[W]hat the upset of Murkowski portends for the mayoral candidacy of Ricky Hollywood.

Heh. If teenage girls in Wasilla could vote, his castoffs would constitute a plurality -- er, sources say. Rumor is the boy was (and is) a notorious "Hit-and-Run" artist.

Sounds like it's time to turn the phone off and go back to bed until evening

Not on an Election Day, my friend. I was working on the national desk at The Washington Times on the night of the 2000 election. We went through four editions, the last of which didn't go to press until nearly 4 a.m., after Wes Pruden personally approved the main A-1 headline: "TOO CLOSE TOO CALL."

Didn't work for Dale Peterson.

Define "work," Kenneth. True, Peterson didn't win the Alabama ag commissioner race. However, thanks to that John Ford-themed ad, Peterson went from being an asterisk in the polls to getting 28% in the June 1 primary, which forced Dorman Grace into a runoff against John McMillan. Peterson then endorsed McMillan -- via another Ehlinger video -- and McMillan defeated Grace in the July 13 runoff.

Peterson specifically targeted Grace -- "taking money from industries he would regulate" -- in his now-legendary first ad. Ask Dorman Grace if that ad "worked."

For those of you who didn't see last night's episode of Mad Men -- which seems to have replaced The Sopranos as the most talked-about show on TV -- there's an episode synopsis at the Wall Street Journal.

The plot point to which Mr. Poulos refers is that the ad agency is seeking to land the Honda account, but senior partner Roger Sterling -- a World War II veteran -- tries to torpedo the deal because he can't forgive the Japanese.

In general, Americans have viewed magnanimity toward the conquered as noble and manly -- U.S. Grant at Appomattox being the great example -- and Sterling's bitterness toward the Japanese thus marked him as, if not a villain, then certainly a weak personality.

One wonders if Mad Men's writers weren't trying to make a comment on a certain situation in Lower Manhattan that I've sworn will not monopolize my guest week here.

As a political pundit, Frank Rich is an excellent theater critic.

And the war, tragically, continues.

Once again, neocon warmongers have foiled the effort of liberals to bring about world peace by winning the love and respect of armed fanatics who want to kill us all.

Speaking of Sunday morning shows, my brush-with-greatness moment was when Rachel Maddow denounced me on "Meet the Press" but -- alas! -- didn't actually say my name.

A bald man with his opinions would have gone nowhere.

Which was, really, the essence of my argument against the John McCain nomination in 2008: "Hello, he's bald! Look at Mitt Romney's glorious head of hair! Ted Danson's weave never looked that good!"

Don't get me wrong: I'm OK with bald people being Republicans. Just not as presidential nominees.

Tila Tequila? Go for the gold, man: Alyssa Milano.