Can you believe the world's dumbest and most corrupt politician? Not Mugabe - he is just the dripping essence of evil. Not someone other than Mugabe who could illustrate bad but who, other than Mugabe, I can't think of as illustrating really really bad other than Mugabe. Except Mugabe had the idea …

I just watched an odd interview on the CBS morning show at around 7:20 am in which David Frum suggested rules needed to be changed about how the media works because of the stories going around about Sarah Palin supposedly started by McCain staffers. Reporting anonymous source should be banned …

So if this is true:  •  The co-chair of Mr Obama's transition team, Valerie Jarrett, said there could be a diverse, bipartisan cabinet. "I'm confident his administration will include people from all perspectives," she said.  •  ...could McCain get a post in the administration? If he was offered …

It has been an interesting week. Both the Democrats and the conservatives in the US are hopeful for different reasons: one is in power and one is in the desert. As if to inform each, it has been inordinately warm this week in the northeast of the continent. It's like all nature heralding the …

CNN reports at this minute (this very minute!) that Al Franken is behind in the voting 1,209,983 to 1,210,740 - which I make out to be a gap of 757. Maybe too big a gap. Kinda takes the sheen off the whole election for me.  •  Note to blogosphere: era of post GWB blogging begins. Will we revert …

This is an open thread to yak about anything you want. Like the fact that House is not on TV tonight. I am really ticked as I organize my emotional life around the calendar and House is a big part of that organization. Did you know why House is called House? It's Sherlock Holmes set in a hospital …

OK, you need something more to vote for, don'tcha. There aren't enough names on the ballot if you are in the USA and if you are in Canada, well, you haven't voted for a couple of weeks and right now you are feeling a little left out. So here are ten questions to answer. The closest to ten for ten …

Lots of weirdness in the air. The forces of fear. The forces for security. But there is also an undeniable hope afoot - if you are still able to recognize hope - with those who are about to vote for Barak Obama tomorrow as this column by Andrew Sullivan illustrates, especially in this concluding …

It is crazy but it looks like former Saturday Night Life cornerstone Al Franken could well get a seat in the US Senate. This would be a clear victory for the forces of nuttiness...and that's...okay.