Politics and other nightmares

Never mind the tawdry story of yet another politician caught in yet another lie about yet another affair, and continuing to lie even as he prostrates himself over the first lie (It's not my baby! That's just sleazy tabloid trash -- how could possibly believe it?) The scary thing is the type of woman a major politician would find sexy:

Mitch Daniels and Jill Long Thompson seem pleased with, or at least accepting of, the three debates that have been scheduled. Andy Horning is downright ecstatic:

My English teacher Mrs. Lee would have been appalled at the sheer illogic of a sentence such as this:

Numbers released by the U.S. Census Bureau Thursday reveal that nearly one out of 10 counties are now classified as "majority-minority," meaning the county's population includes over 50 percent minority residents.

IMHO, this is WOMBAT, 'K? OMGYG2BK:

"Da vp iz?"

In text messaging lingo, that translates to "The vice president is?"

Four years ago, Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) announced his vice presidential nominee, then Sen. John Edwards (D-N.C.), at a morning rally in Pittsburgh.

How times change.

On the roundtable part of ABC's "This Week" yesterday, three of the four panelists named Evan Bayh when asked to name a vice presidential cdandidate for Barack Obama. Not everyone is thrilled at such as prospect:

Anyone else. Being the governor of Indiana, a do-nothing senator from Indiana and the father of adorable twins does not qualify Bayh to be vice president.

The fact that we're the only state that still does a certain thing does not make that thing the wrong thing to do. But we should at least be open to the possibility that the other 49 states have it right:

This will be the sickest thing you read about the presidential campaign today:

They're not exactly rooting for him, but prominent white supremacists anticipate a boost to their cause if Barack Obama becomes the first black president.

Welcome to the next war:

Georgia's president said Friday that his country is under attack by Russian tanks and warplanes, and he accused Russia of targeting civilians as tensions over the breakaway Georgian region of South Ossetia appeared to boil over into full-blown conflict.

When they say "Not in my back yard" in Plainfield, they really do mean not in my back yard:

Residents of one of Plainfield's oldest neighborhoods want better streets and other improvements from the town, but they're not so hot on a proposed park.

They say the proposed park carved from open space in several backyards of the Duffy-Gibbs neighborhood would end the isolation they have enjoyed.