I can see Russia from my house

Everyone needs to watch THIS.

I swear, I really am going to stop talking about Sarah Palin. And really, this isn't about Sarah Palin! It is about how if the real Hillary Clinton had been half as awesome as SNL's Hillary Clinton, she totally would have gotten my vote! (Thanks, Ben, for the link!)

I have yet to see all of this episode of Saturday Night Live, but I LOVE that it was hosted by Michael Phelps. Not because Michael Phelps would be any good at it, of course, but be because he would suck at it. And I love the idea of America being fanatically obsessed with this guy, this goofy-looking kid, because he can swim really well. So we keep on getting him to do other things, like endorse products, or act, or drive while drunk, and he sucks at it all because really, all he can do is swim. Swim really really fast. Faster than anyone else on earth, and most fish.*

*It should be noted that I am one of those Americans fanatically obsessed with Phelps. He and Nastia Liukin made the Olympics for me. My only excuse is that I was into Phelps way before everyone else - I watched him at the 2004 Olympics and when the FINA world championships were in Melbourne in 2007 (where I was, of course) my roommates and I watched every race he swam on TV. We would go out to bars trolling for the US swimming team, but we only ever found the Slovakian team, though, so no luck. One day I was on the tram in Melbourne and overheard these angry Australians bitching about how "that damn Yankee Phelps is stealing our swimming medals! How dare he!" And I turned around and gave them a big smile, thinking "damn right." Also, I was on a swim team for, like, a month in middle school. I remember how hard butterfly is.

** Apologies to Ben, because this entire post is basically lifted out of an IM conversation I had with him. Sorry for the repetition!