-Alaska.
I so underestimated the craziness of Sarah Palin. To be fair, at the time I didn’t know that she, knowing her unborn child would have to live his life dealing with Down Syndrome, decided that the way to ease his burden in life would be to name him Trig.
