They chose a black woman for moderator! Smart. Step on everyone's weirdnesses. I love this election.

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Admit it: for the last 8 years you've been wondering, What's going on? Isn't that smart, feisty, articulate Jed Bartlet supposed to be our real president? I have friends who are in complete denial and after the Republican convention simply locked themselves up with all 5 seasons of West Wing and refused to come out ( Read more... )

Dear American:

I need to ask you to support an urgent secret business relationship with a transfer of funds of great magnitude. I am Ministry of the Treasury of the Republic of America. ( Read more... )

Some good things friends have posted:

Letter to Palin from NYC
She's a Lumberjack . . . .
Kris misses her Mama and leads us to the scintillating passion of Anne Lamott.

There's more, but I can't find it right now. I loved all your comments to my previous Palin post, and cherish p_zeitgeist's referring to her as "the Evita of the North ( Read more... )

In the face of global poverty, sickness and general lousy politics, it can be hard for some of us here in the U.S. to rationalize giving our carefully-budgeted charitable donations to arts organizations. Art doesn't save lives, does it ( Read more... )