I may get over it. Too bad the 4180 dead soldiers in Iraq won't.

At this point I can understand why you're so frustrated. You were personally invested in this election. It made you famous! Unfortunately with your candidate going down the tubes and being exposed for the vapid, unprepared fraud she is, your shot at the big time is going down with her. Who's going to take political advice from the man who thought Sarah Palin would make a good Vice President?

Anyway, it IS rich hearing a Republican, a supporter of Bush, complain about "vote fraud." It's even funnier when no such fraud actually exists. Or I guess it WOULD be funny if we weren't just subjected to 8 years of Bush because of your bankrupt hypocrisy.

Whatever. I can guarantee that no matter how panicked you are about the Obama administration, it won't cause a tenth the pain the Bush administration caused. Won't stop you from whining about it every day, but you'll deal with it.

And I'll be happy.

How is it that the Legislative Council is made up of "Obama supporters." And if it's the "Obama supporters" trying to drag her down, why did the inquiry begin before she was named as a VP candidate?

This makes no sense.

I still don't get how the Manny trade was so bad for the Sox. All we got back is Jason Bay, who's leading the team in hitting, on-base, and slugging in the playoffs.

But go ahead and blame the team's best hitter for 8-run and 9-run losses. That makes tons of sense.

You gave your parents some really crappy advice. Not only was it bad, but that kind of advice is contributing to the problem.

There has never been a 10-year span where the stock market went down. So in telling them to take it out now, you've guaranteed them a 25% loss, which they will have a hard time recovering by other methods.

We have the advantage of mathematics to give us some perspective.

At the worst point, the Sox had a 0.6% chance to win last night's game. Given their victory they now have approximately a 23% chance to win the series (Baseball Prospectus doesn't have the numbers up yet). Which means at their lowest point, the Sox had a .14% chance of winning the series, worse than 1-in-700.

In 2004 against the Yanks, at their worst point the Sox had a 16.2% chance to win Game 4, and that win gave them about a 12% chance of taking the series. So at worst, they had a 1.9% chance to win the series, or about 1-in-50.

This is all I will be able to think about for the next 35 hours or so, 'til first pitch Saturday night. What if the Sox come back and take this series? Best comeback ever? I'd say so.

Only if one of the current anti-health justices dies and Obama gets to replace him first.

I think you're missing the point. It's not "How dare this baby stay up so late and follow his mother around to all these events!" Nobody's blaming Trig. The question - and I think it's a legitimate one - is whether Palin is doing something wrong here.

Seems pretty clear that the answer is no. Trig is better off with his mother, period.

The discussion about the other kids is really interesting, though. I'd venture to guess the kids are either being tutored or some version of home schooled, either temporarily (for a few months) or this year. Which isn't a terrible thing. I mean, they're probably learning plenty enough in a few months on the road with their mother. Not math and science, but life experience. They'll have plenty of stories to tell, and plenty to reflect upon. I'd have traded a few months of the three Rs for that when I was younger!

I wouldn't expect it to get through the current Supreme Court, but I'm glad someone challenged it so relatively quickly.

This is the most unamerican thing to come out of 2008, in my opinion. And note that both major Presidential candidates were in favor of it.

That list is just more evidence that trickle-down economics is epic, epic fail.

That paragraph made me happy. Thanks.

When I discovered "quality of life" indices, I wondered why all the Nordic countries sat on the top, and what we could learn from them. That sparked my fascination with democratic socialist cultures. And that was even before I met my current girlfriend, a half-Swede who wants to move back there.

Two notes about the article, though:

1. The suicide rate may look higher that it really is because their reporting has historically been better than ours;

2. "Take away God, and our destiny doesn't look quite so manifest. The shining city on a hill becomes just another city, just another hill." Isn't that exactly how it should be? Sorry to break it to Americans, but we're just another city on just another hill. Once we think we're God's chosen people, it excuses acting, quite literally, holier-than-thou. And we've seen the negative effects very starkly in the past 8 years. Give me Nordic stoicism any day.

It doesn't matter if there is, in fact, nothing positive to cover about McCain. The right wing is going to latch onto this in order to stick with their "evil liberal media" meme, so they can continue to play the sobbing victims.

Seriously, nobody's more whiny than Republicans. Instead of crying that nobody likes you, why not do things that'd make people like you? That seems to be the logica-, oh, right.

1. Dick Cheney

2. Empty toilet-paper roll

3. The original Constitution