Okay so things are really slow at work, and because I'm a salary employee, I am required to stay at the restaurant for at least nine hours when I am in schedule. Basically, if there is no one in the restaurant, then I can't really do anything. There is only so much that I can prep before I reach a point where I can't do any more or risk wasting food which would drive up the food cost. *Flashbacks of sitting in Cost Control class thinking of ways to end my misery* Anyway, is I'm not chit chatting with the other employees; I'm left to find other ways to entertain myself. So, if you have the nerve, come have a look at what odd thought that I was pondering today.

Pinky Is The Brain!



No, I'm serious, but first off, if you don't know who Pinky and the Brain are, then you are either still in high school, or have lived a very deprived life, and there is no point in reading any further because you will not have any idea what I am talking about. So anyway, for those of you who know who Pinky and the Brain are, let me refresh your memories.



"They're Pinky and The Brain
Yes, Pinky and The Brain
One is a genius
The other's insane.
They're laboratory mice
Their genes have been spliced
They're dinky
They're Pinky and The Brain, Brain, Brain, Brain
Brain, Brain, Brain, Brain
Brain." (Music by Richard Stone. Lyrics by Tom Ruegger)

The song describes them as, "One is a genius, the other's insane." Now, the average viewer would assume that "genius" refers to Brain, but I say that you are WRONG! It is not Brain who is the genius, but Pinky. Just based on simple analysis of the song, it starts out with "Pinky and the Brain." Pinky is listed first, and Brain second, so when you progress later into the song to where it says, "One is a genius, the other's insane." The order still applies. Hence it says so in the song that Pinky is a genius and Brain is insane.

Now we can take this information and apply it to the rest of the show. Yes, Brain does have a vast intellect, but who was it that foiled every one of Brain's plans? That's right Pinky, and the entire time playing the fool to deflect suspicion from him self. Pinky, being the smarter of the two realized that the best course of action was to make Brain think that he was an idiot so that Brain would never suspect his true agenda. Any and every time Pinky did something to mess up Brain's plan, Brain just chalked it up to Pinky being an idiot. If Brain were truly a genius, he would have learned from his previous failures and simply removed Pinky from the equation. All he would have had to do was say, "No Pinky, you stay here, I'll be back in the morning."

The one thing that was truly ingenious about Pinky was that he played the fool so well that Brain never suspected what Pinky was actually doing. By playing the role of the bumbling sidekick, Pinky appealed to Brain's narcissism, and arrogance. What is the point of conquering the world if no one is there to witness you doing it? And so Brain's ego would not allow himself to leave Pinky at the lab. He needed to have someone there to see his greatest triumph. As a result, Pinky knew every aspect of Brain's plans for world domination, which made is easy for him to figure out how best to prevent Brain from succeeding. Yes Brain is smart, but Pinky's ability to foil every one of Brain's plots without him even knowing it just proves that Pinky is a lot smarter.

When watching the debate something McCain said sounded familiar to me. I swore that I heard that exact quote on NPR a few days ago, and it didn't take me long to find it.

Sept. 26, 2008; Oxford, Miss.
"President Eisenhower, on the night before the Normandy invasion, went into his room, and he wrote out two letters. One of them was a letter congratulating the great members of the military and allies that had conducted and succeeded in the greatest invasion in history, still to this day, and forever. And he wrote out another letter, and that was a letter of resignation from the United States Army for the failure of the landings at Normandy."

Sept. 19, 2008; Green Bay, Wisc.
"He went to his quarters the night before the invasion and wrote out two letters. One of them was a letter of congratulations to the brave Americans and allies who landed at Normandy and made the most successful invasion and they brought about the beginning of the end of World War II. The other letter he wrote out was his resignation from the United States Army, taking full responsibility for the failure of that invasion,"

Now, I know that they are coached for these debates, and that they have set answers and speeches, but reusing sound bytes? Or worse, reusing an incorrect sound byte. No where in that note Eisenhower wrote did he make any mention of resigning. You would think that since he used this line before, that he would have made sure that it was historically accurate.

To be honest, the format change didn't really bother me one way or another, but I realize that there are people here who are dissatisfied with the change. I do agree that the arbitrary switch was a bit sudden so I will agree to participate because, if anything, maybe next time the powers that be will take this into concideration and take a more diplomatic route the next time.

More info about the blackout can be found here.