And, with no comment, here's the now convicted criminal just doing some pallin' around:
Some critics have accused McCain of starting Palin only to attract attention; not for her football prowess. Others have supported the pick, calling it "brilliant". Warriors tickets have been a hard sell in recent months so one cannot blame coach McCain for trying something uncanny. The media has made numerous attempts to reach Palin, but to no avail. Widely regarded as fragile, the true freshman has been shielded from the media since the start of the season. In a rare interview, she was asked to give some examples of the basic strategies she and the offense will employ in the upcoming match-up and she responded, "I'll try to find you some and I'll bring 'em to ya."
Her previous starts this season were nothing short of disastrous and many are worried where the Warriors' season is headed. Buckeye fans strongly believe this upcoming match-up between the highly touted, division 1-A Ohio State Buckeyes and the Wasilla High Warriors from a high school consisting of three rooms and an outhouse will expose Palin, finally proving she is unfit to lead her team.
The Buckeyes bring the prodigious Heisman hopeful Joe Biden to the field. In contrast to Palin, Biden's season has been nothing short of phenomenal. Passing for 2300 yards on 138/141 completions and rushing for another 2100 in five games this season, Biden makes the Buckeyes the unanimous favorite.
Time will tell whether this underdog, lipstick and all, can bring the ultimate upset...but let's put it this way: we are more likely to witness the second coming of Christ by Thursday.
Serious, football lolz. USC is pretty good though, so there might also be balls. Here are some predictions from the BoL crew:
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30-17by 3The answer is in thinking
about certain organized religions as a sort of really, really
terribly managed health insurance agency.
Here's the idea: An
insurance company operates by gambling on the wellbeing of its
customers. If it wins most of its bets then it has money at the end
of the day and can continue to sell insurance. If not, it either
needs a government bailout or it will go to insurance company heaven.
Because people tend to enjoy staying alive, they are 'risk averse'
and are paranoid about dying or getting hurt so they bet that they
will get sick. The insurance company, with its voodoo economic models
which no one understands, can make a pretty good bet that people
won't get sick and thus they make a profit and can continue to
exist.
One big problem for the insurance company though is the
asymmetry of information. When I go to buy insurance I know
everything about my health. The insurance company only knows that I
am a 21-year-old white male college student. Because of this
asymmetry I have an advantage over the insurance company. I know
exactly whether or not the deal they are offering me is to my benefit
and they can only make a guess. If I have a weird lump on my balls or
have been a smoker and fast food addict since ten, I am pretty sure
that I want health insurance because the likely pay off is huge.
However if I am a perfectly healthy Olympic athlete, or a certain
invincible drunk college roommate who is pretty sure they won't drive
off the side of my steep driveway at 2 AM, I am less likely to seek
out health insurance because the likely payoff is going to be
smaller.
This concept is called 'Adverse selection', which is when an insurance company gets plagued by bad bets because the customers have more information than they do. This is also the basis for criticism of Barack Obama's universal health care plan, which does not require everyone to be covered and thus invites the adverse selection menace. Organized religion can be seen as being plagued by adverse selection.
The insurance plan they are offering is this: By earning Jesus' forgiveness you can insure your eternal soul from burning in hell by going to church, telling people about Jesus all the time, not masturbating, and putting Proverbs X:X on your Facebook wall. The price is pretty small, given the infinitely large payoff.
Those who feel they are good people and are pretty sure they will get into heaven don't feel the need to go to church and tell everyone about Jesus. To them it is like buying UFO attack insurance or Anti-Santa insurance (unlike the Jolly Elf who Ho-Hos and distributes gifts to children across the world on Christmas Eve, an Anti-Santa closely resembles one of my roommates who may or may not roam the neighborhood late at night with a garbage bag slung over their shoulder puking and distributing their trash in various backyards to avoid buying trash stickers). Although it would be really bad to be attacked by a UFO or an Anti-Santa, most people are unlikely to buy insurance for such a thing, even if the cost is relatively small. However those who genuinely feel there is a good case for them going to hell are willing to pay the price. Those such as Ted Haggerd who seem to be paying an unusually high price must be attempting to buy extra coverage.
Therefore, if one were to look at the portfolio of any given church, it would most likely have more bad apples relative to good ones and thus be morally bankrupt.
There are two solutions religions have for this adverse selection problem. One, like Hilary Clinton's health care plan, is to demand universal coverage. Everyone has to go to church and talk about Jesus all the time in order to avoid hell, the good people too. That way the virtue of the good people can pick up the slack of the pukers.
The second option is a major government bailout for the insolvent institution similar to the ones that were given to mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. According to the historical record this has already been done once, when Jesus died on the cross and absolved us of all of our sins. However, because no structural changes were made to the soul insurance institution the buzz is that a similar bailout is scheduled for sometime in the near future.