Heard at choir practice yesterday: my choir dominatrice brought in a CD she found in her yard after she put up a Kerry/Edwards sign. It had a little orange sticker that said, approximately (and somewhat incoherently):

MOSLEM’S FOR KERRY!

ALLAH DEMANDS IT!

he must be elected!

Weird, eh? It’s a teen-boy prank, of course. There’s been a rash of signs torn and burned on both sides of the political fence, all over the country, and it’s my opinion that it’s snot-nosed kids. I wonder if I’ll get a free CD if I put up a lawn sign?? I’ve been thinking about putting up an Obama sign, a Bean sign, and a Kerry one if available, but the local Dem office says they’ve only got the first two available.

Heard on the way in to work: WXRT played a great little song called “Hard Work,” which is available off of the Harry Shearer: Le Show website. Yep, political commentary, I bet they got a lot of calls.

Well, I thought it was funny. Catchy tune, and great chorus, not terribly danceable though. It made me chuckle because when Pop would get home from work, Mom would ask him “Work hard, or hardly workin?” so she could figure out if he was tuckered out, or willing to do some chore or other. He’d answer “Hardly workin,” and tackle whatever it was, or “Work hard,” and she’d send him to his recliner to relax for a while.

When Republican leaders passed over Rep. Phil Crane for the chairmanship of the House Ways and Means Committee in 2001, it was a clear signal that they didn’t trust him with a prominent role in Congress. Crane might have taken the hint–after three decades of modest achievement in the House, it was time to leave. But he didn’t.

I’ve been waiting for the opportunity to vote against Crane ever since moving to Illinois. Never seemed viable until recently, though. But owing to the massive amount of growth and increased diversity in the suburbs, the formerly lily-white Repub strongholds in the “collar counties” and suburbs ringing Chicago have trended more Democratic… a LOT more democratic. In the last election, when Melissa Bean gave him a bad scare, Crane barely squeaked back into office. This year, she’s got more money, more support, more mojo, and the greatest political fundraising tchotchke ever: “CRANE: The Original Seat Warmer” stadium cushions. They’re sold out, but you can still contribute.

Meanwhile, Crane hasn’t had much to say about the “excessive junket travel” scandal. He’s a social conservative, though his “official” congressional website doesn’t mention that.

And meanwhile, over at eBay, you can buy some wood on the Internets, cheap! Here, a small business owner holds a product sample up during a recent infomercial.

If you do nothing else, scroll down at the auction site and read the Q and A – they are friggin’ hilarious. my husband David and I posted one about whether wood can be used in nuclear, chemical, or biolgical weapons, and we’re anxiously awaiting the answer. I suspect that Jesus’ General has gotten in with a question before us: there is a rather suspicious query about “little soldiers” and whether the questioner’s wife would get splinters.

via Boing Boing but I first ran across it in the comments at Frolic and Detour, blog of Miss Alli’s real-life alter ego, Linda.

Did I call it or what? Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em! Expect the lawn inflatables in stores by the week before Election Day.

The Keith Olbermann (MSNBC) blow-by-blow blogging of the debate last night (linked via the image) is pretty funny – scroll to the bottom and read up to read it in chrono order. He also noted some details about people in the audience and what will probably be Bush’s most inconsequential, but most widely blogged gaffe. All over Blogistan, people are gleefully snarking “He called it ‘the internets!’ Hee, hee!”

And for the record, I’m a baby-boomer, and I got it, so there. If I don’t have a conflict, I’m going to log in to Olbermann’s next blow-by-blow for the final debate.

He caught a lot of the odd little things I did, making me feel way smart (as in S-M-R-T). Such as Bush’s pronunciation of the state as “Missoura.” My mom does that, too, because she lived in St. Louis during the Second World War. One of the post-debate commentators on CNN last night caught it too, and said that it was a “fightin’ word” depending on what part of the state you’re from. I wonder what that’s about?