Interesting from the delivery suite discussion - to haver a pregnancy is 9 months, which to us, seems like quite a while. I would imagine it seems even longer for women, where I can merely assume it seems long, having never been pregnant myself ( ). But then we expanded out to talking about other animals, and my Google-fu had to kick in... How bad would it be for other animals? Thanks to this site (which put all the data together as a statistics exercise) we can know!

Man, compared to all these other mammals, has it easy! African elephants get screwed... this would be the equivalent of spending 4.5 years in pregnancy! Youch!

An alternative is to convert all time spent doing anything into percent of your life - One hour meeting that makes you want to eat a gun? Congrats, you just wasted 0.0011% of your life!

Think what you will about her, but she's clearly a strong politician. But two moves recently, seem to be just weird:

#1) Insulting the (new?) media

Yes, that's very smart. The people who helped get you the nomination were bloggers. Insulting them is probably not a good move. Fine if you were just talking about a subset, but that's still no good boss. Bloggers are very defensive about not being characterized as unprofessional.

#2) Announcing you're running in 2012. What? WHAT?? First, you have some damage control to do with aides/Republicans. Look at the rumors being spread by your own people. Second, aren't you still governor? Wouldn't you like to finish that out? Third, the president-elect hasn't even had his first day in office - maybe you'd like to work WITH him before you get him out of office?

I dunno... I think Sarah Palin knew at some point through the phone call that she was being punked. ( )Nothing you can do to prevent idiots from calling you up I suppose.