Category: The Dish

Makes Bush look like a tightwad.

Seattle, Washington, 3 pm.

K-Lo thinks Romney had a good night, not that she’s obsessed or anything. Althouse loved Clinton’s brown-trimmed pant-suit. Among the non-batty, here are some concerns about Clinton’s Medicare math. Matt loves the Clinton-hate. My own disappointment with the size of Obama’s balls is registered here.

One word: water. Nuclear power is extremely dependent on lots of easily available – and cool – water supplies. Those supplies, as we see from Atlanta, are under stress. I can’t see this as a deal-breaker, but it certainly suggests some of the paradoxes to be faced in grappling with climate change.

A genetically modified fabulous looking pet – for a cool $24,000 a pussy.

After the hideous crackdown, it says a lot that some monks are marching in protest again:

More than 100 monks in Pakokku Township in Burma’s Magwe Division marched in a peaceful demonstration through the town on Wednesday morning. The monks paraded through the streets chanting the “Metta Sutta” (the Buddha’s words on loving kindness)…

On Wednesday, the monks started out at Pakokku’s Shwegu Pagoda, marching for nearly an hour and chanting Buddhist prayers without incident, and then returned to their respective monasteries. Sources said many residents bowed before the protesting monks. The authorities did not intervene.

Speaking to The Irrawaddy by telephone from his hiding place last week, U Obhasa, a leading monk and one of four being hunted by the junta, said monk-led demonstrations could resume in Burma in late October. It could not be confirmed, however, whether Wednesday’s march in Pakokku was organized by the underground network of monks who describe themselves as the “Alliance of All Burma Buddhist Monks.”

The pathology of the closet claims another victim.

He puts it best himself:

Young ideas, a fantastic idea about individual freedom and allowing people to do what they want and take care of their lives, their lives belong to them, and get the government off their backs, and offer them low taxes, and make sure I never mess around with the Internet. Don’t tax the Internet, and don’t regulate the Internet.

You know, freedom is a very popular idea, and young people love it, and they’re open to ideas. And they like principled answers to our problems.

And older people seem to be stereotyped. You know, they get set in their ways, and they’re not as open to the ideas of freedom, yet, to me, freedom is a relatively new idea. It was an experiment, you know, with our country, but we have forgotten about it, and I’m reminding them about this great experiment of freedom, and they love it.

Freedom: I wonder if today’s GOP leaders have heard of the idea?

(Photo: Eric Thayer/Getty.)

Ross thinks that pundits like me are more skittish about a Clinton Restoration than most normal Americans.

Josh has it. I’ll read it in the morning.