using the word

8:45PM McCain points out that many in his party don’t like him. Good to show differentiation with Bush but highlights why he couldn’t whip the House GOP on the bailout.

8:43PM: It’s not that hard to fix Social Security? Really? AARP hello?

Mark Mays thinks Sarah Palin’s girl-next-door performance was a put on:

I've been listening to news anchors use the word "hubris" throughout the night regarding the possible bad day ahead for us on Wall Street. I noticed a lot of the anchors used the word incorrectly, and clearly didn't know the meaning of the word.

Jon Wright noticed an interesting little dance speechwriters did around elements of Cindy McCain biography:

I’m not really sure what to say about McCain’s speech … his job was to sound like really just a decent guy and gosh he loves his country, to convince us that he’s really not a douchebag like all those other Republicans … and I suppose, superficially, in the during, he almost pulled it off.

The LPGA is getting into the intolerance act by requiring its golfers to communicate only in English. It may or may not have the intended effect:

Well lemme tell ya.

It's SO bad, I read everything in my Reader (oh yes I did) and then kept going back yesterday over and over, looking to see if someone, anyone, had posted something new.