Literacy am important in a president
-"It was the bestest of times, it was the worster of times..."-
Will President Bush write a memoir? After all, that's what former-presidents do. But there isn't a big groundswell of publishers eager to print it. It seems that everyone has the same assessment of what it would mean to sell a book by the least popular president in everyone's lifetime -- it'd be hard work.
So no one's in any rush to see President Trainwreck send them a manuscript. "Certainly the longer he waits, the better," says Marji Ross of the conservative Regnery Publishing.
Hell, it's not like we don't know what a Bush autobiography would look like -- X pages of complete bullshit and the more pictures, the better. The literary world might never recover. (Think Progress)
-Headline of the day-
"Obama adds North Carolina to White House win."
This pushes his electoral college count up to 364. It's pretty much academic at this point, but I just thought you'd want to know. (Associated Press)
-Look, she wasn't running for head cartographer, OK?-
FOX is turning on the saviour of the Republican party, that bright new conservative star Sarah Palin. How dare they? That's my job.
Anyway, FOXbot Carl Cameron has reported that Caribou Barbie's an even bigger intellectual lightweight than anyone suspected. Not only didn't she know Jack, but she wasn't willing to learn it, either. Among the things she didn't know were "basic civics, government structures, municipal, state, and federal government responsibilities."
Wait, isn't she supposed to be some sort of a governor or something? You'd think that kind of thing would've come up. She also didn't know the nations involved in NAFTA. That's almost excusable -- maybe she didn't know that stands for the North American Free Trade Agreement. But then we find out that she doesn't know which countries are in North America. She was also unclear on whether Africa was a country or a continent.
Still, why bother learning all this stuff? If you need to know it, you can ask anybody.
No, really, ask anybody. (Red, Green, and Blue, via reddit)
