A new one for the list: Lapels.

All I know is, the first candidate to wear a Grateful Dead Skull and Roses pin gets my vote.

And a hefty donation.

Do it.

Ann Coulter said terrible things. Repeat: Ann Coulter said terrible things.

I expect a full Writ of Condemnation on the Senator floor, as soon as possible. Three, perhaps four days of debate on this one.

The war can wait. This is important stuff.

New digital media technology is allowing ABC News to buck recent economic trends, and open seven new foreign bureaus:

It's the largest expansion of ABC News' international reporting in two decades...They will be opened in Seoul; Rio de Janeiro; Dubai; New Delhi and Mumbai, India; Jakarta, Indonesia; and Nairobi, Kenya.

...While smaller media operations have been using technology to get by with fewer people for years, ABC is the first big one to try it on a broad scale. The chief of the network's London bureau says it's possible because of the explosion in technology that's affordable and hand-held.

Certainly, this is a positive step. But I wonder why the same argument isn't used to provide better and more thorough news coverage domestically, as well?

This is essentially the same news model that Current.tv uses, other than ABC will presumably use "professionals," while Current uses "amateurs."

I actually watch quite a bit of Current, and there's something very immediate and raw and real in some of their stories. I would imagine applying a more journalistic approach would be very worthwhile. (By that, I really mean, a more "current events" kind of reporting -- less people skydiving and such.)

It will be interesting to see how ABC's plans turn out, the kind of reports these new digital news people produce, and whether this model will be extended to also cover U.S. news.

If Democrats think they can out-Republican the Republicans, they need to think again:

But no Republican senators signed the letter, highlighting a significant difference between the responses to the MoveOn advertisement and the Limbaugh comments. The Republican-backed plan to condemn the Petraeus advertisement drew substantial Democratic backing in the House and Senate, while Democrats have been unable to splinter Republicans on Mr. Limbaugh.

In fact, a Republican has gone as far as preparing "a resolution praising Mr. Limbaugh."

Touche.

I'm all for using dirty tricks, fighting fire with fire. Or, as Steny Hoyer puts it, "what's good for the goose is good for the gander." That is a great strategy. If, of course, you're capable of pulling it off.

But Democrats, time and again, prove incapable of playing the Republican game of gotcha. It requires a certain level of solidarity, one that is not in place, oen that seems to be incapable of cultivating. For Democrats, this particular game is a loser.

So why keep trying?

Ya wanna show em? Defund the war.

Other than that, they come off simply looking like wannabes.

So, I'm starting a list of very important things in politics today.

So far, I have:

- Hillary Clinton's laugh

- What Rush Limbaugh says

Developing...

Recently, I haven't been paying much attention to politics.

Apparently, Hillary Clinton's laugh is a very important thing.

I will continue not paying attention to politics.