Cynematik • Cyndi Greening

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I love Tina Fey and Amy Poehler! They are amazing. This opening sketch from Saturday Night Live is priceless!

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I just got back from New York. I am an unusual midwesterner. I do NOT enjoy over-friendly waitresses and servers. I do NOT enjoy shuttle drivers who try to be tour guides. Most of all, I really do NOT enjoy chatty cabbies. First of all, I am generally sad to be leaving whomever I am leaving (in this case, my son). I’m often over-tired because I’ve stayed up too late the night before trying to soak up every remaining minute. Finally, I just want to go to the airport in the comfort of my own thoughts and, this particular trip, I had a lot to think about. So, of course, I get the world’s chattiest cabbie.

The guy was an expert on everything political. He couldn’t stop talking about how the Republicans hated the country (you’d think I’d like that) because they always serve their own interests and the interests of their friends and business partners. Then he started on Sarah Palin, the running mate of John McCain. He starts telling me that Brooklyn is the same size as Alaska in both area and population. I think this guy is out of his mind. I’m listening to a raving idiot. I tell him, “I don’t think that’s right. I think Alaska is a lot bigger than Brooklyn.” You ever driven from one end of Brooklyn to the other, he asks me? You have no idea, he says to me. Brooklyn is HUGE. Alaska only looks big on the map, he says, Brooklyn IS big. And then he tells me an even more unbelievable fact. “And there’s only about 2000 people in the whole state.” My tiny hometown had 12,000 people so I am quite sure that is so very wrong.

I get home and I can hardly wait to get online. And what do I discover? Brooklyn is about 96 square miles. Alaska is 656,000 square miles. Alaska is almost 7000 times larger than Brooklyn. So I check out the population data. Brooklyn has 2,465,326 residents, that’s more than 34,000 people per square mile. Alaska has 683,478 residents, about 1.2 people per square mile. Not 2000 but it sure seems paltry in comparison.

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Jon Stewart has such a gift for elucidating rampant political insanity.

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