I'm not sure why Giuliani thinks he has foreign policy experience. Among other things.

I dunno, maybe you're getting the questions because you've made being more Christian (whatever that really means) that everybody else in the race a central theme of your campaign.

I think it was Charlie Pierce on Wait Wait Don't Tell Me a couple of weeks ago who was hilarious about the "controversy" about there maybe being a cross in Huckabee's "Merry Christmas" ad? He was like, "Huckabee is telling everyone to have an extra Jesus-y Christ-mas, and people are concerned about a possibly hidden cross???"

I think she is just following what Fox News tells her. The thing is, she is actually a really independent thinker, so I could probably convince her he is an autocratic troll if I had, you know, actual facts. But I tend to do things based on feelings, not facts, and I tend to not pay attention to the Republican candidates because I just get angry.

I've been fiddling around with glassbooth.org all morning. It's not telling me anything I don't already know (Kucinich is my best political match, the Big Three on the left all vote the same way all the time), but it's a really well put-together site.

He was like, "Huckabee is telling everyone to have an extra Jesus-y Christ-mas, and people are concerned about a possibly hidden cross???"

Yeah I saw and article about that and I thought it smelled of the media manufacturing a controversy. I mean who cares? It's like watching a beer commercial and seeing a beer in the background.

Happy Birthday, ita.

I didn't feel strongly one way or another about Giuliani until I heard the NYers here talk about him. After that I read more about him, but if it weren't for the NYers here, I know I would feel more positively towards him.

The weather here is totally depressing, and wet, and I really don't want to go to work.

I'm not sure why Giuliani thinks he has foreign policy experience.

Dude, 9/11! He was totally on TV making us feel better for about ten minutes! HE'S THE ONLY ONE WHO CAN PROTECT US FROM TEH EEEEEEEEEVIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIL!!!!!

you know, if by "protect us from teh eeeeeeeeeeeeevilllllllllllllllllll" you mean build his sooper secret headquarters in the last place they attacked

Love matress.

Has a series of slots for feet, elbows, etc.

xkcd addressed this a while ago.

This is totally off the political topic, but I have a survey kind of question as I am trying to improve my organizational skills at my job-

My boss sends me 8 kabillion FYI emails (she copies me in on people she is talking to in case they call or contact me). My work email has fairly limited storage. Somehow just reading these emails once is not enough for me to remember everything, however, if someone calls I can't really be leafing through a great big file of printed out emails so I know what they are talking about. Does anyone have any hints as to what to do with this information so I can either memorize it or have it fairly handy?

There's a great quote (from a woman I used to work with, who is AWESOME) in the recent New Yorker profile, where she says Rudy was surrounded by such yes-men in City Hall that if he said, "Let's kill thirteen-year-olds," someone at the table would be, "Great idea! And have you thought about killing twelve-year-olds?"