I'm curious as to whether Fred Thompson wrote a letter in support of Scooter. Didn't Fred serve on Scooter's Legal Defense fund?

1. If we get nuked, it's comforting to know that Mary Matlin and James Carville and their progeny will survive in an undisclosed location to intermarry with Cheney's progeny and repopulate the USA--not!

2. The name "Mr. Scooter" is frickin creepy . . . in any context!

3. Matalin: "Kids are the most honest and true evaluators of people." Okay, she's right about that. That's why we have absolutely zero cases of pedophile priests or Internet predators.

Mary Matalin--accidentally illustrating why the faith-based approach is not suitable in criminology (or in selecting a baby-sitter).

If it's true that Jobs wanted all TV shows reduced to $1 then I can almost see how NBC thought that was unreasonable. Earlier, the record companies wanted to ramp up the prices on music by popular bands and I can understand why Jobs hated that idea. Some people have theorized that the TV networks want to do bundling (forcing you to buy a show or movie you don't really want along with the one you do {at a higher price, of course} providing the effect of subsidizing their junk shows. But if you put politics and consumer psychology aside, there's no reason why iTunes can't sell shows at varying prices (it already does for audiobooks).

So what if Jobs had gone to NBC and said "Okay, I understand that you need $2 for every 1-hour show of "Heroes" with it's expensive special effects budget, but why can't you sell a 30-minute episode of "The Office" for $1?"? It's probably too late for that now.

We have a volunteer military that wasn't in need of George W. Bush. Really, really, really didn't need him. Better off without him actually.

Tim Grieve asks : "Does he [Giuliani] believe that God has "lifted the protective covering"?". Robertson's claims are still up on his web site today (http://www.patrobertson.com/PressReleases/TerroristAttack.asp) so he apparently still holds them. So my question is for Robertson. How does voting for an adulterous, pro-choice, pro-gay candidate NOT provoke God to lift the proverbial protective covering? And, by extension, isn't any Christian who contributes to Robertson's "ministries" also provoking God to smite us again?

Illegal immigration is a problem: it may even be among our top ten. But it is certainly not in our top five. I hope the Independents will not fall for this Republican scapegoat in 2008. If they do, we are all doomed.

MR. RUSSERT: Using that reasoning, would it be appropriate for a president to provide Secret Service protection for his mistress?

MR. GIULIANI: It would not be appropriate to, to do it for that reason, Tim, and that isn’t, that, that isn’t the right way to—you know, that isn’t the right way to, to analyze it or to say this. The reason it’s done is because somebody threatens to do harm, and the people who assess it come to the conclusion that it is necessary to do this. The reality is that it all came about because of my public position, because of the fact that when people are public or celebrities these kinds of threats take place. And the New York City Police Department has rules; they applied the rules, they applied them in exactly the same way as they always apply them. I did not make the judgment. I didn’t ask for it. Judith didn’t particularly want it, but it was done because they took the view that it was serious and it had to be done this way.

Shorter: it's not appropriate for a president's mistress or a mayor's mistress to get free taxpayer-funded security . . . unless, of course, the professionals decide it's necessary.

If you attracted no interest (or just mixed signals) from the big manufacturers at the Detroit Auto Show, build your own shop. Let people bring their own VUEs in for retrofitting. When the shop gets overwhelmed with business, open a second shop. When the second shop gets overwhelmed, start selling franchises all over the country (and set up a school to train and certify the technicians).