It pretty much tells you everything you want to know: Blue Dog Tim Kaine is fine even if the Dems lose, but Howard Dean is a pariah for winning the House, the Senate and the White House.

Yep.

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Just laid down for a short nap, and when I woke up, one eye was all blurry and it’s still not normal. It’s the eye I read with…

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David Wilcox is very funny in concert, but it’s hard to understand that if you’ve only heard his very earnest recordings:

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Just another move in the chess game by Big Money to lock up the world’s food supply:

Anglo-Australian mining giant BHP Billiton made an unsolicited $38.6 billion offer for the world’s largest fertilizer producer, Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan Inc., in an aggressive wager that developing economies will drive up demand for the world’s food supply.

Potash is an important nutrient that replenishes soil and increases farmland’s crop yield. Global potash supplies are relatively limited, and Potash Corp., based in the prairies of central Canada, controls approximately 20% of the supply.

The offer is likely to set off a long struggle for the fate of the Canadian company, a crown jewel of the country’s natural-resources-based economy.

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Cops always seem so shocked and surprised when a member of their family gets treated like the general public.

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We’re getting there!

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Hollywood has the vapors!

Google revolutionized the way people access information. Now it wants to transform how people get entertainment.

The search giant is touting an ambitious new technology, called Google TV, that would marry the Internet with traditional television, enabling viewers to watch TV shows and movies unshackled from the broadcast networks or cable channels on which they air. Users would need to buy a TV or set-top box with Google software that could connect to the Internet, along with a keyboard to type commands. Users could also use their iPhone or Android phone to operate Google TV.

The prospect of Google getting into television frightens many in Hollywood, who worry that Silicon Valley will upend the entertainment industry just like the Internet ravaged the music and newspaper industries.

By bringing the Web directly to the living room TV, entertainment industry executives fear Google TV will encourage consumers to ditch their $70 monthly cable and satellite subscriptions in favor of watching video free via the Internet.

Others believe it will fan piracy because Google refuses to block access to bootleg movies and television shows.

And, perhaps most troubling to Hollywood, Google doesn’t yet know how it will make money on Google TV — and whether it intends to compensate the studios and networks for the content.

I am aghast at the very thought of the demise of cable TV!

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Imagine how bad it is when Pat frickin’ Buchanan says Newt Gingrich has gone too far:

Speaking on MSNBC on Tuesday, the former presidential candidate and conservative commentator said recent comments from Gingrich likening the proposed project to the hanging of a Nazi symbol outside the Holocaust Museum were merely part of the former Speaker’s efforts to appear more controversial than Sarah Palin.

“Newt is a political opportunist,” Buchanan said. “What Newt is doing is he’s trying to get out and be more flamboyant and more charismatic, if you will, and more controversial than Sarah Palin, who is his primary challenger, if he gets into Iowa and New Hampshire. She will take all his oxygen and a lot of his support.”

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DCCC Chairman Chris Van Hollen refuses to deny he might vote for Social Security cuts, depending on “what’s in the package”. Yet people think I’m exaggerating:

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What Athenae said.

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