Read this and watch the video.

(Caution: Time waster.)

On September 13th, 2008, at the height of the Palin craze, Newsweek's Dahlia Lithwick postulated that John McCain should not "waste [the] talents" of Sarah Palin by nominating her as his running mate. Instead, Lithwick argues that she be nominated to the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court. Sarah Palin. On the Supreme Court.

It is now rumored that in her final interview segment with Katie Couric, which airs tomorrow night before the debate, Sarah Palin was asked to name an important Supreme Court case other than Roe vs. Wade and she could not. Could not name a single important Supreme Court case. Justice Palin who can't name a single important Supreme Court case, Dahlia Lithwick?

I wonder how many Beanie Babies Mr. Lithwick owns. Or maybe he thinks the next Chief Justice should be a Furby.

Seriously, folks. That we give immediate credence to hunting moose and are weary of editing the Harvard Law Review might begin to explain the situation our country is in today.

In 2008, Nate Silver is hot. This site is not.

Electoral-vote.com was great in 2004, but so was Keith Olbermann.

I spent my weekend in wonderful Huntsville, AL for Big Spring Jam. I was generally discontented with the lineup but my weekend was not without great art--

After traveling up and down the great bug sanctuary we call Interstate 65, my windshield looks something like this:




(Oh yeah? But can your 5 year old drive a car in a bug storm?)


Today has been very long. A stop in Birmingham last night turned a 6 hour trip into a 9 hour trip, so I arrived home in Mobile at 2 AM. Today I began training at my new job from 8-11AM, slept until 1:30PM, wrote a 3 page essay in a record 30 minutes and barely made it to class at 2:30.

In the news:
My kindred spirit, Maureen Dowd, wrote the best piece about the first debate.

And why didn't I know about this?

This sums up why I love Bill O'Reilly. Why he should not be vilified like Limbaugh. Duh, he's a little right of center-right, somewhat of a simpleton, easy to caricature, but he's incredibly entertaining and often sensible.

It just keeps getting scarier and scarier.

You want an executive on your ticket? Fine. You want a woman? Fine. But seriously, if the best cross-section of these criterions in the GOP right now is the intellectual equivalent of Miss Teen South Carolina, you probably want to hold onto that card until a better possibility is done growing in your grand old culture.

Or am I missing the point? What if all these questions about the physical world are just soooo typical of liberal journalists? Perhaps Sarah Palin is ready for a different kind of threat. It would need to be something more mystical.

Say... Witches?

Funnay funnay.

This is something I don't understand.



Old men in suits. Watching younger, scantily clad mens wrestle. It reminds me of a club in New Orleans.

All I'm saying is that if the "ultimate fighters" created a social networking site where they posted their pictures and activities it might look a little something like this.

What is most surprising about this election cycle?
A) Sarah Palin
B) David Gregory has a show?
C) Clay Aiken is gay
D) Maria Bartiromo looks good in Alaska

I completely agree with Canoli. Twitter does suck. Ben Smith makes so many references to it that I had to check it out. And unless I'm missing something it seems to be little more than a site to post Facebook status updates... ?
If we're going to outsource a Facebook function, couldn't it have been those Lil Green Patch requests?

Putting a gayfer as hot as Preston Lee on a Bravo TV show is clearly a marketing ploy.


And I have to confess that I'm falling for it. And him.

An introduction

Greetins, blogosphere. Wiki tells me I'm number 112,000,001!

(I'm late for everything.)