To be honest, I thought about following Katie's lead... I just don't know if I can teach Yeti how to PhotoShop...

Peter, you need to invite Piers Morgan to a taping and show the little git how it's done!

I should have noted that Second in Line and I also carry his middle name as ours. He got it from his mother's maiden name. He has always reached out to us though neither of us were fortunate enough to know him.

Have Diane tape this to the table in front of you...

Lowering the flag to half staff:

James, nice rant on the Doctrinaire. You made it sound like an appliance maker...

You win an avatar! Private message me an idea and it's alllllll yours!

Where the Blue of the Night Meets the Gold of the Day....

No, he's been there for 25 years. Even as a Senator he could be totally impolitic.

To Ashley Carson of the Older Women's League: "I’ve spent many years in public life trying to stabilize that system while people like you babble into the vapors about 'disgusting attempts at ageism and sexism' and all the rest of that crap."

"Stop yapping your lips and listen good. This commission might be packed with millionaires, but we're looking out for little people who need Social Security.'

'I've made some plenty smart cracks about people on Social Security who milk it to the last degree. You know 'em too...We've reached a point now where it's like a milk cow with 310 million tits!"

It's not that difficult.

It's like trying to sober up a drunkard with coffee. All you get is a wide awake drunk.

With people like Rosanne Barr, when you give cranky, miserable people money all you get is a cranky miserable rich person.

Money is not happiness.

If you enjoy things like this try Poynter's Regret the Error column.

Here's a quote for you regarding Mr. Sabato's ability to predict November's outcome this early:

"...by June, you'd be far better off betting against the prevailing polling wisdom, if [a polling] summary of elections from 1980 to 2008 is any indication... In fact, only twice in the past eight elections has the November popular vote winner been identified by early June Gallup polls."

Who said that? Larry Sabato in the NYT this past January.

May I respectfully file a dissent from Mr. Justice Epstein's "case for big government."

SSA benefits are to help cover the costs of raising children whom the deceased parent had every hope and intention of supporting until adulthood. For a mother to conceive children with the direct expectation that a government insurance program will help pay for them is akin to setting your house on fire before you leave to purchase a homeowner's policy.

A case could be made that Hardball is a real look at politics. But so is Ed Rollins' Bare Knuckles and Back Rooms: My Life in American Politics.

I don't know if the teacher is an ideologue or just starstruck because she's seen two of the three on TV.

Kidney stones: The closest a man will get to labor pains.

Second in Line has already read the collective works of Ann Coulter and has his eye on a career in the USMC. I'm not particularly worried about him.

It's the idea that two of the three books are by media "personalities."