Get Cynical

I’m trying really hard to limit my Palin posts but every single time I say “That’s it. No more Palin posts for the night,” she says something else that makes you expect the camera to pan quickly to the right to a smoking Rod Serling telling us that we are indeed in The Twilight Zone. But Serling never appears. Something somewhere has gone wrong and we’re stuck watching as a woman who could possibly be president in a few weeks rattles on, mostly incoherently, mocking the age of the vice presidential candidate of the other party who is 6 years younger than her running mate who is the one trying to be elected President.

Hell, Saturday Night Live realized that they couldn’t write funnier lines than the answer that Palin gave to Couric and just had Fey say them verbatim. We’re 5 weeks away to electing Poe’s Law to the Vice Presidency of the U.S. of W.T.F.

(via PoeTV)

This is the hoodie you’re looking for.

(via Gizmodo)

(Thanks Patrick)

I love that besides the couple in the back who raises their hands for both candidates (or is his wife oppressing him?), the only other person to raise their hand for McCain is the Fox News reporter who then declares the vote split. His math is broken.

It’s that gotcha journalism that gots her again.

Actually, this sounds familiar. Wasn’t there someone else who hated to read anything in the news? Oh, that’s right:

But when he is on the receiving end, Bush prefers his news heavily filtered. “I glance at the headlines, just to get kind of a flavor,” he told Brit Hume of Fox News last month. But, “I rarely read the stories” because “a lot of times there’s opinions mixed in with news.” Instead, “I get briefed by [White House Chief of Staff] Andy Card and Condi [Rice, the national security adviser] in the morning.”

Awesome.

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Just took a quick trip to the book store and walking back I saw a blind man with a guide dog walking on the busy sidewalk. He inadvertently bumps into a woman.

“Hey!” shrieks the flustered woman. “What’s the matter with you? Can’t you see?”

“No,” he responds as he keeps walking. “Actually, I can’t see a thing.”

From Salon:

Unbeknown to most, Wallace had suffered from clinical depression for the past two decades. Family and close friends knew of it, but few others did. Over those years, Wallace had taken powerful anti-depression medication that had allowed him to work and write, according to his father, James Donald Wallace. But recently the drugs had been having very serious side effects. In June of 2007, Wallace and his doctor decided that they would have to try another course of treatment.

“Going off the medication was just catastrophic,” his father remembers. “Severe depression came back. They tried all kinds of things. He was hospitalized twice. Over the summer, he had a series of electro-convulsive therapy treatments, which just really left him very shaky and very fragile and unable to sleep.”

Suffering from near-crippling anxiety, Wallace found himself unable to write. “I don’t think he’d been able to write for more than a year,” says his father. Wallace told the human resources department at Pomona College that he would be unable to teach there in the fall, and he was granted a medical leave for the fall semester.

From The Charlotte Observer:

FORT MILL, S.C. — Fort Mill Mayor Danny Funderburk says he was “just curious” when he forwarded a chain e-mail suggesting Democratic Presidential Candidate Barack Obama is the biblical antichrist. “I was just curious if there was any validity to it,” Funderburk said in a telephone interview. “I was trying to get documentation if there was any scripture to back it up.”

Funderburk apparently sent the e-mail from his business account at Gastonia Sheet Metal where he works as a business agent.

The e-mail, which has circulated in the last six months since Obama secured the Democratic nomination, claims the biblical book of Revelation says the antichrist will be in his 40s and of Muslim ancestry.

There is no such scripture. And Obama is not a Muslim. But that hasn’t stopped the e-mail.

The urban legend Web site Snopes.com first exploded the myth in March. Funderburk forwarded the e-mail this month.

When asked if he believed Obama was the antichrist, Funderburk replied, “I’ve got absolutely no way of knowing that.”

I give up.