2 posts tagged “mccain”

Sarah Palin is adorable, I grant you, but she makes me nervous. The hotsy-totsy Pentecostals always do.  As for her daughter's pregnancy, if Sarah's happy, then I'm happy for her. It's been many years since I've gotten any joy out of demonizing pregnant teenagers. What I'm not entirely psyched about is what Sarah has in mind for my daughters. As much as I love her beehive--and I really do; I totally want to try it out, though the thought of it makes me feel like one of those women who ran out to get Dorothy Hamill's wedge or Princess Di's cut or "the Rachel"--I really really don't want to live in Sarah Palin's America. I tried a buffalo burger once and I didn't like it at all. Something tells me eating moose would be a similar experience.

Is there any chance we could get Michael Palin instead? Because he's great. I really like him. If anybody could get me interested in Beltway politics, it'd be Michael Palin.

Michaelpalin

...Ericsson's primary finding is that rather than mere experience or even raw talent, it is dedicated, slogging, generally solitary exertion — repeatedly practicing the most difficult physical tasks for an athlete, repeatedly performing new and highly intricate computations for a mathematician — that leads to first-rate performance. And it should never get easier; if it does, you are coasting, not improving. Ericsson calls this exertion "deliberate practice," by which he means the kind of practice we hate, the kind that leads to failure and hair-pulling and fist-pounding.

From The Science of Experience, Time Magazine, 28 Feb. 2008