I just saw a friend describe a really bad cheeseburger as a "grease-soaked cheese food with bread-like handles." Yum.

I stopped ordering the (lame) burgers at work when they started keeping the cooked patties warm in a thing of some sort of oil over a heater. They do something similar with the chicken breasts. I can't even look at them without feeling queasy.

The patties sit in the oil?

What prompted this from DH was that when we were discussing South Dakota, is that the entire state of SD has roughly the same population as the city of Columbus--but they get 3 electoral votes. I'm sure he could support his position with pie charts and graphs and stuff.

Actually, every mathematical analysis I've seen has shown that the electoral college gives more power to voters in larger states. Basically, it's true that a citizen of South Dakota has a bigger influence on where South Dakota's votes go than a citizen of Ohio has on where Ohio's votes go, but Ohio's votes have a bigger influence on where the country goes -- it's a pretty rare election that will be decided by South Dakota's three votes, whereas it's much more likely that Ohio going one way or the other will make a difference. Once you compute all the probabilities together, it ends up that the people in the bigger states have more power.

Personally, I don't totally like this analysis, because all the probabilities are built on the assumption that there's an equal chance of any outcome -- pretty much, when calculating how much power a citizen of Ohio has to influence the election, it goes with the assumption that there's an equal chance that California will go Democrat or Republican. I've played around with the numbers a little bit -- nothing formal, just some "hey, what if...?" things -- and pretty well convinced myself that the electoral college gives the most power to people in large swing states. (Which seems to be borne out pretty well by the real world -- Florida and Ohio would both count as large swing states.)

The patties sit in the oil?

Yes. It looks too viscous to not be oil, plus is slightly green.

"This is my family. I found it all on my own."

This is how I think of the Buffistas (a very large, complicated family, but a family).

Dad's Fred Astaire franchise is owned by a couple and the last dance of the exhibition/recital on Saturday was the guy and his youngest daughter to Butterfly Kisses. Normally I don't like that song, but about I started crying, it was so sweet.

Trudy's post has me laughing, thinking it's like FCM, turkey, duck, chicken.

Is it bedtime?

...what's the C in FCM again? Is it chuck? Or cuddle? Or what?

Chuck.

sending the get here ma~~ to Fay.

I have no math to back this up - but ( electoral college) taking a majority of the majority feels wrong, esp if things are close.