Math is HARD, pt. 2

I was about to write a scathing post about the cost of Obama's new mortgage relief program, until I realized that I had the math completely wrong. A billion divided by a million is only a thousand, Sara. God, EVERBODY knows that. I will now sheepishly slink away from the blogger screen slowly and remind myself that yes, I did get a 5 on the AP Calculus exam once upon a time before my brain turned to rot.

The world's dullest casino

Griftdrift writes about Atlanta's annoying tendency to do things half-ass and completely miss the target, and the frightening possibility that we might be about to do this again with a "casino" in downtown that will have nothing but video lottery terminals. Even as someone who actually plays slot machines in a casino, this sounds like the single most boring and unappealing casino in the whole entire world. So far commenters of every political stripe have agreed it is a terrible idea....which has me good and frightened that it will actually come to fruition. When this lamefest fails, as it inevitably will, it will just embolden the opponents to real casinos in Atlanta and prevent us from ever getting the kind of glitzy moneymaking projects that have been a boon to other cities. That's why I'd prefer they built nothing at all, rather than wasting money and energy on this clunker.

They vant to suck your blooooood

This segment from Sean Hannity's show is so ridiculously hilarious that you just have to watch it for yourself.

I'm having a hard time deciding which is sillier--that Hannity is trying to drum up fear of vampires living amongst us, or the people who actually believe they are psychic vampires who rely upon human energy to survive.

(And yes, I fully expect a bunch of psychic vampire whackjobs to show up here and leave angry comments. Once in awhile, you gotta taunt the crazy.)