Don’t have enough time to do anything but read all the comments (y’all are on fire) and make this:

Just to show how big an internet/blog dork I am, when my chemistry professor walked in the room today, I half-expected him to say, “So how ’bout that Palin!? WOOOOO!!!” He did not. I was deflated.

I forget that not everyone pays attention or even gives a tiny little shit. I overheard two students in the row in front of me, who looked about 20 years old, and one of whom asked the other, “Are you watching the politics?”, and the other answered, “Nah, that shit is boring,” to which the first replied, “Yeah, it’s totally gay but my mom is all excited. Lame! Heh heh.”

Morons.

…

Also - a few weeks ago, I’d decided I didn’t give a shit, either, and that I wasn’t going to vote for McCain. Since Friday, as I’ve frantically posted several times, I’m voting ALL OVER HIM because of Palin. Regular commenter MightySamurai gives a good summation of why lots of people are probably (I hope) going to do the same thing now.

Most of you probably know me as one of the more vocal detractors of Senator John McCain on this blog. I had a laundry list of complaints against him (and I mean, literally, I actually wrote them all down one time) and I made no secret of the fact that I did not support him and would not be voting for him.

But in light of McCain’s selection of Sarah Palin as his running mate, I’d like to take this opportunity to say…..I was wrong.

I thought John McCain (and the Republican Party in general) had totally abandoned conservatism. I thought McCain was a liberal Republican with no respect or regard for the conservative base and would “throw us under the bus” if he were elected President. And I was sure that the final proof of that would be when he inevitably chose a very liberal Republican (or worse, an actual Democrat) as his running mate. But I was wrong.

John McCain’s choice of Sarah Palin as his VP nominee has made it clear that he DOES have some loyalty to the conservative base. By nominating a strong, well-spoken, accomplished, highly conservative running mate, John McCain has reassured us all that in fact he DOES, in fact, lend an ear to conservative concerns. Not only that, he’s united the conservative base, ended the infighting on the right, and driven the left absolutely bonkers with rage, exposing them for the hateful bigots and hypocrites they are.

He’s also managed to do what I once thought to be nigh impossible. By nominating Sarah Palin, John McCain has made conservatism popular again. He’s shown that when Republicans act like Republicans instead of acting like Democrats, people will support them again. He’s proven to the Republican Party that if they only start actually acting like conservatives again, conservatives will rally around them again like we used to.

Lastly, and perhaps most importantly, by nominating Palin as VP McCain has elevated a solid conservative politician to the national stage. Whether McCain wins or loses this election, expect to see Sarah Palin around for a while. Perhaps even as the Republican Presidential candidate in 2012 or 2015.

Bam.

UPDATE:

We have a new upstart in the sport of demotivators! Basically if it makes me laugh out loud, I will re-post it. This one made me LOL - it sure did - because he nailed the accent somehow. By The Watcher:

I just watched the Palin RNC convention speech, and I am enchanted. She’s serious without being scary. Sarcastic without being nasty. Not to mention, her accent charmed my pants right off.

I blurted out loud at one point to Rupert, “Oh my god! I’m naming all of my children after her!” Which is quite a thing to say for someone who never plans on making any children. That’s how much I like this woman.

Anyway. Some of you have already commented on the speech in the last thread but let’s make this the official Pain Train thread (thanks, Bonnie, for that phrase).

Exit question: did anyone else happen to flip over to MSNBC about 5 minutes after the speech, to see Andrea Mitchell very bitterly questioning Rudy Giuliani? That woman could not possibly have been more revolted and grim.

UPDATES

I’m with Donna B. from the comment thread, and I second-third-fourth her nomination of Piper for Secretary of Infant Hair Care.

If you had the severe misfortune to miss the speech, here it is in full. My favorite bit, which commenter Page says made him happy in the pants (rowr! me too) was this:

I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a “community organizer,” except that you have actual responsibilities. I might add that in small towns, we don’t quite know what to make of a candidate who lavishes praise on working people when they are listening, and then talks about how bitterly they cling to their religion and guns when those people aren’t listening.

Speaking of happy in the pants, JimK has been nominated and seconded for the Chuck Norris Action Jeans Unique Hidden Gusset Award for this:

Good Lord, I so wanna vote for her. I wanna vote all over her.

Oh god, I can’t stop. So if you didn’t see the speech but don’t have time to watch the whole thing, Right Wing News and Hot Air both have best-of compilation videos.

Jim Carson pointed me to a great one-line review by Jonah Goldberg:

She was put on this earth to do two things: kill caribou and kick butt. She’s all out of caribou.

Okay. Now I have to go learn some chemistry. Even though I feel like I just got a master lesson in it from watching Sarahcuda. The lady has CHOPS.

Sarahcuda* has not only spurred certain factions on the left to great new heights of dishonesty, hatred, and rumor-mongering, she’s also bringing out the kind of hilarity and appropriate nut-punching that I’ve missed on the internet lately. Three items for your review:

First and best, via Althouse, a comedy video imagining the phone call from McCain to Sarahcuda asking her to be VP. I haven’t enjoyed 3 minutes on YouTube this much in my entire life.

Second, Jim Treacher mocks Washington Post writer Howard Kurtz:

After four days of telling silence from the McCain camp, Palin finally deigned to reappear in public yesterday. In a followup press conference, Palin, who is a girl, lashed out at the media.

…Shaking her head in a transparent attempt to feign exasperation, Palin — who is perhaps not as pretty as she thinks she is — then left the podium…

And finally, for the nut-punching you’ve been patiently waiting for. Surely you are acquainted with one Miss Megyn Kelly of Fox News; if you’re not, I feel sorry for you. She’s so pretty that it actually hurts to look at her, especially lately with her Farrah hair, WHICH I LOVE. More importantly, she’s smart and she brooks no bullshit, and I have loved her for years in ways that confuse me and intrigue my boyfriend.

Anyway, if you want to see a gorgeous blonde kill, gut, dress, and eat a gossip magazine reporter for breakfast, here you go (via Hot Air):

Ouch, Bradley. Just ouch.

*Palin was called Sarah Barracuda in school. I have officially adopted the practice of identifying her henceforth as Sarahcuda.

Just saw this at Ace of Spades.

Heh. Snorf. Awesome.

There’s even a Tigh/Roslin ‘08 blog, too.

And how about:

Hillary Clinton = Doc Cottle

George Dubya Bush/Karl Rove = BaseStar Ship/Hybrid

I wish I had more time, I’d find pics and do this right. God, I can’t wait until January! Palin as VP and new episodes of BSG.

It’s no secret amongst those who know me that I’m a total asshole when it comes to spelling, punctuation, and grammar mistakes. Never in my life have I insulted anyone to their** face…except over this issue. It’s a personal failing and a character flaw that I just can’t overcome, mostly because I don’t want to. I figure, as long as I try to avoid judging and belittling decent people based on things they can’t control, it’s okay to judge and belittle them about things they can.

(It just occurred to me, that would make a great name for a band: Judge and Belittle. Like Hall and Oates, only meaner.)

So there’s this article with 20 examples of grammar misuse, and it’s fine as far as it goes, but frankly it doesn’t begin to cover everything. We’ll get to what they left off later, but first, I have to commend them for recognizing one of my favorites as #1: using “of” instead of “have.”

As in, “You should of been more careful.” I see it all the time and it makes me crazy all the time. HAVE, people. Have. You should have learned better as a child.

What really gets me about this one is, don’t the people who do this ever notice the contractions should’ve, could’ve, and would’ve? What do they think the ‘ve signifies for crissakes?

They put another of the worst offenders at #6: someone pretentiously using “I” instead of “me.” As in, “The vacation was a lot of fun for my husband and I.” Or, “This project is a lot of work for Susan and I.”

Do people just not pay attention in school or were their teachers stupid? Because I distinctly remember in roughly 4th grade being taught that you have to use the pronoun that would also be correct if you left the other person out of it. “This project is a lot of work for…me.” There you go.

What bugs me most about that one is that people only do it because they’re trying to sound all proper and classy. You know?

By the way, before I go further, I admit I make mistakes sometimes too. Even in public and in writing, right here. My own mother called me out a few months ago on my failure to properly enclose punctuation within quotation marks; I was putting periods and commas after the marks, and Mom The College Professor said I needed to shape up. So I did. I hope you’ve noticed, Mom! See I do listen sometimes.

Back to the list, like I said, they didn’t even get two of the worst offenses on there and for that I shall never forgive them. I’m talking about incorrect use of apostrophes and quotation marks. Dogette and I have “had” a lot of “fun” with this in emails back and “forth,” and it hasn’t stopped being hilarious yet. I don’t think it ever will.

Thanks to her blogroll, I discovered my two new favorite blogs in all the world, the first being The “Blog” of “Unnecessary” Quotation Marks. They have pics like this:

And this:

The whole “site” makes me “LOL” my ass off.

And then there’s Apostrophe Abuse, with equally awesome pics.

And…

Which reminds me of one of the biggest fights I ever had with a man. I had a boyfriend once whose last name was not Williams but was a name exactly like that, a name ending in S. Just like Jones, Collins, or even Lucas. Granted, there was a consonant before the S, like in Williams, BUT STILL. THAT DOESN’T MATTER.

Anyway, his stepmother made him a door decoration thingy that said, and I quote precisely except for the name change:

Welcome To The William’s

He brought this object home. He got some nails and took it to the front door. He hung it. I stood there and tried not to be mean.

I was gentle at first. “Uh, dude, that apostrophe shouldn’t be there.”

At first he actually argued with me about the factual data at hand and whether or not the apostrophe was even really incorrectly used. He wasn’t much of a reader or a writer, and he genuinely thought it was fine because it indicated that the house was his. You know, possessive apostrophe use. Or if there was more than one Williams there, it denoted the plurality.

Oh. My. God.

I told him that would be like making a sign for my door that says Welcome to the Luca’s. Exactly the same. The exact same thing. Not different IN ANY WAY AT ALL, FOR THE LOVE OF JESUS.

Speaking of Jesus! It would be like doing that to him, too! Welcome to Jesu’s!

I use all those exclamation points in the telling of this because I really was that amped up at the time and I seriously had to explain it like that. And that the S on the end of Williams is part of the name just like every other letter in it is, and has nothing to do with plurals or possession or anything else, any more than the letters W and M and L do in the same name.

The honest-to-God truth is that this entire conversation was the most frustrating conversation I’ve ever had in my entire life. No lie. Don’t get me wrong, he was a very nice guy, a very decent and caring individual. Just not good with grammar. And that is something I could not abide because I am a judgmental asshole about this kind of thing.

Anyway, once he figured out that I was right about the actual issue of the apostrophe, he adopted the Scoff Technique: “No one will notice but you, Rachel. Quit being so picky about little things, no one else cares, don’t be such a nerd.”

Yeah. We had a huge fight, the kind of fight you don’t like to tell any details of because it’s just too painful. I tried to make the point that the problem is precisely that no one cares, and it’s the little things that ultimately DESTROY CIVILIZATION!!! but he was having none of it. He was all, “you’re crazy” and I was all “you’re stupid” (what? we were 23 years old) and it wasn’t long after that we broke up.

I will close with my all-time favorite from the Apostrophe Abuse blog, which should also be on the Unnecessary Quotation Marks blog for that matter:

**UPDATE: Ahhh, you have rots to rearn about disciprine! I don’t know why, this just makes me think of that.

Anyway, someone already called me out in comments for a blatant error in this very post, where I said I’ve never punched “anyone” in “their” face. BUSTED! Yeah, that’s wrong. I own it. I really don’t mind having that shit pointed out to me; in fact, if people didn’t do that, I’d make mistakes a lot more “oftener.”

And don’t forget gravitas. And nuance.

Ace of Spades has some of the Daily Kos comments that prove once and for all that they care more about the country than anyone else. DON’T QUESTION THEIR PATRIOTISM.

“If health insurance for all, an end to the Iraq War, an end to torture and illegal wiretapping, and a sane energy policy can be obtained at the price of destroying one teenage girl, her family, and the surrendering our self-respect I see that as a cheap trade.”

And:

“Are you telling me that you would not use character-destroying lies to ensure a war against Iran does not occur? . . . What choice do we have? When faced with monsters, we have to be monstrous ourselves.”

And:

Are you telling me you would not destroy the love a family holds for one another, even if it meant letting someone who would destroy the constitution become president?

Jesus Quincy Frederick Christ.

Someone asked me recently why anyone gives a shit what is written on the Kos site. This is why:

A presidential candidate takes them seriously; that’s a pretty good argument for paying attention to them.

I stole that pic from Right Wing News, which also has a post about Michelle Malkin that you can reference every time I say I absolutely REFUSE to ever try to be a serious political blogger and why I don’t put more than two pictures of myself on my entire blog and you wonder why. Because that’s what happens to women (who aren’t liberals) who get too mouthy. You can talk about growing a thick skin all you want, I don’t give a shit. Those people scare me and I don’t want to piss them off. Sorry. YOU do it. YOU get yourself photoshopped with a fish hook in your mouth, and called a whore and a c*nt. Have fun with that.

Me? I have some more dog pics to upload.

As fascinated as I am by the political hijinks going on, I have to pace myself and also avoid hate mail, so I’m still refusing to do anything blog-wise today but post pictures of dogs because that’s the best way I can express my excitement and enthusiastic demeanor.

My parents have a “rover” cleaner in their pool that, if you bring it slightly out of the water, shoots a stream a long distance. Maggie has a penchant for viciously attacking this stream as though it is liquid possum; she also barks at it and does 360-degree spins to intimidate it. You can spray it straight in her face and she doesn’t flee, she simply escalates her tactics.

Yes. I did take video. I’ll have it up in a day or two and you will laugh or your heart is dead.

She has no taste for rules, however, such as No Running Around The Pool.

Again I put the rest below the fold because while I am a belligerent dog-bloggin’ fool, I’m not THAT out of control.

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We took the dogs out to my parents’ place this weekend and I discovered whole new aspects of their personalities involving hot weather and a cool pool, such as what you see above. She is very, very angry at the water and spent quite a long time trying to kill it.

I have many more pics from this adventure but it’s time to go to class so the rest will be published as Very Important Updates to this post later today. You can’t wait. For your Palin fix, there are approximately 7 trillion fine blogs feverishly covering that as we speak. I figure, here, what we need is some crazy-ass dogs.

UPDATE #1

Before we get back to Maggie’s water-murderin’ shenanigans, some commenters asked what Sunny was doing all this time, so let’s go over that for a moment. You see, Sunny is a lazy animal. Even when you entice her with activities and stimuli loved by dogs all the world over, she’ll typically choose to do something like this instead:

Man and other dog doing something fun? No thank you. I prefer to remain still.

I won’t punish my entire front page with dog pics so the rest is below the fold.

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More links to other blogs because I’m too busy reading them to write my own:

Ace of Spades has noticed a lot of new commenters with interesting new opinions. I’ve noticed the same thing, not so much on my blog but on lots that I read. Plus I just saw myself referred to as a “right-wing nut job” on another blog’s comment thread, which will keep me mildly confused for days. Archives, people. Seriously.

The Anchoress analyzes the left and it reminds me exactly why I stopped blogging politics and why I will again very soon, as in today.

Melissa Clouthier on feminists in all this.

Most interesting election ever. Hands down.

This is the most fun I’ve had on the internet since Al Gore invented it. Holiday weekends are usually the slowest but this one is like a turbo bullet train and I’m totally enchanted and mesmerized. Not even so much about Palin herself as the reaction to her on both sides, such as the right’s giant collective woody and the left’s giant collective fetal-position thumb-sucking crying-itself-to-sleep heartache. How’s the left dealing with everything? With pure solid-gold class, that’s how.

Protein Wisdom has a fantastic roundup of the insanity, and Ace of Spades has many quotes from liberal sites that you seriously might not want to read because like he says, it’ll make your teeth hurt.

And who can doubt that the announcement that 17-year-old Palin daughter Bristol is preggers will drive certain leftists completely off the deep end in an orgy of impotent joy that now they can drag a minor into the election combat zone? This is the best news they’ve heard in weeks so you can’t blame them for their ecstasy. The only thing that might make them happier is if she had an abortion.

Hope! Change!

Meanwhile, both Michael Moore and Former DNC Chairman Don Fowler have said that the hurricane hitting New Orleans on the first day of the RNC convention is proof that God is on their side. Cassy has the videos.

The elegance, maturity, and flat-out gravitas of these people is simply making me swoon.

But no one and I mean no one can match the charm and sophistication of my new Biggest Fan, who posted four comments between 2:09 and 2:32 p.m. yesterday, all with the same IP address but each with a different fake email address and different moniker, clearly meant to showcase his or her cleverness and creativity. I already told Rupert I’m leaving him for this genius. Rupert cried a little but when I showed him the comments, he completely understood and was actually a little jealous because he, too, wants this person so very, very badly.

Marry Me | Aug 31, 2:09 PM

All the Repubican women were looking mighty arrogant today, more so than normal! They had a new perky gleam in their eyes, as if the election had won and now Palin was the new President! er, Vice President!
I wasn’t going to vote for McCain before this! Now I am surely going to vote for O’Bama in November! What kind of sexual favor did Karl Rove have to enact to get Palin to accept? Gawd.
Like I give a crap about the anti god abortion stance. F’ing stupid Alaskin Beaver.

Miss My rights | Aug 31, 2:11 PM

fuck you and your fucking bullshit blog asswipe woman.

Jennifer Micaels | Aug 31, 2:14 PM

Hi! I am just so excited about our new Vice President! I could just HUG McCain and the party for this wonderful gift to our country! I too am a huntress, and I skin all my kills and drape them all over my house and office! I also have been accused of abusing power ! Once when my exboyfriend who used to work for my brother, was caught cheating on me, I managed to get him beat up good! I can’t wait for the election! I am all for corrupt government! Just like the last 8 years! PRO LIFE PRO LIFE!!!!!! MCCAIN/PALIN!!!!

Marirose Flecher | Aug 31, 2:32 PM

yeah, I saw all kinds of enthusiasts just like this last week on the Democratic convention! All 80,000 plus people packed into the Denver Mile High Stadium!! I don’t think they are very impressed by some chick who can run out to her backyard and kill a grizzly bear, eating her bird and squirrel seeds, and someone who can stand in a river and net a salmon, cause its ALASKA! duh. Also, we have always been suckered into the stupid Pro Life crap, hey, what is her stance on gays btw? Just wondering, that should come up next . Joe Biden has a lot of kids too, 2 of them he raised without his first wife a couple of really hard years. I just don’t think me and the gals are gonna go throwing a big gala party and raise money for a losing battle , McCain/Palin. She’s being investigated for abuse of power isn’t she? Had fired someone because they wouldn’t fire her brother in law? Nasty divorce between bro in law and her sister? Yeah, she’s being investigated. All isn’t well. don’t go getting too excited. If you lived in Alaska you could find a bear just about anywhere, well, no , not on the polar ice, anymore. What’s her stance on the environment? What? too busy hunting and abusing her power you say? hmmm…. no, all is not well in the McCain Camp. Im with Obama Biden. At least, they aren’t corrupt.

Of course, these were caught by my moderation filter and I didn’t clear them for publication because I felt that my admiration and desire for this person were better served by sharing the greatness with all who can handle it. But none of you better get any funny ideas! This master of nuance and ennui is alllll mine, baby.

From Jim Carson, genius:

And the money rolls rolls rolls in. On the order of $7 MILLION.

Also, if anyone hasn’t already seen this: VPILF.

Is it just me or have the political (and even non-political) blogs in general completely exploded over this? The Corner is going nuts, as is every other site I regularly check.

Good lord. The entire Republican base seems to have a major figurative or literal boner. I’m sorry, that’s crude. The truth hurts.

More on the “first dude.” And how he and their son aren’t even Republicans. Oh God. Just oh God. This woman is freaking everyone OUT. Which makes me love her even more than I did before.

Saucy minx.

Another one from Jim Carson:

If you’re lucky, that saucy minx is your next vice president.

Gotta admit, I’m totally stoked right now about McCain’s VP pick. I’ve had a crush on Palin for a while, a purely platonic-but-I’d-have-her-babies-if-she-asked-me crush, and I don’t care what anyone says, she’s perfect for this.

I’m going to have a very hard time refraining from politics blogging now though. Thanks, Sarah, you naughty naughty maverickette.

I realize many of you still loathe McCain with the intensity of an atom bomb and this won’t change your choice to not vote for him, and I can dig that, but we will have to agree to disagree. Because I am going to vote my ASS off for that ticket now. I’d been on the fence for the past few months because some of my good friends such as Nicki presented so many convincing arguments that I dare say are rooted in much more knowledge and political awareness than I myself possess.

But this week with all the Obama/Biden shit, a week now culminating in the luminescence of one Mrs. Sarah Palin on the McCain ticket, has knocked me back off the fence squarely into the Please Vote McCain For the Love of God camp. I’m all over this ticket like Sunny on a pork chop.

For those unfamiliar with our fair lady, Ed Morrissey at Hot Air has a good rundown, and Ace of Spades has more. And also more here, about how the Obama camp is dumb enough to criticize her for “lack of experience.”

There’s only one answer for that particular charge:

UPDATE

I can’t help myself. I don’t even have time today to jack with the internet but it is beyond my control; I’m simply delirious about Palin and all the very bad things she’s going to do for the Obama campaign, and just HOLY SHIT. She and her husband are union members. They hunt and shoot, her nickname used to be Sarah Barracuda, she has five kids (including an infant with Down’s)…she’s simply the kind of chick that even other women like, and that is no small feat.

Plus, her youngest daughter is such a cute little turkey that even my cold heart warms a little at this picture.

That’s right, I’m a hard-hitting political journalist who knows what’s important. Still though. I love that kid! Give her to me!

ANOTHER UPDATE

Jim Carson did this:

And 14 Karat did this:

Does it officially make me an old person if the most distressing thing about chemistry lecture for me today was the clothes some of these morons in my class were wearing? Forget significant figures and conversion factors and exponential notation; that stuff is cake. What is not cake is grasping the finer points of what has become socially acceptable fashion-wise amongst…The Youth of Today.

Two rows ahead of me sat a boy whose entire ass was covered with one thin layer of boxer briefs. I shit you not. I had the distinct displeasure of watching him lumber through a few aisles of crowded seats to take his place. I looked on in fear and horror as he climbed over a row of seats while holding onto his pants with one hand; I was very concerned that he’d drop them and we’d all be exposed to something we do not want to be exposed to. Why would he have to hold onto his pants you ask? Well of course because the waistband of his pants was not at his waist but at his thighs. As in, below his ass. Because he was sporting Prison Chic for some ungodly reason.

Like this (except he was white):

Why would he do this? Why would any functioning adult person DO THIS?? I can see him waking up this morning and saying to himself, “I’m gonna go to chemistry class with my pants fastened around my legs and my shirt tucked into my underwear so that everyone can see my ass through my very thin WHITE boxers all day long. I will look so good.”

Fuckin’ retard.

I expect to see that shit on an episode of Cops, but in chemistry class? NO.

Meanwhile, over to my right were two girls modeling the extremely attractive, VERY SEXY look we all know as The Muffin Top:

It’s so 2005, you know? But they’re still doing it, oh yes they are.

But enough about fashion catastrophes. The good news is that while I am by all appearances the oldest student in the chemistry class (36 for the newbies), I’m not the most ancient in the Plant Biology class. That honor goes to a distinguished-looking gentleman, white of hair and crotchety of attitude. I think I love him for existing.

Madame Margaret did much better with my departure today, mostly because Rupert had just finished taking her on an exhausting walk and she was too busy panting to notice me. You may ask yourself why Sunny did not also go on this walk and I will tell you. Because she weighs 95 pounds and Rupert is still postop from neck surgery and under strict physician command not to push, pull, lift, or otherwise handle more than 25 pounds of ANYTHING. And that dog, like I keep telling you, is an asshole. The kind of asshole who knows physics and comprehends that if she desires to stop and sniff something, the person on the other end of the leash will stop too, whether they like it or not. Thus she can only be walked by me: the human without a massive neck injury.

Lest anyone think I’m a cold, distant bitch of a blogger, I did notice some questions in the last thread about the college stuff and I will answer them this weekend. Also, I’m so far behind on email that it’s not funny anymore but I’m hoping at least my friends and family know that I’m not dead and that I will catch up this weekend.

For now, I must eat chicken and get ready to watch the Speech of the HopeChange Messiah. Might need some whiskey for this.

Rupert and I were watching Bill Clinton give his speech last night and couldn’t help but notice how incredibly stupid adults look when they wave 3-foot high/6-inch wide placards - with someone else’s name on them - in the air. Especially when every single person in the entire room does so and thus you can’t see any actual people. Just placards. It’s stupid.

Another thing I couldn’t help but notice is that Bill Clinton is still an asshole.

Also, Rupert was in the kitchen making dinner - barefoot - when some of this was going on and he made the very cogent point that if he didn’t already know that the two voices he was hearing were Bill O’Reilly’s and Karl Rove’s, he would swear that what was on the TV was an NFL game, with all the screaming and yelling and rock music in the background.

Anyway, I have too much school shit to do this morning to play with the blog so I figured, open thread time! What does everyone think about the convention? How about Obama’s speech tonight? Precisely how empty, pointless, vacuous, and “glamorous” will it be? I give it a presumptive 10 out of 10 on that scale, myself.

(Reminder about comments: about 10% of them still go to moderation automatically, which I won’t be on the computer for a few hours to clear out. Sorry about that but it’s spam warfare and you are innocent victims caught in the crossfire.)

I was testing the light and stuff so that I could put a feather on her face. Because ridgeback must earn her treats.

You are just getting ridiculous now, human. Jesus.