The Dish

A big Clinton win – not least because of her husband’s intense lobbying. Maybe more surprising: McCain’s emergence. Marc has the goods. Did Bill really call in to say thanks – on speakerphone?

Today’s Internet fund-raising effort is shaping up to be even bigger than November 5.

Chatham, Ontario, Canada, 10 am.

There is fear we say. Snow breaks over our feet.
The school bus drives away, a blizzard of young faces
at the windows. We fall sometimes when ice changes
the earth and to reassure ourselves we insist
there are no disasters here. But the day meanders
against our impatience as snow engulfs our bus
again and again. Inside, children carve frost-flowers
down from the windows to watch them melt against skin…

– "Children, Do Not Mourn The Snow," by Christine Klocek-Lim, is continued here on the wonderful poetry-photography website, November Sky.

Mad Money and the Republican insurgent team up against the Federal Reserve:

Look what Bush dragged in:

It also has to be admitted: Many of us on the conservative side have fed this monster. (Rightly) aghast at the abuse of expertise by liberal judges, liberal bureaucrats and liberal academics, we have sometimes over-reacted by denying the importance of expertise altogether.

"’Heart’ is crucial," one of George W. Bush’s early evangelical supporters argued in a 2005 newspaper column. This same writer accused those conservatives who questioned Bush’s "faith-based initiative" of having "holes in their souls."

So now instead of holes in our souls, we conservatives are getting candidates with holes in their heads.

"Yes, in theory, words are words. But literature isn’t data. The difference between Shakespeare on a BlackBerry and Shakespeare in the Arden Edition is like the difference between vows taken in a shoe store and vows taken in cathedral," – Jonathan Franzen.

When you can create landscapes from anywhere on earth … on your tabletop? Money quote from artist Didier Massard:

Several years ago, I was involved in landscape photography. There were many places in the world where I’d never gone that I wished to photograph. I realized that they would not at all look like the images I had of them. Reality was different from my imagination. So I started building and photographing in a studio what I had in mind.

Take your pick:

Pistol Whipping Party Penguins, Dance Me Pregnant, Yo Moma’s Big Fat Booty Band, The Asbestos Tampons

There’s more!