This is hardly unprecidented. Aaron Burr was vice president and was, I believe, serving when he shot Alexander Hamilton.

Cheney is in appropriate company.

Another great submission from KK. But having horn sound run out might leave all the jerks without horn just before they hit me (or I hit them). A better idea ... stolen, I didn't think of it ... is a law mandating that the horn be just as loud inside the car as outside.

Now I have to remember to carry tomatoes when I'm downtown ...

~Lan Barnes

San Diego

"At the White House, Press Secretary Dana Perino said that the White House didn't know about the phony briefing before it happened and does not approve of the concept."

Really? Two words: Jeff Gannon.

"The Court Jester" 1954: Danny Kaye (written by Sylvia Fine) Glynnis Johns, Basil Rathbone, Cecil Parker, Angela Landsbury. A goofus saves medieval England from a tyrant with lots of kings, princesses, great sword play, word play, music and silliness. Parents, don't leave the room -- this is a great movie for you, too.

"Fly Away Home" 1996: Jeff Daniels, Anna Paquin. A young daughter bonds with her estranged father when she adopts some orphan geese in Canada and leads them to their winter nesting grounds in the Carolinas by flying an ultralight aircraft as their mother goose.

"The Rookie" 2002: Rachel Griffiths and Dennis Quaid. A high school baseball coach/teacher who burned his arm out pitching in college heals up in his late 30s and takes a shot at the big leagues. Of course, he makes it. One of those based-on-a-true-story handkerchief movies, but well done and perfect for boys and dads who dream of baseball and girls and moms who love good men, good fathers, and good marriages.

Thanks for starting this project and I hope my suggestions make the list. They're great crossover movies that parents can love, too.

As an Obama supporter and an occaisonal Clinton critic, I feel compelled to correct Glenn Greenwald on a minor point -- indeed, an implication.

This Greenwald quote implies that Hillary Clinton based her political career on family name and accumulated fortune:

"And in this age of dynastic and nepotistic political power centers in both parties, I admire the fact that she created her political career out of nothing, with no parental connections or vast family wealth assisting her (the fact that Barack Obama did the same thing was, in my view, one of the very few meaningful differences between him and Hillary Clinton)."

In fact, as part of the couple who created the Clinton political structure in Arkansas and after, Hillary (and Bill) started out with nothing but their considerable native intelligence and skills. Whatever else anyone may say about her, she can claim to be self-made as much as anyone else can.

It is always thus with the Director of the CIA. We either get an insider who plays footsie with the abusive elements of the agency (black ops) and lies to the president; or we get a naive outsider who gets lied to directly.

Panetta may be able to cut through this being anything but naive and weak. But he'll still need a like-minded deputy from the inside who can point to where the bodies may be buried.