Another post-debate report

Debate transcript. And here's the skinny from factcheck.ORG (not .com, as Cheney said). Somebody must be getting their URL right because I'm still getting "server too busy" errors today. (Available Light has some info on that "Senator Gone" comment, too.)

And I just got around to looking at factcheck.com, which turns out to forward to georgesoros.com. That's hilarious.

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The reason you're getting so many links to CNN from me lately is because they've been inundating me with e-mail updates. Some good stuff, but jesus do they send a lot of e-mails. And I've been kind of busy and I haven't had time to comb the weblogs like I'd like to.

I'm catching up on Mark Morford's columns, though. Here's the latest:

Middle America is a scattershot conglomeration of the politically apathetic and the actively disenfranchised, full of people far too busy with their lives and kids and jobs and zoning out on "Fear Factor" and "Monday Night Football" to care about following the elitist, ever dire dramas playing out on the nation's gilded stages.

Most Americans, in other words, have no idea what the hell a Halliburton is. Or a Karl Rove. Or a Donny "Shriveled Soul" Rumsfeld. Or a Lockheed Martin. Or a Carlysle Group. Or have any idea that Saddam had nothing whatsoever to do with 9/11. Or that WMDs were never found. Or that President Bush has taken more vacation time than any president in U.S. history. Or that Jesus thinks Dubya is "sort of a dink." Or where Iraq is on a map.

("Sort of a dink"? I must've missed that one.)

Last week, he was meditating on why god hates Florida:

You know if, say, San Francisco had just been blasted by not two, not three, but fully four lethal trailer-park-eating earthquakes, why, the Right-wing Bible set would be yelping with barely disguised joy.

Of course they would. They'd be jumping up and down and saying I told you so and pointing to Volume 18 of "Left Behind" and claiming that this was, of course, God's wrath upon the sinners and the gays and the heathens and sodomites and the tofu eaters and the Toyota Priuses and the yoga studios and the anal sex and the incense burners and the Zen meditation centers.

Ha ha snicker, they'd say. Serves you right, they'd sneer. Shoulda voted Republican, they'd add. And then they'd go make lime Jell-O and watch Raymond.

I love this guy. Yeah, yeah, I know, all Republicans don't eat lime jello (and for that matter I have some lime jello in the cabinet myself. I put green grapes in it. Shut up, it's good). But it's still funny. And unfortunately, quite true.

It can't be science because the storms can't be in any way related to climate change or global warming, because as Bush policy has shown, nature is a merely a huge, exploitable sandbox for the rich and global warming is a big fat liberal myth and the Kyoto Treaty is a pathetic joke despite all those reams of international, world-class scientific evidence to the contrary. So, you know, screw science.