Did you feel a seismic shift in the internet the other day? Well this picture may have been the reason why.

Apparently you will either see a blue and black dress when you look at this picture, or a white and gold dress.

Arguments became so animated the it even threatened some marriages.

For the record I see a blue and black dress, which as it turns out is exactly what it is.

However scientists have weighed in as to why some people's eyes have played them for a fool.

Yeah but Sarah Palin doesn't believe in Evolution!

This is from an article entitled "The Evolution of Sarah Palin."

Palin still lands big gigs: She’s billed as the closing speaker at this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference, which starts Thursday. And she continues to create media dust-ups in a few simple words, as evidenced by her “Vote for Newt; annoy a liberal” comment on Fox News last month. 

But ever since she ended her flirtation with a presidential bid last October, signs have pointed to a long, slow descent into the political has-beens basement for Palin. Perhaps the most telling detail is her political action committee’s most recent fundraising numbers. 

SarahPAC raised roughly $756,000 in the second half of 2011, down from the consistent seven-figure reporting periods it had before then. 

It looks as though Palin might be morphing into less a political powerhouse and more a reality-television star. 

“ ‘Game Change’ will further [her] celebrity,” says Marie Wilson, founder and president emeritus of The White House Project, an organization that works to advance women in politics and business. The movie is scheduled for release next month. 

The more celebrity-like she becomes, the less likely it is that she will be able to reemerge as a serious candidate for public office, Wilson and other experts say. The result is a word just a year ago few people would have associated with her: irrelevance. 

“I actually don’t hear anybody talking about her,” Tea Party Patriots co-founder Mark Meckler says. 

While I agree that Palin has become virtually irrelevant, I disagree that she has evolved in any significant manner.  In fact the only thing that has evolved is the way that Palin is now perceived.

When she talked as if she was seriously thinking about running for the GOP nomination, even though, as her daughter Bristol let slip early on, she was never REALLY going to launch a campaign, people perceived her as a potential player in the political arena.

After she finally had to drop the tease and let people in on the fact that she was  NOT running, everybody did  a reality check and started seeing her for what she truly was. A grifter, using the perception that she was a viable candidate, to drain her supporters of their hard earned cash.

In other words, she was all sizzle and no steak.

That is a common theme running through Palin's history.

She makes a completely fabricated claims about her abilities, or intentions, and that becomes the prism through which people view her.

Her claim about being an "energy expert" is based almost exclusively on her 11 month tenure on the Oil and Gas Commission back in 2003. A job she received solely as a consolation prize after Frank Murkowski passed her over and give his Senate seat to his daughter, and a position she was only allowed to have because it was decided the board needed one civilian, with virtually NO experience in the field, to represent the average Alaskan. Apparently, according to this appointment, the average Alaskan is a dipshit.

Even Palin's athletic claims are based on hyperbole, when in fact she was a mediocre basketball player whose claim to fame was a foul shot she made during a winning game that was completely unnecessary since her team, the Wasilla Warriors, had already won by four points.

This holds true, as most of us here well know, when it comes to her claims concerning her Christian faith (She NEVER attends services), her mothering abilities (Every one of the kids has significant behavioral difficulties), and her self identified reputation as a fighter against corruption and "cronyism." (Palin famously filled her cabinet with loyal friends from high school and used her position as Governor to attack those who had dared stand up to her in the past , like ex-brother-in-law Mike Wooten.)

So has Sarah Palin "evolved?"

No.  She is essentially the same Sarah Palin that she has always been.  Except now there are a whole lot MORE people that see through her bullshit.

Michele Bachmann plays to female stereotype by subserviently pouring water for all of her male GOP presidential rivals.

Okay somebody sent this to me in an e-mail and I have not been able to stop thinking about it.

It took me a while to determine WHY I found it so troubling, but then it dawned on me that Bachmann, by essentially playing serving wench to a room full of powerful men, had essentially undermined females everywhere.

Now I will need the women, especially those of you who have lived through the battle for equality in the sixties and seventies, to weigh in on this and tell me if I am off base, but to my mind Bachmann reduced herself from powerful representative of females in this country, to a second class citizen serving the needs of her male superiors.

Now before you jump on me for being sexist, I would like to point out that if ANY of the men who are currently at the bottom of the polling heap had done something similar I would have perceived that as a sign of weakness as well, and the end of their candidacy. And yes I will concede that also applies to Herman Cain, who is NOT at the bottom of the polls but due to certain prejudices would have played into a stereotype that would have dramatically reduced his electability.

Let me explain my point a little more here. These individuals are engaged in a contest of wills, and an attempt to demonstrate to the American people their ability to lead the most powerful nation on earth. EVERYTHING they do is open to scrutiny, and rife with hidden meaning.

By serving the men at that table Bachmann may have been doing something both kind, and completely in character for her, but it was NOT Presidential. And since Bachmann is also a female, and is the sole representative of women in this contest, it is not only NOT Presidential it is also an insult to all of the women who worked so very hard to prove themselves an equal to men, in the work place, in their communities, and in politics.

Just try to imagine Hillary Clinton doing something similar.

Can't do it can you?

And if you want to really understand my point imagine if Herman Cain suddenly whipped out a shoeshine box and started applying a spit shine to Rick Perry's boots.

Now as I explained, THIS is my gut reaction to seeing the video, you are of course free to disagree.  But if you DO disagree tell my WHY I am wrong and resist the urge to simply call me a misogynist pig followed by a bunch of exclamation points. That does not really further the discourse.