* Obama turned 50 years old yesterday, and the market celebrated by dropping ten points for each year Obama has been alive (and a few extra for good luck). It doesn’t seem like getting Obama to let up on the gas a little as he races towards a cliff was enough to convince the markets things are going to be peachy.

But, man, 50 years old — that’s a long time not to pay much attention. I mean I look at him with his fifty years of experience of… whatever exactly it is he did with his life, and then I see what a foolish president he is and it’s like he’s barely learned anything worthwhile in his life. How do you do that for fifty years? How do you keep yourself at such a distance from reality so as not to learn anything about it? I mean, I won’t be fifty for another eighteen years, and over that time I expect to learn so much that at a half a century I’ll be unstoppable. Literally unstoppable. Nations and armies will try to stop me, but they won’t be able to.

Because I’ll be so knowledgeable.

* BTW, Obama has said he’s going to “pivot to jobs”. He’s said that a number of times before, but this time he totally means it. Unfortunately, Jay Carney undermined him a bit when he said the unfortunate truth “The White House doesn’t create jobs.” Really, if you’re waiting on Obama to create jobs, you’re an idiot. The man has never held a real job in his life — much of his cabinet hasn’t either; why in the world would anyone think he has the slightest idea how jobs are created. He doesn’t even know what a job looks like. It’s like waiting on a caveman to build you an airplane.

* I spoke too soon! Obama’s pivot on jobs worked! Unemployment has shot down by 0.1% Of course, these numbers always get adjusted later, and it’s always the other way. Also, a lot of the drop in unemployment is from people giving up on looking for work. Actually, there’s a doable strategy for Obama to eliminate unemployment: Make it so bleak and depressing that everyone just gives up. Finally, an economic idea that Obama would actually have some skills at.

* Congress’s disapproval is at a record 82%. I don’t see why. Congress isn’t doing much, and they’re taking a long time to do it. What else would you want?

* Sarah Palin responded to Biden calling Tea Party members terrorists with this:

“Yeah, right. Independent patriotic Americans who desire fiscal sanity in our beloved nation being called terrorists, heck, Sean, if we were real domestic terrorists, shoot, President Obama would be wanting to pal around with us, wouldn’t he?”

I’m just surprised someone hasn’t reported this yet as “Palin Says ‘Shoot President Obama'”.

* The Communist Party has already endorsed President Obama for the 2012 election. Seems a little premature when they don’t even know who the Republicans are nominating, but guess it’s just hard for them to imagine a better candidate for Communist to vote for than Obama. I’d have trouble imagining a better one, but I’ll try…

No, anytime I try to use my imagination, all I can ever think of are dinosaurs fighting giant robots.

* When speaking to Keith Olbermann, Al Gore said… Okay, I can’t even pretend to care. Let’s just move on.

* When I brought up RiffTrax in the last Nuke the News, a few people said they like MST3K better, but I disagree. I’ve been watching some of those too, but the riffing seems slower back then. I think they’ve really refined their skills since the TV show and the humor is much punchier. Also, I get more of the references; some of MST3K — especially with Joel — could be pretty obscure. Furthermore, the ScfFi channel seasons were actually my favorite, and RiffTrax has the same three from then (Michael J. Nelson, Kevin Murphy, and Bill Corbett). Plus, it’s pretty cool to finally see them take on blockbusters instead of just bad movies we’ve never seen before.

Though I do agree I miss the silhouettes.

* In the area of this being my blog and I’ll talk about what I want, I would like to reminisce about video games. One of my all time favorite video game experiences was the game Riven, the sequel to Myst. I got that game while home on Christmas vacation from college and thus had lots of time to sit down and play it uninterrupted. And the way you start out in a big confusing world where nothing makes sense and then, through lots of exploration and trial and error, it all eventually comes together and makes sense was just beautiful. I still remember the glory of finally realizing *SPOILER* they were using a base five numbering system, which finally put a bunch of confusing things into place. It reminds me a lot of reverse engineering and debugging someone else’s code, how you have to slowly follow the logic and piece it together.

I know hardcore gamers scoff at the Myst series, but that was one of my all time favorite game experiences. I say favorite experience versus favorite game, because you can’t really ever go back and play it again and it be anywhere near like the first time.