The elevator told me this morning that almost 40% of people with 401(k) plans that offer company stock as an investment option have more than 20% of their savings in company shares. Have people learned nothing from Enron?

I feel like this is almost flogging a dead horse, but:

1)The horse isn't dead yet.

2)The funny (and in this case, disturbing) just keeps coming.

Palin's Church May Have Shaped Controversial Worldview

Speaking before the Pentecostal church, Palin painted the current war in Iraq as a messianic affair in which the United States could act out the will of the Lord.

"Pray for our military men and women who are striving to do what is right. Also, for this country, that our leaders, our national leaders, are sending [U.S. soldiers] out on a task that is from God," she exhorted the congregants. "That's what we have to make sure that we're praying for, that there is a plan and that that plan is God's plan."

Religion, however, was not strictly a thread in Palin's foreign policy. It was part of her energy proposals as well. Just prior to discussing Iraq, Alaska's governor asked the audience to pray for another matter -- a $30 billion national gas pipeline project that she wanted built in the state. "I think God's will has to be done in unifying people and companies to get that gas line built, so pray for that," she said.

Footnotes, Endnotes, and Parentheticals That Cost Me Marks on My Thesis.

A Cubs catcher, returning from the minors, is back after having to have four fingers reattached last year.

Footnotes, Endnotes, and Parentheticals That Cost Me Marks on My Thesis.

That's brilliant. I was going to copy one to highlight, and I couldn't pick!

And now for something completely different: On the high velocity rotation of interred organic remains

Let us all doff our hats in astonished disbelief at the brazen arrogance of the people who have created the Carl Sagan Institute in Brazil.

That is, the Carl Sagan Institute…of UFOlogy. That's right, a cranky gang of saucernuts have appropriated the name and likeness of Carl Sagan without authorization to flog their belief that Jesus is a flying saucer pilot. They claim that Sagan was secretly a believer in visitations by Little Green Men, who simply publicly lied, and now they want to use his dead body to beg for donations.

Okaaaaayyy.....

Extraordinary idiocy requires extraordinary making-fun-of....

Hellaciously good post by Bonnie Fuller at HuffPo on Bristol Palin and her possible future.

Hellaciously good post by Bonnie Fuller at HuffPo on Bristol Palin and her possible future.

I'm not sure. I found it a bit... patronizing? towards 17-year-old girls. Who, admittedly, are not fully adults, but it still kind of grated. I'm not giving Palin a pass by any means, I just think that maybe Bristol has more agency than that article suggests.

Personally, I think the hysteria around Palin's kids is distracting from meatier issues that the left-wing press could hammer her on (secessionist, lack of experience, documented liar). Not to mention that some of the coverage is starting to sound suspiciously like the right-wing coverage of Hillary.

I can see where you're coming from, juliana, and you have a good point-- but then again, as an example, I see how many girls have been going batshit craxy over a fictional sparkly vampire boy and thinking he's just the Perfect Guy (not to mention their mothers) and I have to think Fuller makes some good points too. I think, though, I'm going to disagree on how much agency Bristol may have. I can't honestly see, given her family sitch as it's been portrayed, how she could have a whole lot.

Personally, I think the hysteria around Palin's kids is distracting from meatier issues that the left-wing press could hammer her on (secessionist, lack of experience, documented liar).

No disagreement there at all.

The best description I've seen yet for the whole Palin thing is "a Tennessee Williams play has broken out at the RNC."