Musings of a Chicagoan

More on the crazy preacher who was the audio source for that YTMND.

It scares me that there was a preacher who actually said this. I mean … good grief. Still, where there are idiots, there will be people to make fun of the idiots. And at least we'll have that.

"To pronounce something correctly is to be 'ostentatiously exotic,' while pronouncing something incorrectly is raised to the level of something like a presidential qualification. Meanwhile, there are thousands of Americans of Pakistani descent who are themselves 'ostentatiously exotic' by virtue of their names (and it would be elitist of them to expect anyone to pronounce them correctly) and ancestry."

"Last month I wrote about the sunk-cost fallacy, the mistaken belief that just becuase you‘ve spent money on something you should continue to spend money on it. In reality, once you‘ve spent your money, it‘s gone. According to economists and psychologists, it‘s a mistake to consider past expenses in deciding what to do with your investments, your home, or your Stuff. What‘s important are future expenses and future happiness. To the extent that we can focus on the future instead of the past, the better off we‘ll be financially (and mentally)."

"[S]ome politicians–our current president included–offer meanderings in the higher realms of drivel that leave the diagrammer groping for the Tylenol ("Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream") or the gin bottle ("I remember meeting a mother of a child who was abducted by the North Koreans right here in the Oval Office"). "

It's enjoyable when television shows don't even bother to try to create a technically correct sentence. "I'll create a GUI interface using Visual Basic. See if I can track an IP address." Appropriately enough, my geek brethren in the comments are simply writing, "This is Unix, I know this!", which is an equally-as-awful moment in "Jurassic Park."

"In an attempt to save the home as a historical landmark, Meltzer tells us raised over $100,000 and not only saved the house, but can now make the necessary repairs to keep it functional."

"The thing is, I don‘t want ‘Joe Sixpack‘ in office. I don‘t want someone ‘just like me‘ as the Vice President–or President, for that matter. I want someone better than me. I want someone more experienced, more intelligent, more educated, and more able to deal with the situations to be found in and around the Oval Office. I can barely manage my own finances, let alone those of the entire country, why in the world would I want someone ‘just like me‘ in office? What a frightening thought."

Classy. The John McCain campaign — or the RNC — apparently bought the "VoteForTheMILF.Com" domain. You know, my hope is that the Republicans lose so very soundly this November that the "survival mechanisms" that kick in for their next campaigns make them lead a more Obama-like campaign in 2012, 2016, etc. If the Obama '08 campaign's way of doing business becomes the standard way of doing politics in America, things would get a hell of a lot better.