Big Tent Democrat is working on a brief this weekend. I'm heading out for the afternoon, here's an open thread for you. Please be civil.

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Big Tent Democrat has a brief due and will be off-line most (if not all) weekend.

Crooks and Liars has Jon Stewart's take on the Hannity-Palin interview, it's great.

Also: Markos' take on how Sarah Palin is going to drag down the Republican ticket and law prof Patricia Williams comparing the Palin effect to an Andy Warhol soup can project.

Here's an open thread to get you started on the weekend. Keep it civil please, and I'll check back in later.

Your turn.

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This is good humor in my opinion:

"Sent from my BlackBerry Wireless Handheld, a miracle made possible by John McCain."

-- The signature appended to emails sent by Obama spokesman Bill Burton.

I haven't seen any news today, or even opened my e-mail, but I can tell from BTD's last post, it's still being dominated by Gov. Sarah Palin. I hope he noticed I did not write about the tanning bed even though I read about it last night -- I agree it's petty, silly and has zero to do with her governing, since her spokesman said she paid for it with her own money.

I'm still at work and the TL kid is coming over for dinner, so here's an open thread for those of you that were paying attention to the world at large today.

I'm watching Weeds. It's the best season yet. Tonight the DEA questions Nancy. And Nancy is outed as a cooperator. It's the final episode of the season.

What are you watching or doing?

Update: I just noticed we wrote 25 posts today. Hope some of you will scroll down and to the next page to read them.

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We've had a request for an open thread. Here it is.

Green Bay 21, Detroit 3 at halftime.

Jeralyn and BTD are both flying this afternoon and I'm watching football so here's an open thread. You don't have to talk about football but you do have to follow the commenting rules.

Update: Packers 48, Lions 25. 2 INT's and 1 TD by Charles Woodson. INT and TD by Nick Collins. 328 yards and 3 TDs for Aaron Rodgers. Now it's time for the Jets and Brett Favre.

I am switching between Meet the Press and ABC's This Week, Charles Schumer is on MTP and Claire McCaskill is on ABC's This Week.

In the first few minutes, we can see the difference between a good surrogate and a bad surrogate. Schumer is talking about how McCain/Palin is running for Bush's Third Term and ticks off the issues, the economy, foreign policy, energy policy, etc. Schumer's line "McCain/Palin is NOT change from George Bush." Pitch perfect.

McCaskill (going against Carly Fiorina) spent the top of the show attacking Sarah Palin. She is awful. Just awful. She has to be taken off the surrogate circuit.

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By Big Tent Democrat, speaking for me only

If anyone had any doubt, today's college football results prove that the Big Ten stinks.

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We're off to a dinner event at the Salvador Dali Museum in St. Petersberg, FL tonight. The featured exhibit is Dali's View of Women.

More than 100 of Dalí’s works from the permanent collection are on display until September 21. A range of diverse approaches are found in Dalí’s view of women, most evident in his many depictions of his wife, Gala. He painted her as the Sphinx, Gradiva and Leda, infusing in her his interest in the feminine myths of mothers, daughters, muses and predators. ..."

This is an open thread, all topics welcome. Have a great evening.

I'm still in meetings in Florida learning about new developments for LexisNexis and Martindale Hubbell.

Here's a picture I took last night at the boat marina.

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For non- McCain = Bush's Third Term commenting, use this thread.

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