Truth Is All Around (The Michelle Bachmann Song 2)

And now, Rep Michelle Bachmann (R-LaLa Land) as Mary Richards in

Truth Is All Around (The Michelle Bachmann Song 2)
Original words and music “Love is All Around” by Paul Williams
Additional lyrics by Wayne A. Schneider

Who can turn her brain off with her smile?
Who can start an interview, and suddenly make it all seem worthwhile?

I’m A Deceiver (The Michelle Bachmann Song)

If you haven’t heard about Minnesota Rep Michelle Bachmann’s latest departure from reality, you can read about it at The Zoo.

I’m A Deceiver (The Michelle Bachmann Song)
Original words and music “I’m a Believer” by Neil Diamond
Additional lyrics by Wayne A. Schneider

I thought facts were only true in fairy tales
Meant for someone else but not for me
Libs are out to get me (doo-do do-doo)
Now that’s the way it seems (doo-do do-doo)
Real annoying fact checks haunt my dreams

When you see my face, Know I’m a deceiver

Who’ll Stop The Pain

As influenced by an op-ed by Nobel-winning economist, Paul Krugman.

Who’ll Stop The Pain
Original words and music, “Who’ll Stop The Rain” by John Fogerty
Additional lyrics by Wayne A. Schneider

Long before November
The pain been comin down.
Worst in history showin’
Recession all around.

How Much is a Trillion, Pt 2

In How Much is a Trillion, we talked about how a trillion of anything could relate to us as individuals. For those seeking a great job, one paying $1 for every second, they were unlikely to even earn a trillion dollars, as it would take more than 31,000 years to do it. Remember, that’s $1/second. And it would take more than 31,000 years to spend/earn a trillion dollars. Moving on, for sports fans, we compared a trillion dollars to the amount of money it would take to give every major baseball player on the 40-man roster of every one of the thirty teams, a $250 million contract just like A-Rod’s. And we found that they were short of a trillion dollars, with plenty of room to spare. So much room, that they could have, effectively given every player a $750 million contract, and still not quite reached a trillion, though they would be close. Then we looked out into the depths of space to find that the furthest things we’ve seen out there were about 90 trillion miles away, but the light from them would take 15 billion years to reach us, just so we could see what they were up to 15 billion years ago. Well, here’s some more perspective. We found out from our $1/second job that it would take 31,709 years to reach one trillion seconds. (That’s 1,000,000,000,000.)

One trillion seconds ago, humans were just becoming humans. We used to call them Cro-Magnon, but scientists seem to favor the term “Early Modern Humans” (or EMH) now. Not sure why. Something to do with them not really being all that different from Neanderthals after all. A trillion seconds ago, the Earth was coming out of its last ice age.

A trillion minutes ago