Obama update:
Ghostwriters against Obama: I'm not sure why this strikes me an completely and utterly wrong. I suppose it's the way it views books as completely unrelated to the work of 'leading', as though leading was something only done on chat shows, and books were simply a sort of prop, and not a way of thinking and communicating. Other things that came up when trying to find out whether he wrote it himself... spiteful speculation from Lucianne.com and MyDD commenters. He's got the right enemies.

A book review: Fawning dribble? Perhaps. But I will have to read the book. _
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09:46:11 AM, Tuesday 31 October 2006

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On Point with Barack Obama. I was impressed. A politician that realizes his job is to help govern the country, not to win elections for his party. He's just so... reasonable. I may even need to read his book. _
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09:32:37 AM, Saturday 28 October 2006

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Wait. That's odd. Why do I associate Depeche Mode with Harry Potter? How did that happen? Oh, right, because some of you made me read some fanfic. _
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04:53:17 PM, Friday 27 October 2006

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Inexplicable is a good word. Wodehouse used it for all it's worth, particularly in The Luck of the Bodkins, It's the splick syllable that does it. It's also vaguely symmetrical around it.. in-ek-splick-ab-ul. It's quite similar to perhaps the most famous line on television... "you got some 'splainin to do" That has an extra syllable at each end, but they're the same shape, a line of short syllables with a grandiose one dead in the middle. The only other similarly amusing word I could think of is indubitably, which is a different mechanism, with the alternating d's and b's (I pronounce that t as a d, at least when I want it to be amusing), sort of like mississippi or banana, which are also somewhat amusing, but with the added symmetry. Any other inherently amusing words? _
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