Future generations should have a textbook of the Bush/Cheney years.

As written by Miracleman.

You know, I thought Jon Stewart was kidding when he said Obama would need a week to fix the Middle East.

Now I'm wondering if that was a conservative estimate...

Not banned, just strongly discouraged. My personal feeling is that it's 2009 and the Secret Service should learn to work with it.

And someone smart enough to be president is probably smart enough not to use email for things like "OK, see you at noon at 14th and K!" or "Go ahead and bomb the shit out of those losers."

ION, I just tried this new bagel place by my office, and it was good, except the "everything" bagel didn't have salt on it. The place sells salt bagels! If I had known there would be no salt on the everything bagel, I would have just gotten the salt bagel. Ah well.

Well, considering that his first phone calls to foreign leaders weren't to the standard BFFs of the USA (Britain, France, etc.), but were instead to the main players in the Middle East, he's at least showing them that he considers them priority one.

I started to cry in the car again when they said "President Obama."

In other news of things that make me cry, I am very arithmatic challenged and I need to figure out some vacation expenses and it's giving me a headache. I know this should be easy but it's just not to me. Anybody want to help?

We rented a car for 7 days (Saturday to Saturday) for a total of $387. 3 people shared that car for 3 days. 2 of those people then shared it for 1 day. And 1 of those people had it alone for the remaining 3 days. How much does each person owe?

This is way beyond my skills.

And someone smart enough to be president is probably smart enough not to use email for things like "OK, see you at noon at 14th and K!" or "Go ahead and bomb the shit out of those losers."

I think the greater concern is that someone could hack into president@whitehouse.gov and start WWIII. (Which isn't possible if everyone knows the president doesn't use email.)

Presidential email also makes archiving even more of a nightmare than it already is - since everything has to be archived in it's original form, whatever version of Outlook Obama is using today has to be preserved somehow in the Library of Congress. (This is why I'm guessing the Obama Twitter account will be dark for the duration of his Presidency.)

(This is why I'm guessing the Obama Twitter account will be dark for the duration of his Presidency.)

Aw, that's a shame. I wanna see entries like:

PresObamaRox playing foosball and fixing democracy. Foosball!

Divide by seven to figure how much per day (minus any fees that should be split evenly) Divide that by three (How much the 3 people owe per day) Then by 2 (how much the 2 owe for the 2 days they used it).

I think the greater concern is that someone could hack into president@whitehouse.gov and start WWIII. (Which isn't possible if everyone knows the president doesn't use email.)

That seems equally unlikely to me, in the real world. I know it's possible, but still.

We rented a car for 7 days (Saturday to Saturday) for a total of $387. 3 people shared that car for 3 days. 2 of those people then shared it for 1 day. And 1 of those people had it alone for the remaining 3 days. How much does each person owe?

OK, you could either figure out the cost per day, and then divide each day by the number of people, OR you could figure out the person-days: 3x3=9, 2x1=2, 1x3=3, total is 14. Then divide the total by 14 and charge each person for how many days they used the car.

lisah, this is what I think should be correct:

Per day cost of the car: $55.30
For the three people sharing: $18.43 each
For the two people sharing: $27.65 each
For the one person: $55.30