Really funny.

Go watch.

Then discuss, if you like.

Hot Topic. Land of fairies and Twilight. (My kid digs both, but she doesn’t try to pretend she’s goth about it…)

Remember the mice… in Hitchhiker’s Guide…? yeah?

Well check this out…

They just MIGHT be as smart as us. And if they’re as smart as us, who’s to say they aren’t smarter? And if they might be smarter, could it not be that they’re ACTUALLY aliens monitoring the GIANT SUPERCOMPUTER EXPERIMENT that is our home world?

Who’s to say?

Who, then?

Where’s my towel?

Don't panic.

But I just saw this today. I laughed. I like laughing. Need to do that more these days.

I’m talking about Sarah Palin.

PLEASE, media, STOP TALKING ABOUT HER.

The more you vilify this woman, the more you prove the points I’m about to make.

1. She really is a lot more respresentative of the average American than anyone wants to admit. You think HER faux pas about Africa and being able to see Russia from her front door are bad? Do you KNOW how much the average American knows about national geography, let ALONE world geography? Do you? Leave her alone about this.

2. The clothes. Who the fuck CARES what was spent on making her look like someone the American public would pay attention to? It has been proven OVER and over again that the general public, the sheeple, will stare with rapt attention at people wearing ‘brands’, people who are considered “stylish”. Do you imagine that Hillary was wearing Wal Mart when she was campaigning? And to take it another step… does anyone question where male candidates got their natty, well-tailored suits and shiny shoes? Why do we CARE what the woman was wearing? And why do we CARE that the rest of her family was made to be presentable, not only to the nation, but to the world, as people who MIGHT be hanging out around the White House, and the seat of our government? Let it go. Leave the clothes alone. They didn’t win. She’s not keeping the clothes. The Republicans have to pay for them and donate them to charity. It’s a non-issue.

3. SO… who’s exhibiting a serious case of sour grapes? “We lost. TURN ON THE WOMAN!” This would never be tolerated from liberals, no matter HOW much of a harpy or horror the liberal female candidate was.

4. Why is it that conservative women are portrayed one of two ways in the media? The first way… what? She’s hot? Then she has no brain, she’s vacuous, and doesn’t make her own decisions. She follows blindly along whatever the men are saying, and boy doesn’t that make her a terribly misguided person. OR… She’s smart? She is focused, and wants to stand for her beliefs, and she does NOT follow blindly along? Well… then… she’s just a harpy, a bitch, a worthless excuse for a woman. You can’t portray a liberal woman this way, but by cracky, if it’s a conservative woman, she’s a free target. You can talk about her sex appeal. You can talk about her conservative behavior, you can alternately praise or skewer her choice of wardrobe. But heaven forbid anyone should actually look at her objectively and realize she is where she is because people somewhere approved and responded to her, her ideals, her politics, and her integrity. But… nope. Can’t admit that. We’ve watched it happen over and over. A conservative woman in a position of responsibility has to be 100 times more fireproof and bulletproof than any liberal woman in a position of responsibility.

I wonder if that’s because conservative women actually DO value appearance, and openly admit it… while there are many liberal women who probably also value it, but would never publicly admit it, because that would be admitting to some difference in the general perception people have of women vs. men.

I just wonder.

Anyway… all I can say is I’m sick, tired, utterly EXHAUSTED by the sniping.

I may or may not agree with everything Sarah Palin believes and represents, but there ARE a lot of things about her that I DO identify with.

She’s a mom. She’s strong-willed, and despite what the media would have you believe, she’s also strong-minded. She DOES represent a lot of people around the country. Obama won by a landslide of electoral college votes, but the popular vote was a closer thing. She’s likes to shoot things.

So let’s leave it alone. It’s done. It’s over. And SHAME on the Republican “leaks” that are telling tales. The lost. They’re sore. And they’re taking it out on the person that was on their side. It’s just like the child that resents mommy when they don’t get their way.

Real mature, Republicans. REAL mature.

…

“I come in peace,” it said, adding after a long moment of further grinding, “take me to your Lizard.”

Ford Prefect, of course, had an explanation for this, as he sat with Arthur and watched the nonstop frenetic news reports on television, none of which had anything to say other than to record that the thing had done this amount of damage which was valued at that amount of billions of pounds and had killed this totally other number of people, and then say it again, because the robot was doing nothing more than standing there, swaying very slightly, and emitting short incomprehensible error messages.

“It comes from a very ancient democracy, you see….”

“You mean, it comes from a world of lizards?”

“No,” said Ford, who by this time was a little more rational and coherent than he had been having finally had the coffee forced down him, “nothing so simple. Nothing anything like so straightforward. On its world, the people are people, the leaders are lizards. The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people.”

“Odd,” said Arthur, “I thought you said it was a democracy.”

“I did,” said Ford. “It is.”

“So,” said Arthur, hoping he wasn’t sounding ridiculously obtuse, “why don’t the people get rid of the lizards?”

“It honestly doesn’t occur to them,” said Ford. “They’ve all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they’ve voted in more or less approximates to the government they want.”

“You mean they actually vote for the lizards?”

“Oh yes,” said Ford with a shrug, “of course.”

“But,” said Arthur, going for the big one again, “why?”

“Because if they didn’t vote for a lizard,” said Ford, “the wrong lizard might get in. Got any gin?”

“What?”

“I said,” said Ford, with an increasing air of urgency creeping into his voice, “Have you got any gin?”

“I’ll look. Tell me about the lizards.”

Ford shrugged again.

“Some people say that the lizards are the best thing that ever happened to them,” he said. “They’re completely wrong of course, completely and utterly wrong, but someone’s got to say it.”

“But that’s terrible,” said Arthur.

“Listen, bud,” said Ford, “if I had one Altairian dollar for every time I heard one bit of the Universe look at another bit of the Universe and say “That’s terrible’ I wouldn’t be sitting here like a lemon looking for a gin. But I haven’t and I am. …”

Oddly appropriate these days. Or any day, really. They’re all lizards. We keep voting for them and don’t get rid of them, because we think if we don’t vote for a LIZARD, the WRONG LIZARD will get in. When really, we should have voted for the non-lizard. None of these lizards is the best thing that ever happened to anybody. None.

But no, we listen to the popular opinion, the media and “common” sense.

When are people going to realize the sense that is most common is usually not the most brilliant or best?

Happy election, folks. It’s going to suck no matter who wins, because they’re all not worth a hill of digested and recycled beans.