No one really thinks about George W. Bush anymore

When's the last time anyone talked about George W. Bush except how they aren't him? Serious. Even journalists have abandoned him as an official source because they have Barack Obama and John McCain to talk to instead. Someone has lame duck syndrome.

You can only be a Washington, DC outsider for so long

Lots of talk about the inside D.C. politics makes me feel like I'm the enemy, and I've just been living here minding my own business. Lately, all this "pro-America" talk makes me wonder if I'm living in the "anti-America" part of the country. You know, because I live near lobbyists, politicians, and the homeless. I walk to work and take mass transit rather than on my four-wheeler. I have never killed something and then eaten it.

But all this talk had made me wonder, and apparently someone else too: what would Sarah Palin do here? Would she hang out in southern Virginia, because NoVa is "not real Virginia"? The other blog says she would eat out at Fuddruckers (which I can totally see...it's "real" American food) but doesn't give many other suggestions.

Would she continue to shop on the RNC dollar? Would her kids be allowed out of the White House into the big, scary world? Where will Bristol Palin have her baby?

It's a little hard to imagine the Palin family anywhere normal DCers go. Could you just imagine the entire clan at Ben's Chili Bowl?

No one watches Mad Men

Apparently, no one is watching one of the best shows on television. I'm at fault, too; I don't have AMC so I can't view it when it comes on Sunday nights. I watch it a few days later by streaming the video.

Thus I ask, or beg, AMC, please. Put this show online. I will watch the advertisements, support the show, if only you will let me. I rented it when it was available at the video store. I talk about it with people at work, on the phone, and now, on my blog. Do us a favor and hop on the online streaming bandwagon. Everyone's doing it.

Extreme Makeover: Sarah Palin edition

I do wish someone would give me $150,000 in clothes. Maybe I should campaign to be on the Republican ticket in four years. Well, two...the elections are like Christmas. They always begin before you think they should. Maybe they would pay my student loans.

Apparently some donors to the RNC are upset and want their money back. The RNC called no backsies.

Sarah Palin flies over image of herself

Someone has taken it upon themselves to fashion Sarah Palin's image in a corn field. CNN reports Sarah Palin flew over this lovely piece of artistry and immediately proclaimed it was a "pro-America" part of the country.

Meg Cabot works harder than you do

Meg Cabot is one hard worker. For one thing, she has published three books this year that I know about. There might be another one or two that I'm not thinking of. She went on a massive book tour. She does more in a year than I did the last four.

A question was asked to another young adult writer (Laurie Halse Anderson): what if your publisher expects more of the same, but instead you have a super historical fiction coming out of your fingers? It's called genre bending and the answer was pretty much, well, your publisher freaks out. Somehow, Meg Cabot gets around this, writing historical fiction, science fiction, romance, fiction for adults, fiction for young adults, and fiction for intermediate readers.

This woman is a writing super hero. Sometimes its painful for me to imagine writing an email, and this woman is writing a book every four months!

I love Google Adsense

Google Ads were the first that I willingly clicked on, mostly because they led to articles or pages that I found legitimately interesting. I also think they are aesthetically pleasing.

They remain my favourite advertisements, right above those where you click to hit a home run. It is also very easy to set up an account, and easy to get approved; after all, I got approved.

While I haven't yet made any money, it is amazing to think that there are people who earn lots of money from blogging, enough to call it an income. Think about that the next time you visit a site with advertisements: that may be the way they are supporting themselves.

The funniest, I think, is when budgeting blogs, which typically begin because a person is so in debt they need a way to organize it all, begin making money off of their advertisements. Originally used as a tool (kind of like a calorie counter), it earns the person money to pay off their debts!