1. Tina Fey made it official: Sarah Palin's 15 minutes are almost over
2. McCain's bump is over with Obama retaking the lead in all the major polls
3. Obama was right not to panic, but his supporters were right to be nervous
4. David Foster Wallace was much more beloved by nerds than I would have previously thought - additionally, his short stories always seemed a little exploitative to me, but now I see that they were just very, very sad
5. Ohio State's problem for the last three years has been the offensive line play - end of story
6. Fringe is quite possibly the most derivative show on TV - every idea is instantly familiar, well-worn and borrowed - JJ Abrams is starting to seem cynical w/r/t what nerds will watch
7. Capitalism, like communism before it, works better in theory than in practice - in practice it is little more than a fast-talking game of three card monte and it has the unfortunate effect of making stupid people seem much smarter than they really are simply through the inequitable distribution of wealth
8. Spain is a Central American nation populated by mustachioed banditos
9. There have still been no great records in 2008
10. I really need Steven Jackson of the St. Louis Rams to start stepping it up and I need Carolina's Steve Smith to have a monster weekend now that his suspension is over
