Man, what an asshole...

These thoughts come to you courtesy of Boboli-pizza-induced insomnia...

* If Howard Dean acted exactly the same way Prez Nimrod did during that debate, with the yelling and flailing and the near bumrushing of Charlie Gibson, do you think his performance would have been called passionate?

* Bush mentioned Dean, Cheney mentioned Dean. Stop it. In the novel Martin Eden, some upper-class yobbo derides Herbert Spencer and the protagonist responds, "Hearing that name pass your lips is like finding a dewdrop in a cesspool." It applies here too.

* Kerry was able to disagree with the woman who asked the pro-life question while maintaining respect for the woman's position. Bush answered the anti-Patriot Act question like a five-year-old with his hand caught in the cookie jar...

* Kerry was stuck for a loooooooooong time on that stem cell question...