Morning reads.
Hey team. A few things to do besides work today:
• Is anyone following the most genius voter disenfranchisement tactic ever? Michigan Republicans are planning to use foreclosure lists to block people from voting at the polls. So if you lost your house and maybe you feel like you lost your house because of the Bush economy, they will tell you at the polling place you can’t vote (presumably against four more years of the Bush economy) because you don’t have your house anymore. Unreal. Obama’s campaign is hitting back hard though.
• Jealous of Trig, Bristol and Track? See what your name would be if Sarah Palin was your mom at the Sarah Palin Baby Name Generator! (I’m Falter Locust Palin; Stirling is Chin Trout Palin, which sounds slightly Asian-American, which means he’s a Muslim, which makes him unfit to blog. STOP BLOGGING STIRLING.)
• Finally! Hairspray actress Nikki Blonsky speaks about that thing that happened in Turks and Caicos where her dad beat up that girl from America’s Next Top Model and everyone got arrested. The good news is that Zac Efron sent her a card; my Dad is visiting me in New York today and if all it takes to get a card from Zac Efron is for my Dad to beat up a model than people better watch their backs.
• What else did John McCain invent? Add your ideas to the list here. (I added “cunt”) Also, is he dying of Cancer? President Palin omfg a growing list of Doctors and Democrats hope so want to know.
+ This is a GREAT piece from Treehugger on McCain vs. Obama on renewable energy. Totally substantive and helpful.
• Have an older parent who values their health care and might vote for McCain? Bob Herbert’s piece yesterday is appropriately terrifying, laying out the very radical McCain/Palin agenda for health care.
• Oh no a Sex and the City kids book!
• A couple people wrote me wanting HOPE. (Ha ha Sandy wants hope.) Here.
Lastly, Gondoliers for Obama:
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My wife Dawn would be Taupe Armageddon Palin.
and Nika would be Stake Shed Palin.
Oh, and Barack Obama? Tarp Lazer Palin.
Cool. My name would be Plop Hero Palin.
Tangle Jig Palin
ha ha PLOP lol
i love that the gondoliers mention Biden!
also, more hope!
Gallup has Obama back ahead, 47-45
Politico and Real Clear Politics have the electoral college polls wider, 286-252, I think based on a slightly wider Obama lead in Virgina
It’ll be interesting to see the State polling next week–especially with McCain slipping in a lot of the national polls this week. My fingers are crossed for the end of the GOP Convention/Palin bounce for McCain.
OMG, Still Hardrock Palin here! What does that even mean? I don’t work out anymore. Wish I was Plop, though. That one’s really good.
My husband was, formally, Blastor Commando Palin [James], and informally, Bullpen Cola Palin [Jamie]. Hmmmm, I guess I’ll sign our holiday cards, Hardrock & Commando, has a nice ring to it…a bit GI Joe.