A Little Help Here
Where's the Info Lab in College Lib?

Where the hell is the computer lab in College Library? Because, in my mind's eye, all I can see are huge study rooms and bookshelves. Seriously. Is it in a separate room that you can't see from the main "hallway?"

Tipped off from Candy, here's a nice interview juxtaposing Palin with Biden. And giving yet another example of how idiotic Palin is:



1. Her filibustering around the question about which Supreme Court cases she disagrees with.
2. She calls herself a Federalist because she believes that states should have more rights. Umm, that's just wrong historically.

I'm SO excited for the debate tomorrow. I hope Palin doesn't disappoint and remains as stupid as ever. I'll have to tape it, though. I won't get home from class until 45 minutes in.

I was watching the McCain-Obama debate today (I've still only seen half), and aside from being super annoyed at the number of times both candidates compare "Wall Street" to "Main Street," I was really distracted by McCain talking about earmarks and pork barrel stuff. Namely, when he mentioned $3 million to study bear DNA in Montana. It seemed so bizarre (especially since he made some sort of comment about paternity suits) that I had to look it up. Turns out, this is true (not the paternity aspect). But it's to study the grizzly population in a part of Montana that includes Glacier Nat'l Park and the Bob Marshall Wilderness Complex. Grizzlies are a threatened species, and under the Federal Endangered Species Act, the gov't is supposed to identify and conserve threatened species--such as the grizzly. This project involved doing DNA testing on grizzly fur snagged on barbed wire to determine their numbers, since they inhabit a heavily forested area that makes is nearly impossible to count their numbers. So it's really not a good example of pointless pork-barrel spending. Besides the fact the McCain actually voted FOR the bill that this was included in. Whatev.

I also learned that Jim Lehrer has beady shark eyes and that I don't have a good handle on the difference between "strategy" and "tactics," even if both McCain and Obama do.