My wife couldn’t get over John King’s hands. (King, along with Wolf Blitzer, is one of CNN’s main electoral analysts on election night.) They were frozen in a sort of claw position no matter the gesture. I told her, “Uh. Everyone knows the molded action-figure-finger is the optimal hand positioning for manipulating the Magic Board.” […]
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What it tis it taint and what taint it tis
There is a quantum principle that says you can’t know the velocity and the location of a subatomic particle at the same time. You can know one attribute or another but not both simultaneously. And they (as in smart theoretical physics dudes) swear it’s not a technological issue. The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle is an immutable […]
A Win Win: The Final 2012 Presidential Debate
Don’t miss it, America. If you’re too frustrated or cracking too many jokes or screaming at your TV too loudly, you’re going to miss the most important takeaway of these debates: Both of these men can run our country. They have different policies and different philosophies and different annoying mannerisms. The “Excuse me, I’m still […]
“YOU CAN’T WIN!”
This site doesn’t do endorsements. Well, except of hair product and mythical creatures. I roundly support both. L’Oréal and unicorns, specifically. So the following is only a prediction and not an aspiration: Obama will lose. I believed a Romney victory was an effective impossibility until the last debate. In fact, I predicted an Obama victory. […]
47%
Performed by theipoetlaureate. Music produced by pumpkinFoot. Today’s song blog here: [wpaudio url=”https://thefreshjunket.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/1a8d6-boxscore-11.mp3″ dl=”0″ text=”Boxscore“]
Runnin’ Thangs
In case you missed it because you’re a normal person with better things to do, Mitt won New Hampshire last night. Paul took second. I don’t have any plans on voting for Romney. But, he strikes me as the guy at the water cooler who doesn’t like sports but tries to make football conversation anyway. […]
Eight is Enough
We just finished one of the cute colloquialisms of American government — the Iowa Caucus. Lunch room cafeterias, wooden ballot boxes, corn pone, rotary dial phones, flannel. Apparently, jarred from a deep winter’s hibernation by electoral big wigs, let’s say in Des Moines, a Caroline and Edith of Clinton County, Iowa phoned in the official […]
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