If we are what we eat, then I'm more likely oatmeal, pumpkin and various soups (at least in this winter season).

I don't seem to eat as much chocolate as I used to, maybe because I just (or, mostly) eat the good stuff. Green & Blacks.

Yes, I have heard and said: "I love you so much I could eat you up!" ...but mostly about babies. They appear tastier, don't you think?

"Why? That's so silly to eat a horse any day."

Have you read your granddaughter the book about the Old Lady Who Swallowed A Fly? I used to make my grandson sing the song with me in the car when he was younger.

The last part is...

There was an old lady who swallowed a cow.
I don't know how she swallowed a cow!
She swallowed the cow to catch the goat...
She swallowed the goat to catch the dog...
She swallowed the dog to catch the cat...
She swallowed the cat to catch the bird ...
She swallowed the bird to catch the spider
That wriggled and jiggled and wiggled inside her.
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly.
But I dunno why she swallowed that fly... perhaps she'll die.

There was an old lady who swallowed a horse -
She died, of course.

http://www.niemanwatchdog.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=background.view&backgroundid=193

a sample:

There were many ways in which Stone distinguished himself from his more conventional colleagues. He wasn't a slave to access. He adored burrowing into original documents. He didn't hesitate to call a lie a lie. And he was relentless. Those characteristics seem to be in short supply among today's media elite — as the trial of former vice presidential aide Scooter Libby (and its coverage) illustrated so clearly. Instead, it's the bloggers who have taken up Stone's mantle.

One place to start might be with Bill Moyers... or maybe he's already working on it.

I recall a show sometime ago, when he had Bob Barr on re: attacks against our civil liberties.

Bob Barr is not still in public office, but as a conservative, he could possibly bring in some of those votes.

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Any chance of Glenn getting on the Daily Show? That would be something.

The Denver Post has a story on deployment of injured soldiers.

http://www.denverpost.com/ci_7991922

Would you want to put them up for sale on a website and raise some money for something?

Free associating individuals and words

This is one of those times when a link would be appreciated rather than the whole treatise. Really. -- bystander

Please... how about a little mercy? Oops, sorry, I forgot...

I posted something about I.F. Stone being the first "blogger," according to something Dan Froomkin had written elsewhere.

I thought the commie remark was meant to be sarcastic, too, but didn't follow up on it. There weren't any other follow-ups, though, so I doubt anyone checked out the link, which was pretty interesting.

Except for one sister, my siblings are all pretty hard-core Republicans. I'm the black sheep who left home and never moved back... I don't discuss politics with them, because we get along better that way, but my other sister did send me a copy of an email re: Obama and his being a muslim. I did respond to that, pretty much quashing the whole thing. She responded more meekly. I'm the oldest, and the whole birth order thing is an issue, too.

My daughter is a more interesting test case, because for a while it was hard to talk about politics with her, because she couldn't bear it at the time, and she thought I'd gone over the deep-end, but recently we were discussing some of the issues and she told me more or less where she stood right now:

She prefers Edwards at the moment (but had good things to say about Dodd);

would probably be willing to vote for Obama, but for the moment, at least, not for Hillary (I'll have to work on that, since we still want a Democrat in the WH);

and she thought McCain was really a sad case, in particular because he had caved on the torture issue. That really got to her.

So, apparently she's been spending some time online herself, and she also watches Olbermann pretty regularly.

My friends are mostly pretty liberal, and I work in an academic environment, so I don't have a lot of interactions (discussing politics anyway) with more conservative types-- except online. But, one of my coworkers is more conservative, and I got him to pay attention to Dodd during one of the debates, and he agreed that he was a good candidate.

Still, most of my friends do not have as much time to spend online keeping up. Most of them still have kids at home, etc., and that can really eat up your time. They had children later; I didn't.