The repugs aren't afraid of trials, but they know they can convince their base that they should be. If Bush had come up with this idea, they all would be cheering him for the having the nads to put the criminals on trial yards from where the crime occurred. But Obama does it, and he's being reckless. Treating these men like enemy combatants is what they want - they are not noble soldiers, they are slimy criminals, and should be treated that way, just as we should have hunted down Bin Laden like the international criminal he is, not the leader of an opposing force. That elevates him. They should be treated like the bugs they are.

He's not going to run for President. He just wants to get in on the right wing propaganda money machine, and knows that CNN would eventually boot his ass anyway for that stuff, so why not quit and look like he's "going rogue"? The only way he'll run is to create publicity for his shenanigans. If we would start ignoring these people, they would go away a lot quicker.

I am a huge fan of Wes Anderson's Rushmore and Tennenbaums, but found the Deerjerling Limited and, especially, the Life Aquatic, to be disappointments, due to severe structural problems in the screenplays. My theory has always been that Owen Wilson, who is a terrifically underrated writer, brought a good sense of storytelling to the screenplays he cowrote with Anderson, while Baumbach tends to emphasize Anderson's weaknesses. My hope is that working from an existing text will impose structure on this film, and this will be a sharply written movie. This review heightens my hopes.

The last three episodes of this season were stunning. And they have basically rebooted the series for next year - hopefully the new characters they bring in will be as good as the ones who apparently will be leaving, or a least reduced. And they have left enough dangling plot lines to keep things interesting: Will Don end up with Sally and Bobby, since they seem to be an afterthought to Betty, who clearly favors Baby Gene? How will Pete and Don react to Peggy dating Duck if they find out? Will Roger dump his teenage bride for Joan, once her husband is blown up in Viet Nam? Will Sal come back, or will he take his Ann Margaret impersonation on the road? And what about Freddy Rumson and Guy MacKendrick's mangled foot? I can't wait for season four.

The governor races both seemed to be cases of "all politics are local", not a broad national trend. From all reports Deeds ran a horrible campaign. And in New Jersey, I was shocked, just shocked, that a former banker who looks like a college professor lost an off year election with a crappy economy largely blamed on the bank he used to run. Just shocked. But neither lost to right fringe candidates. Of course, the one right fringe candidate who had a chance lost a congressional seat to a Democrat since before the Cubs stopped winning World Series. (And the Dems also held on to a seat in California, which no one covered because...well, probably because it went against the storyline both Fox and MSNBC were trying to sell that the Dems are doomed.) So that means the Dems are in trouble in the house races next year because...they held one seat and picked up another? Hmm. That is odd logic, said Alice to the Mad Hatter. It seems the real losers last night was the right wing of the Republican party, which couldn't get a nomination in the Governors race, and lost the one race where they were represented. This election only signals a continued shift to the middle for both parties.

A conservative winning New York 23 is not shocking. The infighting that preceded the election is. If the republican continue to veer towards the right, they will become even more of a afterthought party, especially outside the south. And there will probably be a split in the two major gubernatorial races. And considering that Corzine comes from the world of Wall Street, whose approval ratings would probably be below that of Congress, I'll take that. If the Republicans would look at the tea leaves - Marijuana Legalization and Gay Marriage gaining momentum, some kind of health care reform likely to be passed, they would realize that their type of red meat politics might play in segments of the country right now, but ten years out, they are going to be even farther out of step with the mainstream. And I still have not heard one republican name a candidate who could win a national election in 2012. Palin, Romney, Huckabee, Pawlenty, Jindal? Give me a break. The Republican party is still in disarray, and New York 23 proves it.

Now that I understand that Larry David is supposed to be an alien, it might make more sense. I was always of the opinion that it was a comedy that just sucked. Perhaps I can watch it for more than three minutes now without projectile vomiting from the bad acting and unfunny jokes. But than again, why bother?

How did you get it? How did you verify it? If you have legitimate answers to these questions, tell us. If not, you shouldn't have run it. I hope it is true. Doesn't really have any thing in it too dangerous for her politically, but reminds people of what a dunce she is, and how scary her religious views are.