try to understand

i re-read my blog about the web sites i read and felt a bit shallow. it's gone now. inspiring me to...try again.

i'm home for mlk day (thanks education institution!)and watching all the pre-inauguration hubbub on tv and reading up on my world news online. this will likely result in a midday panic attack and the stockpiling of money, guns, and canned meat. i get it from my mother. :) she hasn't asked me to prepare an escape route out of tulsa like she did on election day. this is a good sign.

i came across this article on time.com about understanding a trillion-dollar deficit. some lines i liked:
"There is a sense that when numbers are too big or too small, the brain just shuts off," says Colin Camerer, a professor of behavioral economics at the California Institute of Technology. "People either don't think about it at all or there is fear, an exaggerated reaction."

"My favorite way to think of it is in terms of seconds," says David Schwartz, a children's book author whose How Much Is a Million? tries to wrap young minds around the concept. "One million seconds comes out to be about 11½ days. A billion seconds is 32 years. And a trillion seconds is 32,000 years."

"A $700 billion bailout thereby translates into $45 per week for each American man, woman and child. Going one step further, it comes out to $6 a day. Are you willing to pay $6 a day to have a functioning financial system?"

this helped a bit. my brain stretched farther than understanding why hammer pants are coming back on the runways.

you should probably tell me what you wish you could understand....like those korean ladies at the nail place, right brooke?

try harder to impress me

one of the news headlines on yahoo's site was Obama takes a break for some chili and sausage in D.C.

i really do not like my president being exploited like he is freaking lindsay lohan or something. also, associated press, is it just a slow news day or is this really hard hitting journalism?

when he wasn't eating, obama has also made some interesting decisions such as suggesting congress delay the dtv switchover due to take place in february. this after the federal government has required broadcasters to not only be preparing their own stations for the mandated change but also forfeiting millions of dollars of advertising airtime for required airing of dtv awareness psas. i thought (and hope) he had a grasp on reality. and i understand his reasons it just doesn't seem feasible to me. or fair.

i'm actually in a good mood today. i should avoid news outlets. and you should probably try harder to impress me, world.