It isn't as much fun as it used to be, is it Joan? Airport shuttle hell, followed by airport security hell, followed by airplane cabin hell, and then baggage claim hell, then taxi to the hotel hell, then hotel hell itself. And back again. I'm soooo glad I'm not traveling for a living anymore.

Anyway here are my thoughts that I know you've been eager to read:

1. Hillary did not cry. So everybody who said she did cry is either willfully ignorant, or lying. Look, you know I'm not a Hillary fan, but to label her slightly choked up moment "The Crying Game" is wrong on any level. She was not even really "watery eyed" or "teary." Look at the video again. But it's going to stand as Hillary's weak moment because the media won't let go of it even though it never happened the way they said it did.

2. I think you are safe from worry that the incident known as Hillary's breakdown is going to set back your career as a professional woman Joan. It lasted 25 seconds at most. And if you want my advice, the first thing you have to do is quit giving a damn about what anybody thinks.

3. "Clintons' remarks on race this week." Hillary's gaff was a real foot-in-mouth moment, Bill's was not. But you and Chris Matthews are getting pretty chummy, calling each other friend and colleague like I've heard you both say. All I know is that you have good chemistry on the air and he either likes you and wants to please you, or he's scared of you, because he actually lets you talk without much interruption. You do have a way about you that is all business on the air.

4. If Rep. James Clyburn is smart, he'll bluster and blow with righteous indignation and then shut the hell up. He's gotten all the mileage out of this that he is going to get. Now it's starting to look like he wants some kind of quid pro quo and somebody to kiss his ring before he agrees to make nice, Rev. Jessie style.

5. Clinton going "Humbly, door to door." A Secret Service detail and about 100 reporters ten feet behind her is a new kind of humble. I wonder if she'll talk to the working girls out at the Mustang Ranch. They are always getting screwed by "The Man."

He's an attention troll trying to race bait.

Just don't respond.

a new "Operation Arc Light" just inside our border with Mexico. Every couple of weeks without any warning, B-52s could carpet bomb long strips of the border at night when the mojados and the coyotes are fixin' to cross over. 500 lb. HE air-bursting at 500 feet in tight clusters has a tendency to dampen the enthusiasm of those in the vicinity.

it was the rail lines leading to the camps.

Jesus H. Christ, crack a book now and then.

Get rid of the anonymous option, or severely limit it.

Good ol' happy the cowboy, ridin' tall and cuttin' them taxes like it was summer wheat.

Only Reagan wasn't such a hero to the corporatists back then. He raised their taxes significantly four times in his second term. Republicans all have amnesia about that.

In addition to that, Reagan was like the guy in the car pool who rips an SBD and then says, "I didn't do it!" It's true that Reagan did not send any tax increase bills to Congress, but what he did was let Congressional Republicans and Democrats slip tax hikes into budget bills and other legislation and then sign them when they came to his desk, wringing his hands like Pontius Pilate and whining, "If only those darn Democrats would give me the line item veto, I wouldn't have to do this."

And "there they go again." I think he was referring to another one of his furtive malodorous emissions of the tax variety.

Reagan managed to bury all of his sins until G.H.W. Bush came to power. Read my lips, the old CIA hack told everybody, no new taxes. Then the "Howdee Doodee Snake" raised taxes and lost the next election.

Clinton spent eight years restoring the federal deficit and then the son of the Howdee Doodee Snake, with the banner of Saint Ronald of Reagan held high, proceeded to waste not only what Clinton had managed to save, but drove us into the trillions in bad paper now held mostly by our good friends the goddamned Chinese Communists who now own your house, your car, and your children's income for the rest of their lives.

OK, all together now, take a deep breath and lets all start calling each other names. Where's Trasher? He can start.

Kerry? You're kidding, right?

Kerry is still in rehab from his shameful defeat brought about in part because he went limp in the saddle. What does his endorsement count for?

Seems to me that his support could only remind all voters of a very sour and confused time in recent political history.

Stay home John, please.