I didn’t get to watch, just listen. My admittedly biased analysis is that Kerry did pretty well. Bush sounded a little whiny and defensive throughout. People keep saying that Bush’s facial expressions were annoyed and defensive, which sounds right, though I didn’t see it. Kerry was pretty good in countering Bush’s Iraq flip-flop charges. I […]

So I bought Chain of Command today. But hey, I did read Matthew and Mark. That’s progress.

Judge Blocks U.S. From Secret Searches
NEW YORK - Declaring that personal security is as important as national security, a judge Wednesday blocked the government from conducting secret, unchallengeable searches of Internet and telephone records as part of its fight against terrorism.
The American Civil Liberties Union (news - web sites) called the ruling a “landmark victory” […]

Poll: Governor’s race ‘even’
HELENA - The race for governor of Montana is about even, with 45 percent of likely voters supporting Democrat Brian Schweitzer and 41 percent backing Republican Bob Brown, a Lee Newspapers poll last week shows.
Because Schweitzer’s 4 percentage point lead is within the poll’s margin of error of plus or minus 4 […]

Some guy on O’Reilly just said that the difference between Moveon.org and the SBVT is that SBVT base their accusations on fact. They were discussing this ad by Moveon about Gallup. Oddly, they focused on the last paragraph of the ad and not on the actual factual claims in the ad, which are spot on […]

There won’t be any posting for the next two days, in all likelihood. I have a paper to write tonight and a math test to study for tomorrow. What that actually means is I’ll write half the paper tonight and leave the studying and other half of the paper to tomorrow night. The paper […]

Pittsburgh 13 - Miami 3
Florida State 41 - Clemson 22
Colorado St. 39 - Montana State 14
And Ichiro is getting closer to a single season hits record.
So, 1 for 3 again. I’m now predicting 3 wins for Miami this year.

I now own the 9/11 Commission report as an audiobook, via iTunes.
Why?
Well, I’ve not figured that out yet. But it was only $4.95.

I’m not sure if this is a good idea (via Slashdot), but what the hell did that guy do to his teeth?

Video game puts players in Kerry’s virtual Swift boat
Kerry is unaware of the game and had no comment, spokeswoman Allison Dobson told The Associated Press. She said Kerry doesn’t play video games.
Well, he’s lost my vote.