Why Kerry gets thinner by the day, this report from somewhere: Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour

A look at Real Clear Politics will show you how badly Bush hurt himself in the first debate. Their Home Page has a collection of editorial comment from a wide assortment of sources. Happens to be a good read too.

Roger Simon, and a few others, seem to think that Sullivan is somehow honest in his opinion that Kerry is a good place for hawks. Sullivan cares about one thing: his homosexuality and the demand that he be declared normal with all the perks of heterosexual couples. Period. Anyone opposed to gay marriage is bad, therefore Bush is bad. He's a fake, he's always been a fake both as a man and a talent, and is like far too many clever Brit homosexuals, he is the mistress of obfuscation. Oxford does that to almost everyone.

Flu Vaccine and the problems are best explained HERE Left out is the Hillary Care "take all risks including liability but make no money" angle. Still an interesting piece.

You are wrong if you think the Insurance scandal doesn't affect you. No retail insurance company carries all of its own risk. They always pass it on to a "re-insurer" in a series of packages. The price fixing is aimed at the re-insurers, the people who actually set the "rules" for insurance premiums. When they fix their own bids per package they actually determine your rates. Why do the big companies pass risk along? A State Farm agent who was a friend of mine had a picture of the San Gabriel valley taken from the POV of the main boulevard that ran a twenty mile length of the valley. He had personally insured 75 % of the office buildings along the street there, a value in the billions. State Farm ordered him to stop writing any policies in "the Valley" because the State Farm re-insurers refused to accept any more risk there. State Farm dropped at least half the policies, or more precisely raised their premiums so that other firms became cheaper. Because of the huge hurricane losses due to Andrew it looks like the big companies decided to raise the risk premium and cut down on the risk exposure without any competitive bidding.

Stealing the election: the Democrats continue to register every grave stone, fence post, and dead infant they can while the judges refuse to allow anyone to look. Remember, if it isn't close they can't cheat.

Nineteen to eight? There ain't no nineteen to eight in baseball. Red Sox go again. There ain't no curse of the Bambino, just bad front office management.

O'Reilley Alfredo with a side of crow: Best piece is in the WaPo.

O'Reilly's attorney, Ronald Green, would not deny that the sexual conversations had taken place, saying he could not address whether his client "used a particular word or phrase at any time as part of a joke." He said that the lurid, highly detailed "snippets" recounted in Mackris's lawsuit could have been "taken out of context" or "spun for exaggeration," and that O'Reilly "wants to hear the tapes if they exist." Green said he has witnesses who say Mackris told them that she decided to tape O'Reilly when the four-year employee returned to Fox.

He is one burnt piece of bread.