Every now and then, we try to watch the national news so we'll get the jokes on the Daily Show the next day. So, even though Comedy Central's fake news outlets are on break this week, we were watching the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer last night and turning away when the Saddam Hussein on the gallows footage was on (like a game of hangman, we keep expecting a half-completed word to appear under his feet,......

Since we've been doing a bunch of postings about our super-exciting congressional race, we'd love to come up with some clever title along the lines of "Everybody Hates Chris" but we are coming up with nothing. Sorry-- we're a little jet-lagged these days. Needless to say, we do have some Pelosi & Pals news today as the Washington Post has a big feature on some anti-lobbying bill she's been working on for awhile that could see the light of day if she does become Madame Speaker. Lots of bans on travel and gifts are involved and we'll see what happens the moment she does become Madame Speaker. Our guess is that it'll pass with loopholes a' plenty....

Congressional Candidates for San Francisco's lesser parties-- Green, Libertarian and Republican held a press conference yesterday to highlight Nancy Pelosi's refusal to debate them. Or do pretty much anything to acknowledge their existence like responding to letters. The press conference featured Krissy Keefer (Green Party), Philip Berg (Libertarian Party) and Mike DeNunzio (Republican Party) and was held in front of the federal building. Instead of attending, Pelosi sent an aide with a letter to the meeting, which was read out loud. The letter basically said Pelosi was too busy campaigning elsewhere to campaign in the city she represents. You know, we'd pay to see a Keefer/Pelosi debate, especially if they let Keefer bring the Taiko drums. ...