Also, as someone who has seen every SNL, ever: I really appreciate your report and your feel for the honor, but the whole part about the corridor reminded me that Studio 60 is now on Hulu.

The Brady Bunch Dad acts with some kind of accent, steals a formula for generating earthquakes, gets exposed to the bubonic plague and then he rings a secret Maryland laboratory with explosives, so that an experimental reactor would melt down and destroy Washington.

Thankfully, the boss from I Dream of Jeanie was an expert in all sciences, so with Wonder Woman's help (she's a wiz at math), they were able to save the day.

(Don't blame me. My kids just watched this episode, last week)

I just visited Drudge for the first time in years and one of his links to an AP story says that twice as many people over 65 have voted in NC than those under 30, so it may not be an overwhelmingly pro-Obama crowd.

Nevermind that people are still voting...

But, I've posted a few reasons to my TPM blog about why I think the continuing race is a good thing and I've touched upon them in some of my comments in this space. It seems to me that the primary group who'd like the race to end are the vocal Obama supporters and if you consider that turnout has been close to 50% and just over 50% of them have been voting for Obama, then the above 23% could be getting pretty close to representing his total vote.

I know that's probably not the case because I'm sure some who have voted are in the 60%, but I have to agree that most people are probably wanting the thing to continue because to them, it's not hurting anything.

Or better yet, Kerry's response to the two ads that Bush ran, where he was called to the carpet for mistakenly telling a newspaper, a decade before he ran for President that he had supported the concept of a 50¢ increase in the gas tax; A vote that never happened or which he never proposed. Not to mention, how this ten year-old misremembering was lumped-in with a vote against a tax holiday and nine votes for a single 4.3¢ increase to imply support for eleven boosts to the gas tax.

No, withholding conditional or simply saying that "if it was done right" isn't nearly as good as spending million to explain your choice, especially in light of the electorate's stellar history on the subject.

I mean, why should Playboy pay YouTube to host their Playmate Search, when the State of Utah or some other advertiser will underwrite it with an overlay? (Note: As stated in the NYTimes article, the overlays don't show on embeds and my experiments show that they don't always come-up via a direct link, plus the State of Utah is just one advertiser out of several featured over Holly Madison's introductory video, but if you're interested: The overlays for Holly's video do seem to show, if that replay isn't just showing an Adwords box, if you go through this page. Just click on the topmost video and hit reload until the tell-tale yellow marker appears)

I mean, I'm watching a Playboy production, so why wouldn't I pause the video so that I can watch a "Visit Utah" or an ad for vodka?

My wife read the last one and it's over there on the shelf. Her review at the time was that it seemed a little too cleaned-up and antiseptic, so maybe now that she doesn't need the money and her place in television is assured, maybe she's being a little more honest this time around.

Nonetheless, if memory serves, nobody went to jail because the underage girl misrepresented herself and she's the one who made the videotape, so obviously she was plotting something.

Of course, what always strikes me on my trips to that gallery is the $290,000 photo from Ansel Adams because I've always admired his work, but damn...

(Yikes! I watched GH for far too long, but thankfully, I basically fell out of the habit in the months after 9/11 and now, I only see it maybe once a month)

@pumpkinsoup: I don't know. I can actually picture a couple of scenes with Demi, but I probably couldn't pick Laura Palmer out of a line-up. There was just some kind of chaotic energy to her performance. Though, of course she was often playing against Emma Samms, so some of it may be in the comparisons.
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As for Demi's kid: I have to say that she seems to photograph well, when she is posed, but some of the more candid shots over the years have made me wonder.

Of course, what I really find semi-hypocritical is that I probably would've heard never about the photo, if it weren't for all of the talking heads pursuing ratings and the "experts" trying to get a little camera time. The pic would've come and gone, maybe it would've been picked-up by a fansite or included in an Annie Leibovitz gallery show, but if it weren't for all of the attention, no one would've known.

Basically, I'm saying that Obama needs a different tactic because he seems to be advancing the argument that he and his beliefs are somehow more important.