Real Time synopsis

"Picaso couldn't portray all the sides of Mitt Romney" - Bill Maher Chrystia Freeland makes the most hysterical and emotive facial expressions. I like her new hairdo. She is so smart! She nods her head so much it makes mine hurt.

Eliot Spitzer is so flipping bright and funny. Oh, the foibles of Spitzer and Clinton.

Michael Steele looks like a muppet. He did say that we should get out of Afghanistan. Yes, I agree with Michael Steele. Wow- not sure this will ever happen again!

Bill: "Barney (Frank), you once said that Mitt Romney was the most intellectually dishonest politician" ever. Do you still agree? Barney: "I'd strike intellectual, but otherwise, yes."

Har!

Nate Silver is extremely smart but so socially awkward. Is he wearing ski goggles? I like his updated hair.

"This election feels tighter than Mitt Romney's ass in a prison shower." - Bill ~~~~~

Argo was SO good. ~~~~~ OMG- the election is in less than two weeks!

Binders Full of Women, Personal Space

Have you seen this new blog, Binders Full of Women? Hilarious and so quick (re both timing and wit). My favorites include:

Can we talk a bit about personal space? In my opinion, it is sacred, and in certain places, you just don't breach it. If you do, you're weird or need some socialization. In other instances, some space would surely be nice, and why the eff don't you want it too? Example 1. Oliver and I took Percy for a walk today and went to the ATM to deposit a check.  As I began to enter my PIN, I smelled a strong perfume and heard some breathing immediately behind me. Some freaky woman in black - I think there was some sort of feathered accessory- was standing RIGHT.THERE. Really? Who doesn't understand ATM etiquette? Lest you think you was from Mars, no. She spoke to my dog, calling him Little Beast in a weird, sing-songy American English.

Example 2: Before the previously discussed personal training episode, I was in the locker room putting up my bags and getting water. No one else is around. A woman walks in and which locker does she choose? Out of the hundreds available? The one directly under mine. Really? That's just effing weird, readers. Really strange.

Debate 2

Truly, is Romney seriously able to look himself in the mirror each day? How does Ann stomach the site of him? Did she know she was marrying a vacillating windsock who lies with abandon, who smirks with glee, who is so enamored with himself that he nearly twitches when someone applies rules to him? How is god's name is he going to pay for ANY of his grandiose ideas? I am so offended by his wild fibbing, by his refusal to respect American voters by providing them with any detail, by refusing to acknowledge any facts. I've never considered voting for Romney at all, but truly, I cannot understand why anyone voting for anything other than tax havens would. I really don't. Don't Americans care about their less fortunate fellow citizens? Doesn't anyone have any empathy or civic commitment anymore? If you do, you'd never vote for this blowfish clown. This kind of meanness is rooted in something evil. Whether or not it's conscious evil or a more subconscious relative, it's horrible. It's disconcerting. It's worrisome. It's demoralizing. The threads of this country's fabric are unraveling at a pace only equaled by that of melting polar ice caps. When did we become a country so dedicated to immediate gratification and selfishness that we'd short the future and our cohesion? Politics has become about much more than any one leader. It's become the saddest commentary on the dissolution of the foundation on which America was laid. Though I've been disappointed in Obama in a number of ways, I believe in my heart of hearts that he truly has the welfare of the country as his primary. I cannot in any way say the same for Romney, Ryan or really anyone in the GOP.