Electric Josh

David Sedaris on undecided voters: "Can I interest you in the chicken?" she asks. "Or would you prefer the platter of shit with bits of broken glass in it?" To be undecided in this election is to pause for a moment and then ask how the chicken is cooked.
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Barack Obama: Black!?
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Boy, if the Red Sox are going to lose I sure wish they'd do it quickly. I don't have a whole lot more staying up super late left in me. Stupid 8:30 start times.
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Poor John McCain probably can't believe that he finds himself backed by supporters like these. On the other hand, those are the kind of supporters you get for hiring the same goons that ran the current loser-president's campaigns: a bunch of inbred racists who think everyone else is as clueless as they are, but less brave. Alas.
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Sad guys on trading floors.
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Paul Krugman shows us non-academics his latest "economics professor" paper about the dynamics driving the current financial mess. It's substantially more precise than anything else you're likely to read on the subject today, though you must do at least some mental work to get through the math; just remember that when economists write equations they perversely use q as the price instead of something obvious like p. Dozens of minutes of fun!
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