You're just a romantic...and Julie Delpy -- and especially the Before Sunset and Before Sunrise films -- all seem to bring that out in some people!

Thx also to Andrew O'Hehir for the interview with Julie. She's infinitely more interesting to listen to than about 99% of the actresses and directors today!!

* I meant that sarcastically. Sorry if it didn't come off that way.

but not dumbstruck enough to offer a small bit of gratitude that this wasn't spun into Salon's usual Obama-bashing...

If you want the BEST laugh of your life, check out the most amazing blog, "Baby's Named a Bad, Bad Thing. A Primer on Parent Cruelty."

http://notwithoutmyhandbag.com/babynames

Read about the mother who wants to name her child Sophelia (because she loves Olivia and Sophie but finds them too common), an dif not Sophelia, then Allorah, Fairith, Sabriel or Katrien, not to mention the mother torn between "Brecklyn Kate" and "Ridgely Mae."

OMG, I'm laughing just checking this site out again!!!!

That's all, Glenn. Just wanted to say that you nailed it, perfectly, and eloquently.

As Einstein said, Harry Reid and the Dems have not failed. They've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

And I doubt that this time will be any different.

If Generalissimo Bush wants this asshole in, he's going to get in. That's how it works in a dictatorship, folks.

And Reid is incapable of doing anything useful, as we will find out when a Republican, gasp, wins the next election, despite their utter incompetence and disgrace...

She wasn't ever particularly talented, and even when she was younger, and tauter and hotter, it didn't get her particularly far (witness "Striptease") and now she's 40, and she still doesn't have much talent, and not even $200,000 in bodywork, and a jailbait boyfriend can save her.

Sorry Demi. You were a second rate soap actress, and maybe that's where you should return...

Southwest did something stupid -- i.e., making an issue of the woman's clothes.

So the airline realizes it (MAJOR RELEVATION #1), takes responsibility (MAJOR REVELATION #2), and then does something to try to reward customers (MAJOR REVELATION #3), by poking fun at itself (MAJOR REVELATION #4).

What part of this is so irksome to you?

Most companies wouldn't even realize, or would spend all their time trying to deny, cover it up, or issue legalese gobbledygook.

Give em a break, and give them some credit for taking responsibility and trying to make it right, something our new Bushist culture actively discourages otherwise.

And I love that she included "Mystery" from VH1 and Kim Cattrall!! What a hoot!

News at 11...

She will, of course, be keeping her name after marrying Henry...

Seriously, this is my nightmare. An undending parade of incompetent, immoral Bush family members in charge of my future...

what Ann Coulter will be for Halloween...

Remember the old "Shuttle" between Washington DC and New York? Everyone used it, because you could run out the door in DC, and be in NY just a few hours later.

Now, except for a handful of celebs and politicos, who get VIP treatment by the Homeland Security thugs, and don't have to park themselves on either end of the trip, who would even bother to fly anymore between DC and NY?

I know I don't.

I take the train or I drive.

Consider this.

• Home to airport -- 45 minutes
• Parking at airport, and getting into terminal -- 30 minutes
• Waiting in lines at airport to check in, waiting in line for security check -- 30 - 60 minutes
• Boarding, sitting around, taxi-ing, waiting for takeoff, flight time, landing, taxi-ing around, finding a gate, getting to gate -- 90 minutes
• Getting your luggage -- if you dare to check it -- 30 minutes
• Transport from airport into Manhattan -- 45 minutes
• TOTAL TRAVEL TIME: 4 1/2 to 5 hours -- plus the expense of an airline ticket, AND major aggravation

Barring major traffic disasters on I-95, with my Easy-Pass, I can get door to door to Manhattan in about 4 hours, and that's INCLUDING a break at one of the rest-stops in NJ for a Starbucks and a muffin.

Timewise, the train is also about the same, door to door.

Why would ANYONE take a plane for this sort of trip? Especially when it's MUCH more likely that you're going to be sitting there and the flight will be delayed leaving, and then won't get a gate, and they'll lose your luggage, and the surly gate staff and FAs will treat you like cattle, and so on...

I think to some extent, some of the short-hop regional stuff has to be taking a hit, because these days, if an air trip -- including the to/from airport, and the long checkin line/take off your shoes and belts and no liquids security stupidity/be here 2 hours in advance nonsense -- is going to take 6 hours or less, I'm going to drive -- or take a train if available. And I can't believe I'm alone in that.

snicker, snicker...