State of the Union

I stayed home from class and work because I had a fever, which inevitably led to a horribly unproductive day. The only thing worthwhile I did (besides watching the State of the Union), was my Game Theory problem set which turned out to be a bitch. Math is clearly not my strong point. Do not ask me why I decided to double in Econ. I like econ. It just unfortunately involves calculus which does NOT like ME.

The sad part is that its not that I am completely horrible at math. I can do just as well as anyone when I put in the time and effort. I 4.0ed the last calculus class I took. The problem is, these days my conception of "time and effort" has become a lot shorter and not much. Which translates into only understanding half of your fucking problem set.

Whatever. I fully intend to go to office hours tomorrow to ask about discontinuous functions, and I think that should be applauded. The last time I went to go to office hours, it was for a 200-level polisci class where office hours were mandatory to discuss your paper. That was the quarter my TA hit on me and office hours were horribly awkward. I am obviously sacrificing for Game Theory here. Stand.

Speaking of standing, or rather not being able to, I thought that McCain looked remarkably deteriorated today. If he runs, he will have to get a seriously good facialist and a maseusse. Either way, I think Obama has it. Everyone should go to OIG.com and order an Obama is Good shirt. He looked quite good today too.

Besides watching potential '08 candidates, my favorite part about watching the State of the Union was watching Pelosi and Cheney decide when to clap. Its been awhile since we've had opposing parties sitting up there behind the President. And on issues that both of them want to show partisan support for, they race to be the first one to stand and applaud. Pelosi won most of those today, which may be due to the fact that she is a little more spry than I-have-heart-probems Cheney...or that he simply has stopped giving a shit. You could just see her popping up to clap first whenever Bush said "supporting our veterans, blah, blah, blah," and then looking at Cheney like, "Democrats support the troops more than the VP does, bitch."

I thought it was weird that Bush started quoting terrorists in his State of the Union. Please. I can just hear his advisors telling him, "some of those citizens are starting to think 9/11 is passe so let's scare them into PATRIOT Act-style submission again by giving the terrorists press time during the presidential address." Classy, guys. And too bad when W wanted to tell a nice story about a poor little African boy who was able to live the American dream he picked an NBA player. Can you say cliched? He would've been better off just giving Obama a shout-out. Of course, he couldn't have sat Obama next to his wife for the token minority camera shot, but the black construction worker who saved someone's life could have sat next to her. He was more charismatic anyway, with all his pointing and blowing kisses, though admittedly not as tall.

"I would not fear a pack of lions led by a sheep, but I would always fear a pack of sheep led by a lion."
-Alexander the Great