Have we discussed the New York gubernatorial debate here? Specifically, The Rent Is Too Damn High?

Have you been to his web page? He has an AWESOME SONG (that plays automatically).

OK, this wonkette thing is funny:

Christine O’Donnell Shocks Delaware By Not Knowing First Amendment

Christine O’Donnell (R-DE) believes her participation in an eight-day conservative think tank fellowship is the “number one” thing qualifying her for service in the U.S. Senate. O’Donnell says the “deep analysis of the constitution” taught at Claremont Institute’s competitive Lincoln Fellowship program would help her make sound decisions in the Senate

For some reason, in spite of this she didn't know what was in the First Amendment.

When Coons responded that the First Amendment bars Congress from making laws respecting the establishment of religion, O’Donnell asked: “You’re telling me that’s in the First Amendment?”

Her comments, in a debate aired on radio station WDEL, generated a buzz in the audience.

“You actually audibly heard the crowd gasp,” Widener University political scientist Wesley Leckrone said after the debate, adding that it raised questions about O’Donnell’s grasp of the Constitution.

I'm going to miss Christine O’Donnell after she loses....

When Coons responded that the First Amendment bars Congress from making laws respecting the establishment of religion, O’Donnell asked: “You’re telling me that’s in the First Amendment?”

Oh, as usual, dear.

I sometimes think that there should be some sort of test that qualifies people to run for office - you know, just to make sure they actually know something about the job for which they are running - but then I LOL so hard at the really clueless ones that I change my mind.

It came back for me.

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As one of the commenters note: If every kiss begins with Kay, this is the natural progression. Language is dirty within, pictures safe. Technically.

Jessica, I am not discounting that study, but I will say it's just one study. In the course of my teaching I've at least skimmed 20 or 30 articles on caffeine, maybe more, and the preponderance of the evidence is that it improves performance. Not as much as some Rx drugs do, it's true, but coffee has the advantage of being widely available OTC.

Lifehacker on ditching cable for the web.

Hmph. Still doesn't explain how I'm going to get HD-cable picture quality off the internet.

(Also, my cable provider is also my ISP. So even if I drop my cable TV, the only way I could drop Cablevision is by moving to a neighborhood with FiOS.)

I love coffee and have a travel mug (=2 cups) of it every morning. Yum. I don't know if it does anything for alterness, but the taste makes me happy and the smell perks me up.

I am also hating your doctor, ita. I did the same thing with trazadone a month ago, and I HATED it. I got little to no sleep on it, the sleep I got was rotten, and I staggered around like a drunk the next day, was off balance, felt stupid. And it wasn't the shitty sleep; it was the drug. I know me some sleep-dep feeling. It was horrid.

And any sleep doc should know that there's no way to stock up on sleep.

I drink one cup of cappucino when I wake up. I used to drink tons of coffee, but I've been a one cupper for about 5 years now -- maybe another cup on really tired days, but abso never after noon.