Apparently, some of the Dem candidates have decided that a great way to celebrate tonight’s HISTORIC YouTube debate would be to… have more of it! Edwards and Dodd will be having their own personal bonus rounds after the debate is over. “Over” if you mean, “no longer have other people participating.” Though, really, it’s not like this …

Despite/because of my doubts that the CNN/YouTube debate will be quite the historic event it’s being hyped as, I will be live-blogging it. Meta, huh?

Here’s some more meta for your morning:

I am now firmly on the record as being in favor of “hot babes.” But I do think my favorite part of the video was Glenn Reynolds talking placidly …

Just got off a conference call with a “senior administration official” about the President’s signing of an executive order related to the 2006 Military Commissions Act. The good news: We don’t torture! The bad news: As to what torture is, as to how violators will be punished, as to whether or not torture ever took place, well, you’ll …

Eric Edelman’s background is confusing. In addition to having served Cheney, both in this administration and when Cheney was SecDef under Bush 41, Edelman for a long time worked for — get this — Bill Clinton’s old friend and former Oxford roommate Strobe Talbott, when Talbott was deputy secretary of state. (Currently the president of …

Okay, there are really too many easy jokes to make about this:

President Bush will undergo a routine colonoscopy Saturday and temporarily hand presidential powers over to Vice President Dick Cheney, the White House said.

But I think funniest-because-it’s-truest is this: “temporarily”! HAHAHAHAHHAAH!

[Wipes eyes, straightens …

I’m not sure who wins in this one:

NEW YORK – Former President Clinton spoke out on behalf of his wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton, after Elizabeth Edwards criticized the Democratic front-runner for not being a strong advocate for women.
“If you look at the record on women’s issues, I defy you to find anybody who has run for office in

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So last night I stopped by a book party for Kristin Gore, who has written a second novel. The party was thrown by her parents. A lot of old Gore hands were there. I know, of course, that by attending a book party in Washington, and one thrown by a (former) politician to boot, I have reinforced all the stereotypes out there about how …

Endearing himself further to the Volvo-driving, latte-sipping, NPR-listening liberal left (guilty on counts myself), Patrick Fitzgerald last night participated in the public radio quiz show “Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me.”

When asked by host Peter Sagal why such a tight-lipped public official would come on the show, Fitzgerald said,

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The phrase takes on new meaning with this morning’s Washington Post report that the Administration will “never” allow the Justice Department to pursue contempt charges initiated by Congress against White House officials, once the President has invoked executive privilege. Statutory contempt proceedings are Congress’ trump card in …

Here is the “fundamentalist-pagan-commie-Islamofasctist-Feminazi” bear (as mentioned by our commenters) that will teach our children about “bad” and “secret” touching.

The Stick, on the other hand, would NEVER lead us astray. Oh, wait…

UPDATE: This is what “Kelly Bear” has in store for our sweet innocents:

Kelly Bear Teaches

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