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For those who care about such things, there's been a lot going back and forth about matters meta in the comments for this post.

For your amusement, Fox News's debate fact check . Insert fair and balanced joke here .

From CBS news, via Daily Kos , is a list of Bush's top ten flip-flops . The thing is, a number of them are more likely outright lies rather than flip-flops; I'd think you'd have to legitimately hold a certain opinion as a prerequisite of flip-flopping, rather than just initially (or eventually) lying in the name of political expedience.

I guess I am happy about Conan taking over for Leno in 2009. Leno being someone who needs a punch in the face even more than the Wilson brothers . I've been watching late night talk shows since I was twoish. Living in the Central time zone, Carson came on at 10:34pm and Letterman at 11:34pm, so it wasn't entirely unreasonable for me to stay up watching both. Watching years and years of Letterman has probably influenced me more than anything else, which might be something I'm proud of. I wonder if Letterman'll stick around to 2009 and go up against Conan.

My new nerd-phone arrived today. I'm happy with the colour screen and the seemingly-improved battery life, but I'm finding it difficult to adjust to the extra force necessary to flip the screen and the new button/keyboard layout. If much of what I IM as El LePhone comes out as gibberish for a while, you know why.

My mom has recently remembered that she is Jewish--reminded, no doubt, by the faculty at the yeshiva she's teaching at again this year. This is cute for a variety of reasons, only some of them sacrilicious (mmmm... sacrilicious!): she wears hats and long black skirts to work, she feels the need to duck down whilst riding in the car (not driving; we don't have one of those [American] robot cars) on Shabbos if she thinks anyone she knows might see her, and she put mini-yamulkes on each of her fake dogs, including Puddin', which is her female fake dog. And cetera. We went to Yom Kippur services on Friday night and came back and had a nice theological family discussion. I enjoy my family's discussions a lot more now that they're either about theology or how much we hate the Bush administration. The topic of free will necessarily came up, specifically in relation to the holiday and the theme of repentance. It's tough to wrap your head around repentance if you don...

I'm fairly bummed that I'm not going to get to see Wilco this tour. There were some tickets for the Radio City show that I was offered, but I've got to do recruiting stuff that night, so no dice. I am going to see R.E.M. and then Interpol a week apart in November, so there's that. Interpol's new album is more of the same, which is a good thing.