US is 'officially' in a recession. Gee... you think?

Apparently the National Bureau of Economic Research has made it official: the US is in a recession.

Wow. Slow news day, guys?

Not really.

I mean, with Clinton being named Secretary of State, and the war in Mexico, and the crisis in India...

It's a complicated time, but at the very least, the Christmas season has officially begun. I am a Christmas FREAK. To the point where my familyi immediately groans at the sound of Christmas music beginning to sound from my room exactly one day after Thanksgiving. Although I rushed through Thanksgiving I've decided that this year, despite being broke, I'm determined to fully embrace the Christmas spirit.

I even made a list.

Hopefully by the end of this Holiday season I will have:

- built my annual gingerbread house
- put together my annual christmas music CDs
- put together my baskets of goodies - including candies, cookies, and etc.
- learned christmas carols on my keyboard and guitar, or at the very least learned to fake it.
- done something charitable. With what little money I have.
- written a christmas story. an original one. just because i can.

And hopefully I will have done this without gaining ten pounds.

That will be the real challenge.

Tina Fey Brings the (Politically) Funny Back to SNL

In conclusion, I invite the media to grow a pair, and if you can't, I will lend you mine.
- Amy Poehler as Hilary Clinton, SNL

Saturday Night Live can be hit or miss with me, but this week's season premiere opener was the best in years. Not much in sketch comedy has made me want to simulatenously laugh and cry, but Tina Fey and Amy Poehler broke my brain a little with this scathingly honest depiction of the double standards presented with views of VP Republican candiate Sara Palin and ex-presidential hopeful Hilary Clinton.

No editorial notes here, this clip says it all.

Don't You Hate It When

You send your son a gorilla gram at school, convince the teacher to film it, and they send a stripper who spanks and whims in front of the students instead?

You're out there surfing and a great white shark attacks you? At the very least, the dolpins will save you.

Thousands of bananas randomly wash up on your beach?

You walk into a police station with a cigar full of weed and they have the ardacity to arrest you for it?

Seriously. Striking writers? I dare you to make any of this up.