Everybody's all "SF liberal" but she's a hard hitting East Coast machine politics vet, Italian Catholic.

Baltimore press is all "Another Alessandro!" Seriously, she is EC machine and manipulation. She's SF liberal the way I'm east coast liberal. Which is to say, not. She has serious old school game, and I hope she uses it. Well, not the old school corruption part, anyway.

Is that really Bill Nye, the Science Guy on Numb3rs?!

Also, no, I really have no weekend life.

I think so -- I had heard a while back that he was going to guest. He's on faculty - maybe he will recur!

It is, and wow are his line deliveries flat.

Heh, I was just about to come ask who that guy was, because you could sort of tell he wasn't an actor. I wondered if he was a well-known science person.

Dude, his lines are ALWAY flat! He's the Science Guy!

Well, that's good, right? A little tough to go with the granola.(And that means she's chased away "Clay Davis" once or twice, which is good preparation for the new fights ahead.)ETA: I scare the hell out of the more hummus-eating, Kum-ba-yah liberals in my acquaintance, cause, you know, death is my gift. But we probably vote the same.

Fainting goats.

A herd of goat that, when startled, drop to the ground. Actually, it's some weird hereditary thing - their muscles completely tense up. Pretty funny.

(And, now Hec, I'm picturing NP as a young girl over her dad's notebook dotting all the i's with hearts and shit so he has to tell her to do it again. Because he can't talk to dockworkers with daisies in his notebook.) Because even I used to do that, believe it or not.

Heh. I'm picturing NP's dad taking the notebook with the hearts and daisies to the dockworkers and saying, "See what my little girl did? Isn't it cute? And now she knows all about our deal, and she'll be around for another 60 years. So don't think you're off the hook when I have my coronary, bub."