Matt, Bones is worth it because

I thought the same thing, Sue! Especially because of the pink socks and white shoes.

Oh man, and the hipster fedora! I was expecting someone to ask him where Sammy and Dino were.

I do think DB needs to get a sharper razor for shaving—these days he always has a little stubble on his upper lip that really looks more like dirt than 5 o'clock shadow. Either clean-shaven or a more extensive scruffy three-day growth would look a lot better on him.

Oh come on! I loved DB's faux gangster look. It was fun.

I thought that Top Chef's elimination challenge was also great. But I'm not sure how I feel about the no actual elimination. Did nobody suck enough? Or did they all suck equally? And maybe they just didn't want to toss out the woman who won two elimination challenges in a row for cheating. . . which she clearly did. Did you guys wonder why her teammates didn't pull her up from changing her recipe? So that they could blame her should they have wound up on the chopping block ?

I'm not sure they actually realized what she'd done. Marcel was clearly worried the night before about whether they'd turn out, but I didn't see them noticing what she did the next day.

I do think that the whole point of bringing two teams back was so they could avoid knifing (thanks, TWoP!) one of the three on the meatball team.

Which, frankly, would have lost regardless of what anyone else was doing.

That said, I do think not cutting anyone was probably the best call. I'm just surprised they didn't think about supervising the cooking in the first place.

OK, my neo!con coworker may cause me to commit bodily harm against her..... oh, and she just invoked Nazis, so her argument just became null and void. How comforting.

It's starting to verge on workplace harassment. And I don't want either of us to lose our jobs, I just want her to stop being so dumb adamant about her views.

Gronk.

Ah. I just had the weirdest dream. The Democrats won back both houses of Congress. Weird, huh? Where does my subconscious come up with this stuff?

I love the sight of whitefont in the morning.

Ailleann, would she abide by your asking that the two of you not talk politics? Or is it more gerneral than that? As in, she talks about it to everyone and often?

I try to avoid discussing politics with her as much as possible. She's frustrated because America's taking its country back so many Dems won, and we'll all have high taxes and be praying to Allah in five years.

She also likes to listen to Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh every. day. Which normally I tune out pretty well, as her area is far enough away that I can't hear it, but they're also being vociferous about the fact that they might be found out as asinine blowhards the Republican losses.

Very pretty picture of the Orion Nebula: [link]

Huh. I wonder how much the rent is there....

Now that's what I'm talking about....

Republicans' Angry Factions Point Fingers At Each Other

After minutes upon minutes of soul-searching, Republicans are now in recrimination mode. And the GOP's various factions all agree: This wouldn't have happened if the party had listened to us.

In the aftermath of the historic GOP losses Tuesday night, moderate Republicans quickly concluded that the party needs to be more moderate. Conservative Republicans declared that it should be more conservative. Main Street is angry at Wall Street, theo-cons are angry at neo-cons, and almost everyone is angry at President Bush and the GOP congressional leadership.

The party purges formally began yesterday, as Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) agreed to step down before they were pushed. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) had already decided to leave Congress, but GOP insiders said Tuesday's debacle should eliminate him from presidential contention in 2008.

By day's end, Republican fingers had pointed at every conceivable Republican scapegoat: ex-representative Mark Foley of Florida and his scandal-plagued colleagues, Republican National Committee Chairman Ken Mehlman, presidential adviser Karl Rove, even Sen. John McCain of Arizona.

::pops popcorn, settles down in comfy chair to watch::