@Kid Canada: I love the mini-scandal brewing with the Rosh Hashana cards. What I doubly love is that Harper thinks he's going to get the Jewish vote when he scheduled the election for the first day of Succos.

@Hank Scorpio-Steinbrenner: That works.

@Kid Canada: Yes, but if the hitting is back to June/July, that's bad.

@Hank Scorpio-Steinbrenner: The trick would be to convert the question from a general "Would you invade Pakistan," as it was asked, to "Would you invade Pakistan in pursuit of bin Laden?" That takes some intellectual dexterity.

*do to Biden.

What Palin's going to Biden (yeah, right):

@spinachdip: Well, some questions just aren't answerable with a "yes or no" no matter how insistent the questioner is about that. I think "Would you invade Pakistan" is such a question. But I think the response I proposed would come off as a little more of a direct reply than the evasiveness Palin threw up.

@UkraineNotWeak aka DelgadoNotWeak: I think she could have answered some of those questions a little better and in substance arrived at the same place. On the Pakistan beratement, when Charles asked, "Do we have the right to be making cross-border attacks into Pakistan from Afghanistan, with or without the approval of…

They asked people to do stuff they were physically impossible of doing.

@HockeyMountain: We're going to veer off course a bit here, but here's a true story: I was at a neighbor recently, and he had these two big, beatiful dogs. Like golden retrievers, maybe, only furrier and white. Anyways, all of a sudden, one gets up on the other and starts humping it. So far, so good. Anyways, a few…

Thanks heavens. The Jays still have a season.

Someone gag Sutcliffe already.

Holy crap. Somebody do something here.

Feel free to bunt, Papi.

Apparently I missed a 3-run HR for that. I'm revoking my own channel-flipping privileges.

I swear she just said "nucular."

Sarah Palin and Fairbanks in a verbal 69, live on CNN.

Ooh, ooh, bonus Palin action...

Somebody poke Suss with a stick.

@THandE: I'm not at a computer to check, but didn't the Red Sox have a man on first with none out in the bottom of the 9th, with I think Ellsbury at the plate, and he went up there hacking? And now Ortiz bunts. Interesting strategery.