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• Quote of the day...

  SadlyNo! commenting on the purge of Newt Gingrich by teabaggers,
  
  It’d be like hippies booting Wavy Gravy out of Woodstock for being insufficiently gr000oo0vy. [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 6:24pm EST
  

• My Halloween

  
  Well it was as epic as I had hoped and then some. Here is how Rolling Stone described it,
  
  Under pristine conditions at the Empire Polo Field and in front of a devoted Phish crowd of 40,000 fans, the Vermont foursome rollicked [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 4:53pm EST
  

• Ditching the JJ dinners...

  Yglesias touches on something that I've long advocated - renaming the Jefferson-Jackson Democratic Party dinners,
  
  Wouldn’t it make sense to change the name of these annual dinners on a permanent basis? The policies of Andrew Jackson’s administration—opposition to central banking, Indian removal, slavery, etc.—have very little to' [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 3:30pm EST
  

• The flu season has landed at Case Del Balboni

  Flew home from a great vacation in Southern California on Monday evening and have been in bed ever since. Ugh. [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 1:11pm EST