Sarah Palin is just like someone you know

The thing I find fascinating is that Sarah Palin was originally popular because people could relate to her as someone they knew from their everyday lives: the bubbly, over-achiever hockey mom who really gets involved in the community. Why she's fallen, hard, is that people realized she was in fact another person they knew from their everyday lives: that crazy mom who turns even the PTA into an insane obsessive power-play and forms weird hostile rivalries she executes through byzantine yet childish plots, seasoned with a dash of Fear of Anything Different.

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Oxymoron?

 

Hint: it's what's next to the logo on the main label.

Fail Blog

From the makers of I Can Has Cheezburger, the Fail Blog. Adults only. I especially liked Bambi, Air Conditioning, Sophistication, Playground, and Belt, and that's just from the first 3 pages.

Carl Lewis, Olympian

No, Tanya with an 'a'

There is a Tanya Harding on the Australian Olympic women's softball team. I wonder if she carries her bat around in case anyone makes a stupid joke. People always think they're the first ones to notice.

A lovely shot of Hillary Clinton

Taken from this article.

I've always wondered if the media uses pictures like that to show people who's really in control. There are too many unfortunate photographs that appear in the media for it to be anything but intentional. On the other hand, the NY Times doesn't seem likely to take shots at Hillary Clinton, given she's one of New York's senators, and they endorsed her in the primary...

The Economist on Senator Jim Webb

"He looks like an angry potato."

p.46, June 21, 2008 issue.

How many islands?

How many islands does Thousand Island Lake (in California) have? According to Wikipedia, "many."

I am neurotic

Are you neurotic? I won't tell you which ones, if any, are mine, although I'll cop to this one someone else submitted.

I did not submit my constant anagramming, as I consider that a compulsion rather than a neurosis. I did not submit but you will note in this post my inability to quote someone else's spelling errors without interjecting "(sic)."

I know some of you will read this and wonder how there are so many weird people out there. I also know some of you will read that list and think, "pfft, they think they're neurotic?"

Some that I liked (some excerpted... some not):

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  When I have to ask for directions and the location is fairly obvious, I'm always embarrassed. To avoid the humiliation, I ask in a British accent so my incompetence is socially accepted.
  


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  ...It’s not a germ or hygiene issue, but some deep violation of the symbiotic relationship between a man and his pen.
  


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  I have reoccurring (sic) dreams about my mouth being full of an unending amount of hair clippings....
  


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  When I eat Starburst, I can only eat them in the following order: yellow, orange, pink and red. I stop eating once I’ve run out of enough candies to complete the pattern.
  


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  Someone once told me they HATE the sound of dry toilet paper rubbing together. Now, this sound chafes me to the core and I’m afraid that after reading this blog, I’m going to develop all the neuroses that I read. Please help.
  


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  ...I cannot fall asleep if my ears are exposed.
  


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  Pain that I can’t see is CANCER
  


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  I have an imaginary key board on my hands... when I am anxious, stressed, in an intense conversation, etc.- I will fixate on one particular word, and type it on my fake key board over and over again...
  


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  I can’t use the bathroom (even my own) without checking to make sure no one is hiding in the shower. Crap. Now I'm going to do this.
  


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  I don’t like eating food that is softer than it looks. Like gnocci (sic). You expect some resistance, but it’s just mushy. It gives me a headache.
  


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  I am convinced that if I focus hard enough, I can actually cause an earthquake...
  


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  I am completely petrified of colonial times. This includes both the civil and revolutionary wars as well as any and all references to butter churning and red coats and their impending arrival...
  


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  When I ride in a car and there are lots of consecutive trees or perhaps a forest, I can’t look at the trees for too long for fear that my eyes are going to get poked out.
  


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  My favorite: When I was little, I would apologize to my stuffed animals if I dropped them or something, so they wouldn’t kill me in my sleep. I also tried to evenly divide my attention among them so no one got lonely or jealous, and tried to kill me in my sleep.
  

intimidation tip

"The Senior Partner does not share your optimism." I am convinced that slightly modified Darth Vader quotes are a badly under leveraged asset. I have been using them, and I think with good effect.

I recently found The Sardonic Memoirs of a Private Equity Professional. I quite enjoy it. Your mileage may vary, depending on how mean you are and whether you have a subscription to "The Economist." She thinks Guy Kawasaki is a tool, so points for that.

kudos for the pun

The collapse of an underground salt dome earlier this week is starting to eat away at Daisetta, TX. Some residents have begun calling it "the Sinkhole de Mayo." Whoever came up with that deserves the Nobel Prize, or at least the Medal of Freedom. Never mind that it didn't happen exactly on May 5th.

the midnight golfer

Back when "MadTV" was funny (really, it happened), they aired this classic skit:

twuirrel

A bird-feeder with a twist: when it detects the weight of a squirrel, a motor starts it a-spinnin':



Things didn't go quite as planned, though. They learned to hang on, and they liked it: