Just realized that in addition to changing all the clocks, we have to update our wall calendars today. Can’t remember the last time I had to do both on the same day.

Doesn’t that make this some kind of special holiday?

No biggie, just fishing for a better than usual excuse to drink tonight.

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Glenn Greenwald finds a three-year-old op-ed that speaks magnificently to the idiocy that is Afghanistan.

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Michele Bachmann talks about the new Michael Jackson movie.

Granted, it was only in passing, but it was the most coherent thing she had to say.

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Nate Silver says Doug Hoffman isn’t a sure thing, even with Scozzafava having been Scozzafavaed.

I’ve seen a video of Doug Hoffman being interviewed by Glenn Beck. People pushing shopping carts through back alleys have more charisma. Forty-something professional grad students are more coherent. Just one month ago the NRCC ripped him a new asshole.

There’s no way Hoffman should lose the Republican-dominated NY23, but it’s possible especially with labor flipping to Owens from Scozzfava.

See also John Cole on building a sustainable party and fellow Balloon Juicer DougJ on spin.

More.

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Stephen Friedman = Raj Rajaratnam?

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Obstructionist assholery = relevance?

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Pat Boone slighting.

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Making death panels sound like a good idea.

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News from the Wall Street Journal that you won’t see on Fox News.

Likewise this Pew poll.

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Californiafication.

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TECH:

Net neutrality next death panel lie fest?

“When you think about the prison-like atmosphere in which we’re force to travel — lacking the high-speed rail transforming the advanced nations of the world — and the five-mile-high coffins in which we’re locked for a cramped, nasty trip, who can argue with the punishments already meted out and yet to come for two Northwest Airlines pilots?”

Tasers

Apparently government has to consent to being monitored

F. Scott Fitzgerald Made $8,397 On Great Gatsby; His Daughter Gets $500,000 Per Year From It

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This week in God.

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This week in Science.

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Flipping out over coincidences: rightwits on the fact that two guys named Bill Ayers and Jeremiah Wright have visited the White House this year.

Except these are two other guys named Bill Ayers and Jeremiah Wright.

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Md Parks and Rec board thinks three lynched bodies hanging from trees was appropriate as a Halloween decoration.

Um, right. And yeah, I get that they were dummies. In the trees, that is.

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World Serious continues tonight with NYY up 2-1 over Philly.

Being a NY Yankee fan means never having to wear a bag over your head.

1963-1976 excepted.