I’m buying beans

Yeah, pretty much.  I’m buying beans.  And rice.  And ramen.  And I think I’ll pull out that sewing machine and finally learn to use it.  I’m not kidding.  I’m freaking out.
The market fell an astounding 678.91 points today, putting us down about 40% from where we were this time LAST YEAR.  We dropped over 7% [...]

VP Debate, By the Numbers

So who won?  Let the numbers speak:
CBS Poll:  473 uncommitted voters:  Biden won 46% – 21%
CNN shows Biden winning 51% – 36%
MSNBC.com currently (6:08 am CT) has Biden up 51% – 38% with 600,359 people voting.  No this *not* scientific, but is representative of politically involved ‘net users.
All three poll numbers essentially mimic each other.  [...]

Glad I’m not the only one who noticed

From the, “Glad I’m not the only one who noticed” department, we have this from Christopher Beam at Slate this morning:
… Palin demonstrated a knack for answering the question she wanted to answer—not the one that was asked. At one point, Ifill asked Palin to respond to a comment by Sen. Biden on health care. “I [...]

Pat Buchanan is such an idiot

Pat Buchanan has just said that Sarah Palin was the most “interesting and attractive” of all four debaters we’ve seen so far.  “Attractive,” Pat?  That’s rich.
Pat says she was “riveting.”  I found her deeply annoying with her insistence on not answering the questions and, instead, regurgitating the information that’s been fed into her over the last [...]

There’s a lot of hot air this morning

There’s a lot of hot air this morning about the VP debate tonight.  Everyone’s prognosticating and most of it, frankly, makes me yawn and roll my eyes.  I’ve found one piece, though, that I think is actually worth a read.  Check out Brad Listi over at HuffPo with Biden vs. Palin: A Preface to Live-Blogging [...]

Quote of the night

James Moore, author of Bush’s Brain, on Olbermann tonight, speaking of the VP debate, said that Biden should not worry about pussy footing around Palin, as some have suggested, but should, instead:
… beat her about her diminutive brain.
Classic.

The morning after

Here are some of my favorite / some of the most interesting things from around the web this morning after the debate:
1.  An MSNBC poll shows that Obama won the debate, 52% to 34% (as of the time that I voted).  What is really astounding to me about this poll is that, by the time [...]

Caging the pit bull after the prom

While the candidates for President (that would be McCain and Obama, in case you’ve been living under a boulder) easily agreed to a freewheeling format of question, answer, and open exchange for their three scheduled debates, the two camps had to go through some version of the Versailles Treaty (ok, maybe not *that* controversial) to get rules for the VP [...]