Rubénerd :)

Newt and Calista Gingrich, please report to the south coast of the US for cleanup duty.

The problem isn’t that you’re paying too much for petrol Newt, its that you’d rather spend time and effort drilling in the middle of the friggen ocean instead of developing alternatives, all under a thin veil of patriotism. Any temporary reduction in prices would only provide temporary relief, and would do nothing to solve either the energy crisis of which you speak, or energy independence.

I’m assuming he wasn’t being sarcastic, if you were sir then please disregard.

Liked Going Rogue by Sarah Palin on Audible.com.

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I don’t think it’s Audible’s fault, but that doesn’t make it any less irritating or dissapointing, I heard amazing things about that book. Hey, “heard” amazing things, that was an above average pun for me.

Fortunately that was the first time that happened, every other book I’ve been able to get without problems.

It’s another Audible blog post; one would think I’m a beginning to develop an obsession. In this case though it’s their filing of Going Rogue [allegedly] written by Sarah Palin under… Nonfiction. I tell you what, when all is said and done, it’s good to see the database maintainers on Audible have a sense of humour… by golly, you betcha!

In related news, I’m terrified both of Sarah Palin and the fact she’s being taken seriously by so many people in the US. I’m dead serious. It makes be break out in a cold sweat thinking just how close she became to essentially being vice president of Earth in 2008, and how she’s already being tipped for 2012.

You know what, I might listen to the book though, if only to be fair. I wonder if she read Dreams from my Father?

Remember a few days ago I finally caved into TWiT pressure and got an Audible account? Well I finished my first book already and just posted my first review! I think a new addiction may be brewing.

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When a certain subset of students (alliteration is awesome) finish their exams for a semester they celebrate by intoxicating themselves with certain fermented beverages, while other more socially awkward loser types such as myself sit back and write a blog post about how they’re investigating signing up for Audible.com, then like a child on Christmas Eve because they’re too excited to wait they go ahead and register for it before they’ve finished said investigation.

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I tell you what, having been a listener to TWiT and most of Leo’s other shows since the beginning I’ve been hearing a lot about Audible and have finally decided to take the plunge! There’s only one small problem, as an Aussie who lives in Australia and Singapore I’m not sure which of their sites to use. In their English language forms, Audible is made up of Audible.com in the United States and Audible.co.uk in the United Kingdom, neither country of which I’m a resident of.

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