Fuck! George Saunders!

That's it! He's right! Palin is so familiar to me because she sounds like my students.

McCain Fear of Palin Presidency Caught on Tape:

Listen:

Things I am qualified to do because of my proximity to them:

1. Major metropolitan public transit planning: because I can see the red line from my house.
2. Multi-million dollar real estate development: I live in the same city as the Sears Tower.
3. NASA administration: Buzz Aldrin was in Chicago once, and I met him. Additionally, Chicago has both sky and stars.
4. Determine the best course of action for the growing global warming issue: I live on planet Earth, unlike Sarah Palin, who lives in Fraggle Rock. John McCain is one of those big ogres who lives above and stomps around scaring Sarah, which is why no one ever sees her unless McCain is nowhere to be found.
5. I also have oceanographic expertise because I can see Lake Michigan from my house.

Stellar references are available upon request.

I can see Alaska from my house!

If only we could mismanage money this way:

National Endowment For The Arts Funds Construction Of $1.3 Billion Poem

From the Huffington Post:

Too little, too late? I hope not, or we're packing up the truck and moving to Toronto.

Go here for a more comprehensive and even hand about our current political situation. I've not got the stomach for it right now, after ingesting too much Palin.

Oh, and there's no 9/11 blog because I was at the hospital: it's also my new niece's birthday.

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