Wow, my wife and I are really on the edge of a trend, because we've already planned to relocate from California to Madison, Wisconsin this year. Of course, our friends look at us like we just announced our intention to allow ourselves to be sodomized with a rake while Ann Coulter pees on our faces. "Bbbbut, the cold!" they gasp in horror. Yeah, the cold. Whatever.

I'm a native Californian and I think I can hack a real winter. It'll be a nice change, especially if, in return, I get 4 seasons, the ability to pay cash for a cool old house near the capitol and have no mortgage, friendly neighbors who actually stay in one place for more than a year, great schools, a truly progressive and eco-conscious culture, and of course, no more drought worries.

My wife's from Kansas City so she's used to winters. But even if global cooling were going on, we'd make the move. Sure, I'll miss the beach and looking at the ocean and walking the dog in shorts and a t-shirt in January. But I'll also get playing with my daughters in the snow, getting to know my neighbors because we have to entertain indoors five months of the year, and discovering the upper Midwest, where I'd never spent any time before our Madison scouting trips. It's called the unknown. Change is a good thing. It's exciting, and sun ain't all it's cracked up to be, especially when you realize that California really isn't a very friendly place.

But I will never, ever, ever wear a cheese head. Or root for the Brewers. Go Dodgers.

Farnsworth, please tell me that was sarcasm. It's so hard to tell.

FTR, Hickabee plays the bass.

And puh-LEEZE let him get the GOP nod, because either Obama or Clinton would shred his cornpone ass in the general election. Americans aren't so far gone that they wouldn't recoil in horror from this clown, except for the delusional 20% or so who actually agree with him.

Run, Mike, run.

Dear God:

Please let Dominionist whack job Mike Huckabee win the GOP presidential nomination in 2008, so that Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton can electorally rape him in the general contest and deal nutso Christian evangelicals a body blow that will set their deluded movement back 50 years, which is really where it belongs anyway, what with all that "women should be subservient to the man" stuff.

Thank you, and please bless mommy and daddy and grandma and the Dodgers and my kitty and whichever personal trainer helped Hilary Swank get that body, because rrrow.

Amen.

...give the nomination to Huckabee! What better way to bury the right wing nutjob conservative movement until I'm a little incontinent old man than by running this deluded Dominionist cracker?

C'mon, Repugnant voters. You can do it.

The more Huckleberry Hound opens his piehole, the more everyone outside of the batshit insane evangelical community realizes this guys is, well, batshit insane. That is why I will now do my best Brer Rabbit impression:

"Oh no, Mistah RNC, please don' throw me into dat dere briar patch ova dere, and please don' make Mistah Mike Huckabee da Republicacious nominee for President. No! Don' do it! Have mercy!"

Making this Dominionist hayseed the GOP choice for Resident would be the gosh-darn nicest gift thinking Americans have received since...ever, I guess. I tingle at the potential to bury the Repugnant party until about 2050.

Zip-ah-dee-doo-dah, motherfucker.

I hear you, but I think that would only come into play in a tight election. I honestly think if Huck got the GOP nod the result, whether against Obama or Hilary, would be a bloodbath the likes of which we haven't seen since Nixon bitch-slapped McGovern in 1972.

Do I hear the sound of balls dropping?

'Bout goddamned time the Democrats showed a modicum of spine. The Senate abdication of its duty in passing their version of the FISA bill and telecom immunity was the most pathetic thing I've seen since...well, since the last time Congress rolled over and let Bush rape it like the drunken frat boy he used to be.

I lived next door for three years to the guy who played Chaka, and when he disclosed over a glass of wine with me and my wife that he had been the furry little dude, the evening turned into a great reminiscence of Land of the Lost and all the shows of that era. He's a great guy, by the way.

I agree with the other poster who slammed Dora, Little Einsteins and all the rest. I have a 3-year-old who can't get enough of The Magic Schoolbus, but at least that's educational. Most children's TV today is pablum trash designed to sell merchandise. So is Sesame Street, but at least it's still got soul.

My remedy: read, and share the great shows of my childhood with my daughters. Next in line are the DVDs of The Electric Company and Schoolhouse Rock.

Sing it with me: "I'm just a bill, yes I'm only a bill..."

I have a big ol' man crush on Dr. Dean.

Are those balls I see swinging from the Democratic Party? Well, maybe when they refuse to back down on the FISA bill, I'll believe what I see. Still, this is, as Borat would say, "Niiiiiice!"

Yep, and by censoring this story they've turned into a story on its own and made it 100 times more important. Nice going, hayseeds.

After watching the video, I have one question: why in HELL weren't Rove and the others who were subpoenaed to testify before Congress about this case and refused charged with contempt of Congress?????