Thanks to DP for this. This is ridiculous.

good to know...

if you're in St. Louis County, find out yours here: St. Louis County Board of Election Commissioners

What's really sad is that only about half of these names sound familiar.  What do they stand for, who are these people?  Does it matter?

Am I going to get educated on the election and base my decision on the graphic design of their campaign lawn signs?  There's a sign for Jane Cunningham that I want to steal the day after the election from a yard that I pass on my way to school.  It has (this) picture of her on it.  I think I'm going to put it in one of the random rooms in our house.  

HSM3: OMG

New York-based economist John Dunham thinks the Giffen Paradox could pay off for HSM3, too. That theory holds, in apparent Veblen-style, that as a product's price "goes up, people want more of it," he says, although adding that it's more likely to work for Chanel handbags, than G-rated movies. (George thinks the Giffen Paradox really only worked for potatoes in Ireland during the potato famine.)
In any case, the downside to charging admission for a movie experience that only recently was free-ish is that, as Dunham reminds, "as something becomes more expensive, demand falls."
"How those forces play against each other is going to determine how the movie does," Dunham says.

yahoo news: "Zac Efron…and the Giffen Paradox!?"

okay, so I've seen HSM3 twice now (first time at the midnight showing last Thursday) and it's absolutely wonderful and cheesy and wonderful.  And I think that these economists are crap.  It's going to make a ton of money.  

November Project: Dance like THIS

especially the shake and then go down on one leg. omg.

“Differences are meant to draw out the part of us that is frightened and repulsed by someone alien and to expose God’s delight in the strange and the odd.”

- p. 13, The Intimate Mystery by Dan Allender and Tremper Longman III, for my Marriage & Family Counseling class.

Madeline Peyroux

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