Huh. Here's an advantage to being a four-dimensional being that never occurred to me:

SF writers make up monsters for a kids' writing program

The Hyperman exists in four spatial dimensions. When it protrudes into ours, you see it as a series of slices (imagine that you are sticking your face through a sheet of paper, being observed by a two-dimensional flat person drawn on the page) -- the tip of the nose, the bridge, the face, the head, the back of the head.

The Hyperman can go from anywhere to anywhere by taking strides through four-space. If it brings a three-dimensional object, say, a book, into the fourth dimension and rotates it on the 4D axis, it comes back into three-space with all the type backwards. If it does this with a piece of cake, it comes back with all its sugars reversed, so that you can eat it without gaining weight (but you might get explosive diarrhea).

I'm going to quote Sullivan ranting about Palin because I love the phrase "media-ideological-industrial complex"...

Look: what we have seen this past year is the collapse of the RNC as it once was and the emergence of a highly lucrative media-ideological-industrial complex. This complex has no interest in traditional journalistic vetting, skepticism, scrutiny of those in power, or asking the tough questions. It has no interest in governing a country. It has an interest in promoting personalities and ideologies and false images of a past America that both flatter and engage its audience. For most in this business, this is about money. Roger Ailes, who runs a news business, has been frank about what his fundamental criterion is for broadcasting: ratings not truth. Obviously all media has an eye on the bottom line - but in most news organizations, there is also an ethical editorial concern to get things right. I see no such inclination in Fox News or the hugely popular talkshow demagogues (Limbaugh, Levin, Beck et al.), which now effectively control the GOP. And when huge media organizations have no interest in any facts that cannot be deployed for a specific message, they are a political party in themselves.

"In Palinworld, Palin, By Definition, Speaks The Truth."

My grandma ate the same thing for lunch everyday as well -- a peanut butter sandwich with grape jelly and Campbell's soup. I got to half half of the Campbell's soup and a peanut butter and no jelly sandwich.

This Stuff on My Cat is cracking my up. The expressions on their faces!

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I could be pretty happy eating a burrito every day for lunch, but the long-term effects on my waistline and bank account would not be pretty.

I'm going to quote Sullivan ranting about Palin

I'm thinking Palin won't run in 2012, she's got an awfully good gig going on.

I'm thinking Palin won't run in 2012, she's got an awfully good gig going on.

Yeah, that seems to be the conventional wisdom.

I'm thinking Palin won't run in 2012, she's got an awfully good gig going on.

Oh, I could see her running for about 10 minutes, and then spending the next four years talking about how the media elites forced her out of the running. It would probably be worth an extra $75k per speaking gig.

Well I can certainly see her milking the speculation. I'm not sure who the GOP has for 2012. Right now my best guess would be Romney, but more for the weakness of the field than for the strength of Romney.

The deciding factor for the GOP's pick in 2012 is going to be how strong the conservative wing is. Right now, that wing has managed to push out more moderate candidates in so many states that they might have the ability to do so across the country. If they end up nominating a Huckabee or Gingrich instead of a Romney or other formerly-moderate-but-sucking-up-to-the-conservatives candidate, then it'll be an interesting referendum on how moderates are willing to vote.

It's interesting what's happening in Florida that Charlie Crist is thisclose to leaving the Republican Party and running for Senate as an independent.