Let's have a sweetsy-weetsy itty bitty debate-diddly-doodle!

Random triviata from your freaking adorable Slanted blogging family.

On the bump: Palin is hatching another baby, only this time on her head. If you listen very closely you can sometimes catch the tiny creature crooning the national anthem, as well as some Jewel songs.

On "Drill baby, drill!": Um ... The winking is enough. Really. There's no need to share your racy Alaskan pillow-talk with the nation.

On Main Street being toxically messy and Wall Street being infected by it ... was I think the general notion.... Only backwards. Turn that around in the opposite direction and you'll see what I'm talking about. Plainly. Oke doke?

On "People hate Americans with our freedoms, our ..., our ... etcetera." I can so relate! I bought some Freedoms this very afternoon at the Walgreens on Main Street. And I could feel the hatred of the people in line behind me just burning a hole into the back of my head as I paid for my beautiful pink box of Freedoms entirely in Abraham Lincoln coins! Those line-standers hated me. (I think they were the Icelandic peoples I can see from my kitchen window.)

On Biden: Note to self: Every time she says something that makes you angry, smile. You will have a chance to "inadvertently" step on her cute pointy little toes after this is over and she's stopped spouting her motherfucking toady-ass talking points.

We are spent. After 27 minutes spent thinking about politics our thoughts naturally turn to the even-more-sleep-inducing thoughts of our pillow.

Footnote: I love Joe Biden. Still. He speaks and misspeaks. But he's passionate and honest. His targets are grown up--meaning, they can take it and way worse. So cut the mock horror and overcontrition already.

Footnote 2: Sometimes you think something's funny. Then you wake up, take a second look and think it's not.

Footnote 3: I'll do everything within my power (unfortunately, not much) to help Obama win.

Footnote 4: What we all know is that politics is a game. And punditship is sports commentary, only way less accurate. The game is tedious from the start and largely cynical. If people can see through, we'll be okay.

Footnote 5: He who plays best plays without playing or being played. -- Nobody you know

Footnote 6: I like a tiny frog.