Moo! The Musings of a Plaid Cow

On the radio this evening, the talk show host was bemoaning the fact that the evening news shows maps of the United States and colors each state blue or red, depending on how that state (as a whole) is projected to vote. His point was that there are many areas in larger states that don’t vote with the “majority”. While I agree with the concept, I think that he really misses the main takeaway points:

• Every state is either a blue or red. There is no in between, nor is there a green for a viable third party candidate. (I think that corporate america and all of their lobbyists like it this way…there are only two sides to be bought instead of three or more.)
• The main stream media does not think that the average american is intelligent enough to comprehend a chart that shows data in something other than black and white, even if the chart ends up having absolutely no meaning. (Imagine a chart in which each state was shaded by a red, green, and blue percentage based on the vote in that state.)
• The main stream media is right. The people just want to know that their guy is ahead.

“Break our duck? We can’t even find it!”

Thanks to the folks at Livid Productions I can say “Today my birthday”. And this time it is true.

“Waiter! There’s a hare in my rabbit stew!”

Have you ever noticed how much the beginning of “Neutron Dance” by the Pointer Sisters sounds like the theme from Duck Tales?

Be the first on your block to own the one, the only Origami Boulder. (Or be cooler, and be the first to explain the title.)

According to the Cookie Episode on Food Network’s Secret Life Of…: It wasn’t until the 1990s that fortune cookies actually arrived in China. They were called “Genuine American Fortune Cookies.”

Go for a walk
in a friendly
happy
place
Like a padded room
there are no other people there.

“It’s all downhill from here, except for the uphill parts.”