Usless Poop (and some Politics)

Once again, I've opted to fill today's post with a bunch of snippets of random and useless (well, almost) facts and videos. I spent this happy Friday doing a whole lot of surfing on the internet and I came upon a few interesting things.

First:

The 20 Worst Lyrics Ever

I don't mean to be a spoiler, but the #1 worst lyric ever was from an artist I actually sorta like.

"Coast to coast L.A. to Chicago"

--Sade's 'Smooth Operator'


Sade was born in Nigeria and grew up in London, but her biggest hit reveals that she's clearly not a smooth navigator.


Brilliant commentary on an issue that had always left me wondering which coast Chicago is on.


Next, I found a page that had 10 "Body Hacks" - things you can do to trick your body into performing beyond it's normal capabilities.

From #4 I paste for you the following:

Lifehacker's Top 10 Body Hacks, #4: Ladies, not sure that mad dash to the restroom will get you there in time? Scratch the back of your leg. "If you scratch or rub the back of your calf for a few moments, really vigorously, you may interrupt the message from your bladder to your brain just long enough for you to make it to the toilet,"


Now, I don't know if anyone is following politics, but I have been paying attention to the candidates for 2008 nomination. I would most closely identify myself as a "Republican" but I wouldn't try to argue in behalf of George W. Bush as being one of our greatest presidents ever. One candidate I have been following though is Mitt Romney. He was on the debates last night and the Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan stated:

"If we view the proceedings in vulgar and reductive Who Won, Who Lost terms, and let's, Mitt Romney won, Rudy Giuliani lost, and John McCain is still in."

MSNBC Columnist Joe Scarborough (the dude I used to think was Matthew Perry from 'Friends' turned commentator) wrote the following:

During the debate I was flooded by e-mails from Republican activists and voters who told me Romney was dominating the debate. Meanwhile, my friends from D.C., Manhattan and L.A. were calling him “creepy,” “fake” and “scary as hell.”

By that reaction alone, Mitt Romney carried the mantle of Reagan off the stage last night. Like Romney, the 40^th president was derided as a jingoistic right-wing nut. The greatest Reagan moment for the former Massachusetts governor came when he was asked what he hated most about America.

You could almost hear the Gipper’s laughs rising from his grave outside the auditorium.

“Clueless,” he would chuckle. “After all these years and all those Republican victories, the press still doesn’t get it.”

But Mitt Romney did, and he delivered an answer that would have made most angst-ridden reporters (and Democratic candidates) wince. It was an unapologetically delivered sermon on American Exceptionalism. The sort of speech that made media elites roll their eyes at Ronald Reagan while American voters were electing him in landslide margins.

Needless to say, the idea of having a Mormon President in the White House is kick ass.
He will come out of obscurity, just you wait and see.