The Nine Trick

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Industrial accident,
or 9 x 7?

I’ve always been awful at math, just ask my checkbook. So I’ll gladly take any trick I can to cheat on multiplication tables. And weren’t nines the worst? No longer. At dinner tonight, my wife Jennifer (the teacher), solved that problem forever by teaching us the nine trick.

Here’s how it works; when multiplying by nine, hold up your hands and tuck down the finger that you are multiplying by (only works for single digits). The remaining fingers display your answer, with the digits on the left representing tens, and those to the right of the bent finger are ones. Nice. Where was this magic in the third grade when I needed it most?

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Tell The World You’re Sorry

Politics, Web Surfin'
sorryeverybody.com

(photo from sorryeverybody.com)

Sure, 48% of us are still in mourning over the narrow defeat we suffered at the polls this week. But there’s a bigger burden that we bear. Our President is frequently referred to as “the leader of the free world”, and the power he wields leaves the rest of the world (free or not) subject to the consequences of his whims.

So, despite our best efforts, it’s certainly a reasonable and polite gesture to apologize to the world for our failure to remove the idiot boy President, and you can do just that with a photo sent to sorryeverybody.com.

thanks to Another Liberal Blog for the link

 

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Voting Patterns by IQ & Income

Politics

update: consider this one debunked by snopes.com

Take it with a big grain of salt *, because I can’t check the facts on the figures offered in these charts. But look at the correlations to be found here:

State Vote listed by Avg. IQ

State Vote listed by Avg. Personal Income

I’m glad to see my home state of Virginia near the top of the listed Red states. Perhaps there’s hopes for our aspirations to become blue after all!

Still, there’s little comfort to be taken from any conclusion that this election amounted to the triumph of the stupid and intolerant.

* DISCLAIMER: everything on the Internet is of suspect origin and questionable reliability. Be a skeptic. My favorite site for checking the facts on Internet facts, rumors and urban legends is snopes.com. I don’t find anything there specifically addressing these charts, but in time they might.

Thanks to Laura for the forward

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Leaving’s Not So Easy

News, Politics

Harper’s Magazine online has a great article titled Electing to Leave that should be of interest to anyone who threated such action in the face of our current electoral outcome. Turns out, it’s not as easy as you might think. Renouncing your U.S. Citizenship and becoming a citizen somewhere else is a process that can take years.

Take heart and remember, the result was 51-48. Blue America is not as small as it may feel at the moment. Instead of fleeing the country, consider instead having an raising some smart kids in a Red state. It’s a slow but solid strategy for breaking the strangle of the ignorant majority.

thanks to Political Wire for the story

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The Robot Bartender

Humor

A popular bar had a new robot for a bartender installed. It could not only dispense drinks flawlessly, but also — like any good bartender –engage in appropriate conversation.

A man enters the bar, orders a drink. The robot serves him a perfectly prepared cocktail, then asks him, “What’s your IQ?” The man replies, “150.” And the robot proceeds to make conversation about Quantum physics, string theory, atomic chemistry, etc. The customer is very impressed and thinks, “This is really cool.”

He decides to test the robot. He walks out of the bar, turns around, and comes back in for another drink. Again, the robot serves him the drink and asks him, “What’s your IQ?” The man responds, “100.” And immediately the robot starts talking, but this time, about football, baseball, cheerleaders, etc.

Really impressed, the man leaves the bar and decides to give the robot one more test. He goes back in, the robot serves him and asks, “What’s your IQ?” The man replies, “50.” And the robot says, “So, you gonna vote for Bush again?”

thanks for the joke Sis

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We Will Get What We Deserve

Politics

CNN is reporting that Sen. Kerry has just called President Bush to concede defeat in this Election.

As much as I would like to be gracious in defeat, I can’t help but look around and think to myself, “What the fuck is wrong with you people?”

I guess I should instead be asking, “What is wrong with me?”. I don’t know. But I won’t be looking to join the majority in their ignorance.

America has bent over for Bush/Cheney, and we now have to smile and take it for four more years. Enjoy.

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