Something Someone Else Said

"But when the cloud of rhetoric has passed ... when the roar of the crowd fades away ... when the stadium lights go out, and those Styrofoam Greek columns are hauled back to some studio lot — what exactly is our opponent's plan? What does he actually seek to accomplish, after he's done turning back the waters and healing the planet?" -Sarah Palin, Republican vice-presidential nominee, in her speech attacking Barack Obama at the Republican National Convention

You might not remember Bush's 2004 convention but here's a picture:
See anything familiar? I know that John McCain doesn't know shit about the Internet but do these people really believe that about the rest of us? Their hubris is truly unfathomable.

Cyborg Celebrities

Celebrities and others are transformed through the magic of Phototshop (click image to enlarge).

The Earth Moved

Just a little 4.0 but it was quite close to me this time and I was outside when it occurred, a first for me. For those who have never had the pleasure to be present during an earthquake, your first thought is always "Where should I go?", to which the usual answer is a doorway or other reinforced structure. And when you're outside the thought is the same but it is quickly answered with the obvious: "Oh, I guess I just stand here". Definitely one of the more entertaining natural events I've been privy to.

Something Racist Someone Else Said

"Just from what little I’ve seen of her and Mr. Obama, Sen. Obama, they're a member of an elitist-class individual that thinks that they're uppity," Westmoreland said.

Asked to clarify that he used the word “uppity,” Westmoreland said, “Uppity, yeah.” -Lynn Westmoreland, Republican Representative from Georgia when asked to Compare Sarah Palin to Michelle Obama

I recently posted another of Westmoreland's greatest hits here.

Ridge Says What We're All Thinking

I'm beginning to believe that this Sigmund Freud character was on to something:

Who's Reading Brain Rage?

This map shows the location of the last 500 hits to this blog around the world; a little more diversified than we were about three months ago but we're still eagerly awaiting our first hit from the frozen continent of Antarctica. If any of you know any research scientists or penguin wranglers stationed down that way, please forward them a link to this site to help us crack the elusive seven-continent barrier; doing so would carry me to Roger Bannister-heights of elation. And yes, I recognize the sad, pathetic emptiness of that accomplishment.

Sarah Palin Gender Card

I know I've been leaning on these Daily Show clips a bit much lately but this period during the conventions is when their political coverage truly shines and this clip is no exception; it's pretty sad that we have to rely on comedy shows to provide the clearest perspective on our political system but there you are. In this clip Stewart explores two separate Karl Roves, discovers the gestation period for the discussion of teen pregnancy and comes to the defense of Dick Morris. Right wing hypocrisy has never been so funny:

Something Someone Else Said

"Lets really look at the experience comparison:

Obama:
B.A in political science from Columbia University, with a specialization in international relations
J.D. in Law from Hardvard, graduated magna cum laude; President of the Harvard Law Review
12 years (92-04) teaching constitutional law
7 years State Senator: sponsored more than 800 bills
4 years Senator for Illinos, a state with 12.8 million people

Palin:
Bachelor's in journalism from University of Idaho
4 years Wasilla City Council (8000 people)
6 years Wasilla mayor (8000 people)
1 year "Ethics Commissioner of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission"
20 months governor of a state with 660,000 people

Do the Republicans really think we're so stupid that we would believe Palin is more experienced than Obama? Give me a break…" -commenter on CNN.com about Sarah Palin's remarks in her Republican National Convention speech last night

Category 5 Shitstorm

Jon Stewart explains on the first day of the Republican National Convention why politicians want to seem human, why we wear our American hats and why hookers and blow can sometimes embarrass you on the national stage:

Something Someone Else Said

"The one moment that stays with me tonight, oddly enough, was not Palin's speech. It was a line from Giuliani, a New York mayor with a young second third wife and gay friends, mocking a "cosmopolitan" who was brought up by a single mother. It was that Barack Obama's rise could "only happen in America." And it was designed to mock him, the first African-American candidate for the presidency of the United States.

I won't forget that." -Andrew Sullivan, The Daily Dish, on the third night of the Republican National Convention