thesuccub.us

So, I’m totally obsessed with making on-line polls now. Today at work, I sat around and made polls all day on our secure website; but they all seemed totally pointless – see I work for PBS so, what can you possibly poll about?

Polls are quite amazing if you ask me. Seriously, despite the margin of error the business of simply asking someones’ opinions is still the basis for the majority of news-fulfilling prophesies since the first poll was created 124 years ago! (Which happened to be: Who would win in a fight John Q Adams or Andrew Jackson?)

My sister Sarah spent a brief stint as a political poller (Let’s call her a Telemarketer for Equality) She spent her evenings calling people at home, during dinner, asking them about their current opinions on the state of our nation, in a somewhat off-election year if I recall. (1998?) Surprisingly she always came home with stories of quite a few interested participants. A much better response than when she was a telemarketer selling grave plots.

What’s so insane to me is that despite all the elaborate technology we have now a days – from cancer research to electric cars to Guitar Hero, our billions of dollar-spending-candidates still base their very extravagant media purchases on the somewhat unreliable, yet very endearing, poll.

I’ll say it again, I love me some good poll! So.. give me something to poll about. Seriously, I don’t care what it is. I’m freakin’ crazy I’ll poll about anything!

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No? Nothing?

Ok fine!

Would you come to my wedding if the theme from Family Ties was our wedding song?

I thought so, but wait, would you come to the wedding if the theme song to Webster was our wedding song?

I figured as much. But now hold on – which of those two beautiful pieces of music, would better a wedding song make? (I encourage you to really listen to the lyrics carefully, both songs are actually appropriate for a first post-marital dance… or if you need an adoption song in a pinch)

See… it’s difficult. Let’s take it to the streets.

This week I was lucky enough to join 9 other women of Southern stature in a good, old fashion game of Bunko! What’s Bunko you wanna know? Well.. I’m not really sure. I know that it involves dice.. and wine. Of course I’m kidding, I completely understand Bunko. It’s simple!

Bunko is a game of skill. That skill involves throwing three die. Much skill here. The ‘object’ of the game is to roll sixes. We all want sixes. For every six you get, you get a point. As with most games that involve “getting points” the goal is to get the most. But it gets tricky and here’s where the skill part comes in. (more…)

So the latest “in the government once again breaks the law and no one seems to care” stories – Vice President Dick Cheney’s office worked to alter sworn congressional testimony provided by a federal official in order to play down the threat of global warming and head off regulation of greenhouse gas emissions, a former government official said in a new accusation Tuesday.

Wait, what?! Cheney’s office ALTERED federal documents? And.. we’re not putting warrants out because.. why again? Oh right, because we’ve all got too much other stuff going on this week, what with Madonna and A-Rod hanging out and all.

Hold up, it continues.

White House efforts to edit testimony were “clearly misconduct, in terms of interfering with scientific information,” said Bettina Poirier, staff director for the environment committee. However, she said, she was still examining whether those actions violated the law.

Ok so the EPA is saying that these “interferences” were “clearly misconduct”  but.. yeah we’re not positive if tampering with federal documents is illegal anymore. It just seems to have happened so often in the past couple years, maybe it IS legal now to do that?? (hint: Yes Bettina it IS still against the law to do that sorta stuff, just an FYI)

Hi God, It’s Me Abby. Umm.. yeah when’s that second coming s’posse to happen again, because right about now seems like as good a time as any.