funny typo of the day

From comments on the latest PhD comics which was about academic salaries and points out some discrepancies between men's and women's salaries . . . Someone started talking about the "sex ration."

political misc

• I think it is frightening that saying Obama's plans will "spread the wealth" is considered negative campaigning. I thought the appeal of living in a prosperous country was that we could all share in the prosperity -- but apparently that makes me a socialist, and therefore Un-American. (WTF.)
  
• There is this ridiculous anti-Obama ad running on TV out here. Basically it is about Obama not having executive experience, but the end is just totally stupid. They're talking about the economic crisis, and how the next president will have to deal with it. They show a picture of the President's chair in the oval office, and the voiceover says, "This would be Obama's FIRST CRISIS . . . . . . . . . in this chair." I laughed when I heard that little qualifier at the end. It would be McCain's first crisis in that chair too, morons.
  
• A dead bear cub was found on a university campus draped with Obama signs. W. T. F.
  
• I found out at my Spanish class last night that there is now an Obama campaign office here in Carmel, IN. I stopped by after class hoping to get a yard sign. Apparently the whole state is out of yard signs, but one of the volunteers had a couple makeshift signs that her husband had made -- two Obama posters stapled back-to-back and attached to a couple of wooden stakes. I took one. I also signed up to canvass on Saturday, it will be interesting to see how it goes.
  
• I mentioned that I had come looking for a yard sign more intently now because I had seen so many new McCain yard signs crop up lately. The guy in the Obama office told me that apparently McCain's campaigning in Indiana is mostly that he has a whole shitload of yard signs, and that some of the McCain campaign staff have just been going around sticking them in random people's lawns. Also apparently some people have had Obama yard signs stolen from their yards.
  
• Have you guys seen these gigantic yard signs? I don't think I've seen any for McCain or Obama but they are becoming popular for local politicians (esp. our incumbent governor). They're a yard sign, but they're about four feet tall and six feet wide or so. Crazy.