In my other news, thanks Steph! I got your sodamixes for my penguin today! They are awesome.

Excellent! I hope they're useable and tasty.

I am so sorry for your loss, Suela.

But even more disgusting is the sermon delivered at her church earlier this month by the head of Jews for Jesus,

I read this as SEMEN, and I was skimming, so I missed the rest of the paragraph. I was so confused!

I find Gossip Girl funny at times, but a lot of it is the costumes and just the general OTTness, not the funnyness like the OC. However, I think that Serena is a vast improvement on OC's Marissa, and probably what they were going for with her and did not get.

Sorry to hear about the loss, Consuela-- someone like that, one of the Good People, hits especially hard, especially for his family.

Am I an anomaly of my generation that I never watched the original 90210 and have yet to watch any Dawson's, GG, One Tree Hill, and only fragments of The OC (when Logan Marshall-Green was on as Trey Atwood-- research, dontcha know?). I will also admit to an odd fascination with Ed Westwick-- he's such an unusually attractive boy.

::sits back and waits for Bones to premiere tonight::

Having watched extensive (aka all of) 90210, Dawson's, and The OC, I can happily say that only S1 OC and some of the final season approached honest to goodness goodness, but that's not really the point.

I agree with ita, although I have to add that Josh Jackson and Michelle Williams also approached actual goodness, even when the show was crap, on Dawson's. Josh Jackson deserved to be a Big Damn Star.

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Am I an anomaly of my generation that I never watched the original 90210 and have yet to watch any Dawson's, GG, One Tree Hill, and only fragments of The OC

These are unknown to me too. And yet I read the whitefont. In general there are many shows where I enjoy the Buffista commentary more than the actual show. Saves a lot of time and heartache.

A male VP candidate with a 4 month old Downs baby and a 17 year old pregnant daughter would NOT cause the same stir.

Honestly, it would with me. Parenting 5 children including a special needs baby and a pregnant teen is more than a full time job for both parents. Leader of the land is also a more than full time job. I'm not saying a parent with so much on their plate couldn't do the job, but there sure as hell are a large number of people that could do it better that don't have the family obligations. But, what do family values have to do with it anyway, right? Do politicians claim to have those?

There is no choice that McCain could have made that would have secured him my vote, but there are many that I would have considered an excellent choice. Palin was not.

ION, as of 5:40 this morning I am a great aunt, again. Savannah Miller weighing in at 8lb 5oz. That was the info provided by her great grandma via email. Yay babies!

I am so tired of Sarah Palin already. I think it's news embargo time.

Yay babies!

I know Evan Bayh stepped back when people were starting to talk about him running for president because he had twin babies and wanted to spend more time with them, so it's not unheard of for a man to make political decisions based on family situations.

Just hearing here that the Palin kids didn't know until they arrived in Ohio...? I am nearly sputtering with outrage as to what that says about family dynamics. Yet more evidence that McCain's choice was last-minute and ill-conceived in every way.

Listen, the guy has had at least 24 months to consider his VP choice, and since he clinched the nomination many months ago, a hell of a long run-up to interview possible candidates. And yet, it's clear that Palin was a sudden decision, hardly vetted at all (hell, YES, the vetters should have interviewed all the kids except for the infant), chosen because it will placate possible voters and satisfy the RNC cabal, not because she would in any way continue McCain's political opinion should he (more likely than average) die or become incapacitated in office.