Many interesting comments in this thread, one of which I want to highlight. From Dario: Wife test.  The nonpartisan, I don’t pay attention to politics spouse.  She watched a grand total of 10 to 15 minutes and started to complain that Survivor was delayed.  She went upstairs to watch a Tivo’d ER. Her impressions are: Bush isn’t a very good debater.  Kerry seemed prepared.  Ten minutes later after she was

A picture’s worth a 1000 [rehearsed, carefully scripted, purposely misleading] words…

Senator Kerry will be having the cedar-smoked salmon salad with toasted walnuts and Buffalo mozzarella; President Bush will have the pork chops. **** update: Allah has a round-up of verdicts.  My thoughts, sans metaphor: Kerry didn’t come across as condescending or egregiously blue bloodish (though we all know he is), and he was far more personable tonight than I’ve ever seen him.  For Bush’s part, he seemed annoyed at times—but

Yummy.  Yet another reason to support a policy of preemption… **** see also:  LGF

…Ever notice grapes?—how they pop like little eyeballs when you and a few of your hooker friends climb a mountain of them in your bare feet…?

”Car bombs kill 34 children in Baghdad”: Insurgents have detonated three car bombs near a U.S. military convoy in Baghdad, killing 41 people, 34 of them children, and wounding scores. In two other attacks, a suicide bomber blew up his vehicle near a U.S. checkpoint outside the capital, killing two policemen and a U.S. soldier, and a car bomb killed four people in the restive northern Iraq town of Tal

THK: “Whenever possible, use the word ‘smite.’ ‘Smite’ is so wonderfully biblical. And people who live near corn fields love Jesus.  Give them what they want, I say.  The pathetic, filthy rubes.”

INDC Journal snags a three-part interview with the movers behind CBS News’ controversial Draft reinstatement piece, which aired Tuesday evening and was subsequently cited by several commenters as an example of CBS’s penchant for advocacy journalism. Bill’s interview is eminently fair (at times too fair, perhaps), but it does manage to expose an institutionalized bias among certain factions of the mainstream media establisment—a bias that may or may not be