PSoTD

If only Colby College had worn a condom.

It's hard to figure out who to blame for Joe Klein. But I wish somebody would just accept it and get rid of him from the national pundit stage.

Pumpkinhead today asked the following of Barack Obama:

MR. RUSSERT: But if you don't win this time, would you run again?

Russert absolutely wasted a minute - the last minute of his program today - on the worthless question of whether Obama would run again if he lost this time. It's December, 2007, and no primary has occurred yet. Despite that, Russert already wants to know what Obama would do in 4 or 8 years. Is Russert that bored of the issues of this election?

Russert might tip the scales at over 250 pounds in real life, but in the world of assessing political gravity, he's weightless.

I wonder how long she takes poofing up her hair before she goes on television.

America: anyone that scares Peggy Noonan with populism must be worth a closer look.

Now that this cursed Chipmunks movie is out, perhaps you want to know who to blame for the whole Chipmunks thing in the first place.

Seriously, the term "War on Christmas" should offend everyone, whether they celebrate the holiday or not. And anyone who uses it as if it were somehow a legitimate context ought to be paraded in the town square as the buffoon they apparently are, including any newspaper writer/editor who thinks it is somehow worth expanding the idiocy of the concept by either inflating or deflating the rabblerousers who push it.

I'm sure there's going to be a debate about the pregnancy of this 16 year-old girl, and I think that's a healthy thing. It happens a lot - too often - and there is rarely any television programming that deals with the issue.

Here's a chance for Nickelodeon to do just that. They now have a popular program with kids that has a pregnant teenager as the star. What will they do? Write this into the story, or absolutely ignore the reality of the situation? It's a chance for Nickelodeon to be a responsible citizen with an important issue of the time that is happening on their very lot, and we'll see if they're up to dealing with it like adults.

It's piling up a lot of pre-Oscar awards.

I have to admit, I'm digging the new Life series on NBC. Damian Lewis as the lead character is very different than just about any cop you've seen in a crime drama. And Sarah Shahi definitely catches the eye every time she's on screen. Very promising so far.

I'm not usually one to make comment about someone's appearance, but somebody should pull Joe Klein aside and suggest to him that there's some combination of his head shape, his beard and whatever makeup he wears when he goes on television that makes him appear to be a drag king - the kind from those cheezy 1960s sitcoms where a female character plans to go undercover as a man for some reason. I think it's the beard.

Not that there's anything wrong with looking like that.

Then you're younger than TV's Rudolph. Happy birthday to Yukon Cornelius, Hermey, Rudolph and the gang.

I still think this is the most beloved of all the television Christmas programs made, although A Charlie Brown Christmas and The Grinch That Stole Christmas probably give it a good run.

I've been catching ads for Hardball on MSNBC over the past few weeks - not the "who is on today" ads but these focus spots on Matthews - and I wonder what it is all about. They feel like efforts to either redefine or rehabilitate his professional personality, casting him much more skeptical of power in the commercials than he almost ever comes off on his show.