Oh. My. GOD.

If you missed the Daily Show's coverage of the debates do not let yourself miss the reruns tomorrow! Jon Stewart completely goes to town on Guiliani, who shows up to parrot the Bush-party talking points to an extent which is frankly embarassing all on its own, but to watch Jon actually call him on it is just - GUH.

I'll be in my bunk.

Stupid book publishing world

When the heck does Alton Brown's new book come out? I was all geared up to go buy it today, but when I check the Borders website it lists it as not being released yet and therefore not available in-store. I figured maybe this was a quirk of the website, except Amazon lists it as not available yet either.

Anybody actually know the release date?

Debate fact checking

The Boston Globe fact-checks the debate, thus causing me to be stunned to hell and back that anyone in the media bothered to fact check anything. Still, gift horse, mouth, yadda yadda.

(Link courtesy of dantesdad).

If anybody else knows of links to online fact checking, feel free to put them in the comments. The more the merrier, I say.

Books, politics

Stopped by the local Borders. According to their computers, Alton's new book is out as of last month, the end of this month, or they have no idea. So apparently Alton's book has just dropped into the Twilight Zone and nobody knows when it's coming out. My guess is sometime before the 14th, though, as that's when he's supposed to start doing book signings. (One of which I'm tempted to go to, but we'll see how that goes as the day draws closer).

While at the bookstore I absolutely did not spend money on books I probably could have gotten from the library, and magazines that I'll only read a few articles of. Likewise while at the grocery store I did not buy a pint of Di's Candy Drawer simply because that store had it, and the one I usually go to hasn't had it for weeks now and I am so addicted to it stupidlimitededitionOMG!!

So you can stop spreading those rumors.

ETA: Though if I did buy books, one of them might have been the new Dave Barry book, where he and another author basically write Peter Pan fanfic. Granted it's a kids' book, so some of the narrative is a tiny bit "See Spot run", but OTOH some bits in the first few pages made me giggle, and I have neices and a nephew, so I'm calling it an investment. Uh, if I bought it, that is. Which I did not. Shut up.

I have abandoned all thoughts of doing anything this weekend that will involve large amounts of energy, and by large amounts of energy I am speaking comparatively and basically referring to anything from leaving the house to trying to bake bread. Instead I'll try to do as little as possible in the hopes I can rest enough to shake the last of what's bugging me. Though I will at least be making pork loin tomorrow night, as that just involves tossing it into the oven. So very little effort on my part which results in a pure shot of protein. I plan on injecting it directly into my veins.

Had a chat with a Dubya supporter earlier today. To say that he is die-hard in support of Dubya is to grossly understate his position on things like his belief that Dubya won the debate last night hands-down, no question, Kerry completely bombed and nobody can tell him differently. Still, we talked. Or tried to. After a while I found it interesting to see how he basically just parroted the talking points the same as Dubya does. ( For example: )

On the one hand it had me wanting to tear my hair out, grab him by the shoulders and demand to know how he could buy in to these word blurbs as though they were true when many of them are provably wrong, but on the other I suppose you have to give the Bush campaign credit for knowing what they're doing. If they say something often enough it doesn't actually become true, but enough people believe it's true and as long as they're voting for Bush then the existential difference really doesn't matter.

Dear God please let Kerry win come November. Please.