So now life is imitating cartoons. On that note, I will bring up something else about Sarah’s beauty secrets: her lipstick.

“The OODA loop is a concept coined by fighter ace John Boyd. It stands for Observation-Orientation-Decision-Action.
You see something. You figure out what it means. You decide what you’re going to do about it, and then you do it. The winner in a dogfight is the pilot who goes through the OODA loop faster.”

“But Mr. Obama has a legitimate beef with the news media. Were it not for their vicious, baseless characterizations of Ms. Palin and her family, the audience for her speech would not have been comparable to his in the Barackopolis. Nor could she have delivered to Mr. McCain on the following night an even bigger audience than Mr. Obama attracted. For Republicans, the irony is delicious.”

Article published Saturday, September 13, 2008
Obama on the ropes