sweetheart-mine

and there are so many of those. can't they wear signs around their necks or something?

damn. one of my favorite people . . .

maybe "impossible germany" -- colbert is one of the few shows where they could get away with using that much time.

would you lend this kid out now and then? he is way funnier than our cats. i love this story and it has to be my favorite all year on v.c., bar none. we've been laughing for three hours over here!

ever hear of context? more important, the sky is pink, the grass is gold, and the phillies won. music, art, and my husband are calling me. you have yourself a beautiful rest of the year.

it is a good thing i'm not running the campaign because i'd hate it, but if i were, advising obama to smear mccain "for his own firsthand participation in a mistaken war of aggression" wouldn't be on my to-do list. duh.

right. it still seems false to me because obama's connection to ayers is so extremely slight and mccain's connection to his own very substantial military experience is, well, as heavy as a connection can get. yet mccain smears obama by trying to connect him to terrorism via ayers, whereas obama refrains from smearing mccain for his own firsthand participation in a mistaken war of aggression (in fact he stupidly praises him for it) and for his later connections to unsavory characters such as liddy and the keating gang. too many differences for me to see a parallel of any significance whats

oh come on. i initially said (to someone else) that ayers was irrelevant, and out of the blue you asked if i was serious. about taking it personally: not at all. i do get annoyed when someone seems to be giving me a hard time for no reason, but disagree on the issues all you want. i get many laughs every day reading these boards; if i didn't, i wouldn't be here.

joe the plumber is probably going to have one of the biggest cases of post-election letdown in the country. his peak and fall are pretty short and steep.

i have no idea what you're trying to say nor what your problem with me is.

i think you know that obama was 8 years old when ayers was doing his thing, and that his association with him 30-35 years later has been minimal at best and has had nothing to do with terrorism domestic or otherwise. i'd be more concerned about mccain and his liddy and keating associations, and even more concerned about the palins' more recent pallin' around with the america-hating alaskan secessionists. does obama go about harping on or even mentioning those associations?

why wouldn't i be? mccain is running for president. ayers isn't. what mccain has done with his life is relevant to the election. what ayers has done with his life isn't.

mccain is running for president. ayers isn't. but you see how mccain gets to certain people by encouraging them to draw false parallels, as your post did.

excellent point. i've come to believe he'd be a disaster as president, but he might make a great congressional rep or senator. nearly his whole career has been about legislation in one form or another.

good luck.

not fair. i love pringles.

i bet he was . . . ? i was there but too far away to hear this, what must have been denver's finest moment. thank you so much for posting this. i never did get to really hear it until just now. where is my kleenex.

i'm with ya 100%. it's the sickest campaign i've ever seen, and i've seen many. last night the guy at the end of rachel maddow's show had a list of how to handle "election stress." wish i'd written them down. all i remember are the first and the last: 1. stay away from the computer, the tv, and the newspaper. 5. change the subject and go camping.

there isn't one in my town, but we're just south of portland and there's portland head light in the city, and between here and there is Two Lights in cape elizabeth -- two lighthouses close together, plus a lobster shack place to eat on a cliff over the sea. you and ms. viatroy should definitely come up sometime! if it's in the spring we can go to Two Lights and eat outside by the water. (it's closed now for the winter.) ms. viatroy's daughter has probably been there.

oh you're right! Big Red is in Holland. i've been there many times, as my husband grew up in Holland, but we've been to south haven a few times and gone to that lighthouse too, which must have mixed me up. that's a gorgeous pic you have.

hey, is that Big Red?

it's a good one! thanks for posting.

i love hendrik hertzberg. i'd go searching for him immediately if he weren't always already up front, where he belongs.

my town is tiny (about the size of wasilla!) and i'm waiting for election day to vote. i want to FEEL my vote. would vote early, though, if in a big town or city (or state, for that matter).

you think you'll be out of jail by then?