That was totally wrong of her not to give Dave the credit! So she just accumulated bad will throughout the competition and it came down on her. It was so cringe-making to see her try to be all back patting and buddy buddy with everybody and knowing that there was such a dearth of good will she couldn't even get mad at Steven & Dave for being drunk. You could tell she really wanted to.

Oddly, I think Bush senior is turning out to be a decent ex-president. Certainly he's a better ex-president than he was a president (duh).

You know though, Bush the lesser is making Bush the senior look better and better.

I see a law has been passed to prevent protests at soldier's funerals from Fred Phelps, the least favorite son of my hometown Topeka.

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Honda using brainwaves to control robot

Also,

A blob-like creature is invading Long Island Sound and posing a threat to its lobsters and other shellfish, University of Connecticut scientists say.

The researchers say they have found colonies of invasive sea squirts, blob-shaped animals that reproduce easily, on the floor of the sound.

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I wonder if Steve and Dave would have walked out had she said anything to them about coming in drunk.

Speaking of radiation, I saw a show where people were actually using a geiger counter to help look for ghosts. While I can't imagine why anyone would think ghosts would give off alpha and beta particles (not helped by the fact that I don't believe in ghosts), the idea of radioactive ghosts is somehow amusing.

the idea of radioactive ghosts is somehow amusing.

Or, if one were, say, either Clovis or MM, desperately intriguing.

I'm guess the show is either Supernatural or Ghost Hunters.

Although the device they use on Supernatural is supposedly measuring something else.

Top Chef: Were they actually drunk, or just hung over? I thought the latter. Regardless, they still cooked good food. I do kind of love that the two dishes most highly praised were actually Dave's and Miguel's, because the two of them were such overall fuckups -- it showed me that the bumbling and mistakes were more or less anomolies.

I was unsuprised, but still happy that Harold won. Yay Harold!

You're right sumi, it's Ghost Hunters. My wife is addicted to it, and is generally into Ghost stuff. I find the show oddly interesting, but the Geiger counter thing is a bit too much.

I think Carter might have been too good of a person to make an effective president. I think, as much as I'd like that it were otherwise, someone who makes an effective president has to be a bit of a ruthless bastard.

I agree, except for the last bit. I don't know if you need more of a ruthless bastard, but the office does seem to need someone inspiring.

I love Jimmy Carter. He is, in my opinion, the best human to have sat in the Oval Office in my lifetime (which started during LBJ's tenure). I'd love it if Carter would be a chief influence on a charismatic Democratic President. Sadly, "charismatic" and "Democrat" have seemed to be an either/or choice as often as not, for the last couple of elections.

I don't think it was the media/Republicans labeling Carter as 'liberal' that gave Regan his opening. I think Jimmy left a lot of Americans feeling deflated. He didn't know how to use the bully pulpit, and Regan, for all his faults, could work it as well as Clinton.

You know though, Bush the lesser is making Bush the senior look better and better.

Mmmm. I mostly agree, but not entirely.

His duo act with Clinton has been fascinating to watch, though.

Yes. This shows way more class than I'd credited Bush Sr. with.

I think it shows a lot of class on Clinton's part. It was H.W.'s machine that worked so very hard to completely discredit Clinton. Sadly, he gave them the fodder. In my world, Clinton's still President, and the Bushes have all retired. Possibly on Guam.

I see a law has been passed to prevent protests at soldier's funerals from Fred Phelps, the least favorite son of my hometown Topeka.

Good. The hate mongering just...oof. I've been more political in this post than I intended to be until 2008. Never mind. Just. I wish they could muzzle Phelps, completely. Free Speech for everyone but YOU, Phelps.