experimenting with sarah palin.

That title sounded dirty... But it did catch your attention.
Comedian Andy Zaltzman said yesterday, in this week's podcast of the Bugle, that listening to Sarah Palin speak was like hearing the sounds of the construction of something going on in your own house. Unfortunately, I whole-heartedly agree with that genius statement. I find myself unable to watch her being interviewed because it has become too painful- in the smacking my head against the table sort of pain. The way that she says, "I dunno" and "I'll get back to ya" in that almost-Canadian accent for every question asked makes me clench my teeth. And the fact that Sarah Palin just doesn't really know what's going on around her does not help the situation (or Mr. McCain's campaign).
So I decided to do a bit of an experiment. I attempted to watch an interview with Sarah Palin on mute, while still having Closed Captioning on. But I soon realised that watching her nearly-foreign slang being typed out for deaf people (and scientists such as myself) still made me run for that extra-strength Excedrin bottle that I keep near me at all times for emergencies such as this. However, I still had hope in my seemingly-bleak efforts to make watching Sarah Palin's interviews possible. I took off Closed Captioning and came up with what I thought the questions and answers could be through the ancient art of lip-reading. She suddenly began to seem much more brilliant and no longer spoke with a ridiculous accent.
Success!

[Lola.]

best friends bail each other out.

You know how all of the major stocks in the country went bankrupt and lost all of our money starting a few weeks ago? If that sentence was news to you, this must be an awkward situation… So, surprise! Chances are, anything you put your investments in no longer has said investments. And that also increases the probability that you have no money left. Congratulations- or, as the Jews say, “Mazel tov!” (We’re going cross-cultural here.) But don’t fear, because the $700 billion bailout plan for the market that everybody was flip-flopping on finally got passed. At first, it all seemed grim, because regardless of Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s attempts to convince the House to pass the bill- including blaming still-President-for-two-more-grueling-months Bush for the economic failures, and telling Wall Street that “the party is over”- it failed. Yesterday, however, the good people in the House of Representatives did something so unprecedented, so unexpected, so… let’s face it, it’s pretty bitchin’- they passed the bill. The House passed something. So it also took a $150 billion tax-cut incentive, but that doesn’t matter. No middle class workers are going to complain about losing more money. They’re saving the American economy, which means, that in some small, yet significant way, they are also saving the world (suck it, Heroes!).
… Hey, wait, I’m middle class. Oh dammit.

[Lola.]