If it's Friday, it must be a slow news day

• This really is just an awful design for a U.S. Naval base.

• While I disagree with Pollster's assessment that crack cocaine can be snorted, I do agree with their assessment that the presidential field is still pretty wide open, based on massive amounts of voter uncertainty: people have preferences, but haven't committed to a candidate yet. While the numbers seem to contradict me, I suspect that when it actually comes down to casting votes, Hillary's numbers are going to take a big tumble. The Clinton years may represent the glory days of economic prosperity and military conflicts often too small to even make the evening news, but we also remember the ruthless power and PR battles between the Clintons and the GOP. My personal feeling is that a lot of voters will want someone with a cleaner slate, because the GOP is going to be as obstinate, belligerent and obstructionist as possible with a President Hillary and we all know it. The GOP, on the other hand, has to choose between someone whose mayoral policy included brutalizing his constituents (Giuliani), someone who doesn't go to church and doesn't really know what he's talking about (Thompson), someone they know now they should have voted for eight years ago but now he's just as crazy as Bush (McCain), and someone whose faith may or may not be some sort of weird cult which requires him to wear magic underwear (Romney).
  
  
• Rush Limbaugh: Any soldier who opposes the war is a "phony soldier."
  
  
• Edwards vows to chase a bottle of percocet with a fifth of Dmitri vodka and then slit his wrists "down the road, not across the street" on the campaign trail next spring.
  
  
• If Fred Thompson is running as Newt Gingrich, who is Newt Gingrich going to run as?
  
  
• Troops: George W. Bush doesn't support us.
  
  
• We can play madlibs with the names, then let's just put out the ballot, because this is most of what we're going to hear for the next 13 months.
  
  
• Why pay for one of those fancy dating services when you can just pick up some liberal with loose morals at an Obama rally?
  
  
• Bill Richardson, March 3, 2007: "I'm not running as a Latino candidate." Bill Richardson campaign email for end of 3rd quarter fundraising; September 28, 2007: