Megorious

Even though John McCain has already won the debate he is putting the country first tonight and going through with it anyway. What a patriot!

The Commission on Presidential Debates has the official rules & debate format.

FINAL THOUGHTS: While many of the pundits on various channels were quick to anoint John McCain the winner, I don’t see it that way. Barack Obama didn’t win but he did stand his ground. Neither candidate knocked this out of the park.

Obama preformed much better than I thought he would. He seemed comfortable, at ease, and presidential at many times.

McCain, on the other hand, didn’t come off as presidential once. He never looked at Obama and he seemed to be condescending, but not in a wise, learned elder sort of way.

I guess you could call it a draw, a tie, whatever. But McCain, who has had two bad weeks in a row, has a lot more to lose from an even debate.

(Live Blogging: McCain v. Obama - Round One)

There is something seriously fucked up with this country. A little while ago word broke that Britney Spears had lost custody of her children. I posted a link to the story. A minute later I posted a lie - that the United States had invaded and started bombing Iran. I wanted to see how many people clicked on each one. I monitored my site traffic to see who was clicking on what. In just two hours I had more than 200 clicks from Facebook, Reddit, and various RSS readers. Most of the clicks came from RSS and Facebook. I did not count search engine inquires.

From Facebook and the RSS feed, the option was two hyperlinks that appeared right next to each other like so:

US Military has begun bombing Iran. And so another war has begun. We’ve invaded Iran.

Britney Spears loses custody of her children. Britney Spears has lost custody of her children to her husband, what’s his face.

This little experiment was by no means scientific. It just took people’s instinct into consideration by giving them a choice to see what was more important.

In just under an hour, the Britney Spears link got 202 unique clicks. How many clicks did the Iran story get? Six. Just six. It doesn’t matter that the war story wasn’t true. When presented with two hyperlinks you don’t know what the contents of the link will be. Your choice is made solely on the information presented in the text. In this case, more people were concerned with the private life of a celebrity has-been than the possibility of our government starting yet another war.

Seriously people, we need to get our priorities in check. The next time Paris Hilton or Britney Spears takes a shit, the Bush administration might use that as a diversion to pull off another heinous crime. Stop obsessing over the lives of the pathetic and start living your own damn lives. If you don’t care, the media won’t care. If you don’t watch, they won’t show. It’s simple supply and demand: take away the demand and the supply will falter.

Why do you care anyway?

And so another war has begun. We’ve invaded Iran.

Think Progress has the news that the Lieberman-Kyl Iran amendment, which threatens to “combat, contain and [stop]” Iran via “military instruments” has passed by a vote of 76-22.