today's penetrating analysis from the WaPo

"Elections Key to Bush Agenda: If Democrats win one or both houses on Nov. 7, president faces becoming an early lame duck."

Well, thank god we have these guys to share their insight with us. I mean, I normally like the Post, even if I think the caption-writing intern for the website ought to be beat about the head with assorted dictionaries and style manuals, but good grief, who comes up with these headlines? (See also, News Flash: General Francisco Franco is still dead.)

approval!

Okay, so it's not that I'm a fan of online dating services.  But!  There was just a commercial on the TV for match.com, with lots of little stick figures wandering around and pairing up and then separating, like a big collage of trial and error, and when the little stick figures found each other and they were the right couple the pair of them would blink and then disappear, and some of the pairs? were pairs of little man stick figures, and some were little woman stick figures (this is in addition, of course, to the pairs that were one of each).  Huzzah!  I hereby advocate match.com for anyone who happens to be in the market for an online dating service.