YES WE DID!!!

There's an amazing feeling of unity and possibility coursing through the United States of America right now. For the first time in years, people are filled with hope. There's definitely a lot of work to be done; there are two wars on, and we're facing a huge financial crisis, but like so many people, I can't help feeling that because we could do this, we can do anything.

I completely overwhelmed. I just don't have any more words right now.

Political Expression (and Equation)

The equation

[charismatic person] + [good public speaker] = HITLER

Has officially been overused by individuals represented by the expression:

[Person who doesn't like Obama] - [well-constructed argument based on fact].

Because hey, why put in all that time and effort learning stuff about candidates when there's Godwinned snark just begging to be shared? No one really wants to discuss politics anyway. It's impolite. Diffuse that tension with a joke so we can all get back to talking about Britney.

Heroes

He only saved a billion people That's one out of every seven people on the planet. We ought to choose our heroes more carefully than we've been doing in recent years.

Ah, Geekishness

I think my favorite quote from this clip in which Rep. David Wu talks Trek to the House, is the bit where he says "Unlike the real Klingons of Star Trek, these Klingons have never fought a battle of their own." Oh, I also enjoyed his reference to "faux Klingons."

I also also enjoy knowing that, had I seen this clip as a 14-year-old Star Trek maniac, I would not have been able to stop talking about it and quoting it for months. Blue and I would have wandered our local mall repeating the words of Wu (the words he spoke regarding Klingons, anyway). We might not have understood it fully, but by Grabthar's Hammer, we would have had it memorized!