Ingenious. I’ve never been much into arm wrestling — I have a fear of being tethered to another man by way of nylon straps — but that doesn’t mean I don’t want the strength of an accomplished arm wrestler. Problem partially solved.

This month: Almond Joy candy bar. If anyone needs me, I’ll be drawing a bath. Filled with coffee. And Almond Joy candy bar creamer. A half-dozen honey-glazed Safeway donuts will be playing the role of loofah.

Nuance!

I’ll believe it when I see it: House Speaker John Boehner (R., Ohio) will mark out a firm Republican position regarding the debt ceiling in his speech this evening at the Economic Club of New York (7 p.m., watch live here). He will insist that while allowing the country to default would be “irresponsible,” voting to raise the debt limit without spending cuts and reforms would be far worse in

Think we can make it 28? Yes we can!*

Let the Democrat/establishment GOP push for Mitch Daniels begin! Because hell, who, if not the Democrats, has our best interests at heart when it comes to picking a “serious” “adult” opponent to run against Barack Obama…?

Back during his presidential campaign, I wrote that Obama was Jimmy Carter with a tan. Such rhetorical Visigothery, at the time, made me unpopular with those who saw nothing but the crease in Obama’s pants and hadn’t yet realized the measures he’d gone to to hide Brother Billy in a Boston tenement. But the times, they are a changing: U-6 unemployment rose again to 15.9 percent, a total of 24.39

Enjoy the day, everyone! Here in Colorado, it’s sunny and 85, my son is running a low-grade fever, and my wife is on a plane, shuttling off on yet another business trip, because that’s what you do in this economy to keep your job. But at least I got to make her French toast on apple fritter bread before she left. Share your happy Visigoth stories from Obama’s America here!

Unless and until those who people the contemporary socialist movement revert to donning berets and going full-on khaki, or carrying little red books in their tiny utilitarian shirt pockets, or referring to themselves as numbers like a cadre of high-ranking SPECTRE villains, the nuanced pragmatic conservatives of the stripe who backed McCain and mocked the TEA Party at its birth wouldn’t recognize a Marxist if several of them clenched themselves

So, Jeff, what is the rule for limiting access to the stage? There has to be a “barrier to entry” or is it come one, come all? Yeah, that’ll beat the president. Were I to be glib, I’d start my answer by suggesting that one thing we shouldn’t be doing as a “barrier to entry” is, after the fact, calling for the “exile” from future debates of the man many