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It’s an old meme, but tonight an especially tempting one. Asked yesterday about what words I’d choose for Palin, I went with “you know” (seriously, girl, find a new filler word) and, of course, “media”:

What words would our commenters claim in the quest to get seriously sloshed?

Me and Maddow, together again:

I know I’m late getting to this:

The Palin aide, after first noting how “infuriating” it was for CBS to purportedly leak word about the gaffe, revealed that it came in response to a question about Supreme Court decisions.

After noting Roe vs. Wade, Palin was apparently unable to discuss any major court cases.

There was no verbal

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If I were on the Obama campaign, I’d be more concerned about the sensitivities of our seasoned citizens voters if I didn’t hear so many jokes about McCain’s age from, you know, McCain.

Madame Speaker’s incredibly offensive floor speech. NSFW!!!

I’ve been keeping a list of silver linings to come out of this credit crisis mess. So far, it’s a short list:

• Increased use of the dirty-sounding word “tranche”

• Barney Frank

The first point obviously speaks for itself. And while he’s still on a roll today (as MS shows), I’ll let point number two do the same in this clip, from

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If you’re tired of watching the stock market plunge, how about some poll numbers? Pollster.com debuted a suite of sweet charting tools today, just in time for your faith in democracy to crumble! Yay!

You can play with a number of factors, including choosing to exclude certain kinds of polls (internet, automated) or to make the trend …

I guess the consensus is that McCain is making a not very smart bet with this $700B move. I’ll just note that, whatever else it is, his decision to “suspend” his campaign and rush to the sort of rescue is a genuine reflection of McCain’s temperament and as good an indicator as any of what kind of president he’d be: impulsive, active, …

• The economic crisis hurts us all. [Cute Overload]

• “There are many, many places in the world not to get lost. And many people not to be when you are there. And many cunning plans to escape. In Abu Ghraib (Yes, that Abu Ghraib). An American contractor. Flagging down passing cars and asking for directions. These are things not to

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Cranking the dial around this morning, I heard someone encourage me to “vote for McCain…570.” Turns out two stations in town have changed their names in order to capitalize on interest in the election:

Red Zebra flips recently acquired News/Talk WTNT-AM/Washington, DC, to Political Talk as “McCain 570 WTNT,” while sister Liberal Talk

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cgy1 comments on my last post:

You do know that Sen. McCain’s female staffers in the Senate, on average, make more than his male staffers, and that McCain’s female staffers make more, on average, than Obama’s female staffers right? Just because McCain doesn’t agree with using federal law to legislate equal pay doesn’t mean he doesn’t

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A depressing study written up in the Washington Post today that shows men with “traditional attitudes” towards women earn more than men with “egalitarian” views. And while women as a group earn less than either, women with egalitarian attitudes toward, er, themselves earn more women with traditional views.

The study used information …

This was actually really fun. NOTE: THERE WAS NO MAKE-UP ON MY END.* Just pointing that out.

*Or my face, either. Ha ha.