'The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Does it still count if her talking points aren't part of coherent English sentences?
Yeah, this is the thing with memorizing the talking points -- she's not just getting 3 days of debate cramming. They've been coaching her pretty much nonstop for 6 weeks now, and I'm seriously doubtful that another couple of days is going to make the difference from what we've already seen. The convention speech was her peak.
I think the bar is set so low right now...anything close to complete sentences will garner applause.
This Andrew Sullivan post cracked me up (Sullivan, FTR, has been extremely critical of Palin from the beginning):
Michelle Cottle asks what Palin's next excuse will be:
Team McCain is burning through the list of groups to blame at an alarming clip. At this rate, with five weeks left to go, they are at serious risk of running out of ways to paint Palin as the victim of some overarching prejudice. Religious persecution is still available for use, as is the well-documented bias against people who wear glasses. But those two excuses cannot possibly hold all the way through October. Anyone care to venture some more creative cards for them to play?
The fag-blogger card? I'm ready.
Because if the Couric interview is any indication, she's memorized all her talking point buzzwords phonetically.
Does that make her Milli or Vanilli?
Kat, see doctor. Stat.
ER was a long wait, with a doctor not in love with giving pain meds. Still, I'm in far better shape than I was this time yesterday, so I'll cheerfully take what I got.
Once a headache starts I become less tolerant of any scent.
Most of them are like being hit in the nose with a bat. Though I find I can tolerate the smell of coffee very well, to the extent I carried some ground coffee on me to clear my nose when someone or something was being particularly triggery. Someone here suggested it, but I dismember who.
Shir, I love those pics. Five or so years ago I got my hands on a bunch of family pics that I scanned, and I found just the process mesmerising, like tiptoeing through someone else's lives, but everything is happening so shushed you can't be sure of what's going on.
And of course, combining Tommy and Steph's last posts, I'm now earwormed with Blame it on the rain.
You both SUCK
I think she'll be fine. She's read ALL the newspapers and magazines. ALL of them.
You both SUCK
Gotta blame it on something.
You could always blame it on Rio....
ION, this is the first time since 1906 that the Cubs and White Sox both made it into the postseason.
Back then, the "postseason" was just the World Series, right? (That is, if they didn't need a tiebreaker for the pennant.)