Thank you, Andrew.

By the way, I just watched your video, "The Extremists Are Coming" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nx_I1lzJ94w).

I agree with Maggie Gallagher: brilliant.

Ha! There is a planet with a marketing problem, that's for sure.

I guess Greece, China, Hungary and Chile will be next in line to complain about culinary-themed nation name puns. But I don't think changing the official pronunciation slightly will help. After all, Chile is already pronounced Chil-AY by the cultured. But that never stopped me (of course, I'm not cultured). When trying to think of nation-related puns, Iraq my Bahrain in ways you wouldn't Belize; I am always Russian into bad ones and leaving my listeners (who were hoping for full pun value) thinking, "Oman, Kenya believe that? Egypt me with that joke, but what you Ghana do? He's a real Laos." Let's just say they never ask me for Samoa. No, they say you go Uruguay and we'll go ours. Can't tell you how many times that hurt my feelings and Iran off.

So you see, this project of the Turkey marketers is useless: punsters cannot be deterred; increasing the distance from actual pronunciation to pun only increases the pain.

The word "colorful" in the headline is odd considering the omission of Colonel West's race in the body of the article.

According to Brownstein, Republicans are both "coalescing" and "stampeding" toward an unusually backward view. Since stampeding sounds faster, I guess those folks will get there first, and we coalescers will sort of drift in and stick to 'em. Lucky for Brownstein that he thinks and writes so much more clearly than we do.

Loved the ad. Had I written it, I'd be proud--and thrilled with the way she delivered it.

This moderator-endorsed comment by "TieDye" at Ace of Spaces suggests that the proposed facade is filled with references to the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

The most chilling point: "Also, the "dip" in the roofline has the eye seeing two buildings, and the varying light and darker areas do give the impression of smoke...."

Am I just being suggestible--like a kid looking at cloud elephants--or does TieDye not make a good case?

I got 15 of 15, but I wouldn't do so well on Paules'. I WAS surprised by the Pew question about the Pope's religion and what bears do in the woods.

Marco Rubio should make commercials for Angle.

These commercials could criticize Harry Reed's demogoguery and explain that Angle's policies and values best support all families in Nevada.

Perhaps he sounded like Chris Christie in the original Spanish.

It sounds like we agree about that.

You refer to Luke 23:39-43.

Jesus didn't save the criminals' physical lives--even though doing so was easily within his power. Instead, he pardoned one criminal and the other, I infer, went on to eternal punishment.

Although I may be idiosyncratic in this, I believe that the state's right to put-to-death (it "does not bear the sword in vain," as Paul wrote) is an image of God's right to judge the world. If we stop believing in the state's right to punish with death, we either will stop--or already have stopped--believing in God's right to deliver the ultimate eternal punishment.

As a Christian, I hate the death penalty like hell. But both are just.

"Embarrassing"--there's a telling word. There is a mini culture war (a culture skirmish?) taking place within the conservative-GOP camp.

It's true: Her Everybody Draw "project" was boorish and rude. However, it may not have been intellectually void; if the project had any intellectual content, it may have been, "I will prove that we have the right to draw whatever we want." Apparently and unfortunately, she has proven the opposite.

I don't know whom I'd vote for, but I recommend that if O’Donnell wins we rally around her.

In my red state, my daughter's middle school is photocopying handouts 4 to a page, at nearly microscopic size, to save money. Oh happy day! Thanks to the Federal government, I get to subsidize the educational palaces of profligate states at the same time as my children learn to squint through jewelers loops and fill in tiny handout blanks with cramped little sentences.