mushin no shin

This is pretty cool. Mother Jones told us about The Typealyzer, which probes your blog and computes your Myers-Briggs type based on content:

INTP - The Thinkers

The logical and analytical type. They are especially attuned to difficult creative and intellectual challenges and always look for something more complex to dig into. They are great at finding [...]

While the content of the post is completely unrelated, the Onion somehow managed to perfectly capture the essence of the woes of Tennessee Democrats with just a title:
Phil’s Party Reminds Area Man Why He Doesn’t Go To Phil’s Parties

OK, I’ve been googling to try and find any article probing into the question of Rahm Emanuel’s intelligence, one hundred percent for the purpose of making a post with this title. I found a lot of one-liners about him being a smart guy, but nothing pointed on the subject like what I was looking for. [...]

Rex led us to this xkcd comic:

Yep, that’s about right.
Actually 2012 doesn’t seem like much of a mystery to me. Barring some unforseen tragedy — which could include anything from the unthinkable, to Obama just really fucking things up — I think we’ll see an incumbent Obama handily defeating either Huckabee or Romney. The Republicans [...]

A commenter on 3 AM Polls: McCain Running Out of Time, Undecideds writes:

it doesn’t look like McCain will have enough time to convince the American people that Obama is the atheistic, bastard lovechild of Eugene Debs and Emma Goldman.

Which I just had to post on because that would SO be my candidate :)

Not quite sure what to make of McCain’s appearance on SNL:

It was funny, certainly, and McCain definitely brings back his likable side. But what strikes me — by appearing with Tina Fey, and allowing her to do the whole “going rogue” bit and all — he seems to be basically admitting what has so far [...]

John Stewart last night made a great joke in reference to the shots of the amber waves of grain in the Obama infomercial, to paraphrase — “Finally, a candidate you want to make a beer with!”
And now the Beer Activist tells us about … wait for it… The Audacity of Hops –

‘08% ABV and full [...]

I lack the discipline to get into weekly theme posts like the “feel good Friday” thing, but Halloween on a Friday calls for some celebrating. Perhaps a double shot, even.
It’s just not Halloween without Danny Elfman:

Or that master songsmith of gothic macabre, Weird Al:

(Sorry I couldn’t find a version where the video didn’t sort of [...]

Nicely done:

Though I really do pretty much agree with Lesley, still David Sedaris brings the funny on The Undecided:

To put them in perspective, I think of being on an airplane. The flight attendant comes down the aisle with her food cart and, eventually, parks it beside my seat. “Can I interest you in the chicken?” she [...]