In case you're wondering what we all do here during the commercial breaks, mostly we just sit around making catty remarks about the outfits you're all wearing at home.

I really think [the Bush Administration]'s foreign policy agenda is to spread irony through the world.

The unfortunate, yet truly exciting thing about your life, is that there is no core curriculum. The entire place is an elective.

9/11 references are like Lay's potato chips...no Congress can make just one.

[If President Bush is right about democracy in Iraq] I may, and I don't know if I can physically do this, implode.

Capote, of course, addressed very similar themes to Good Night and Good Luck. Both films are about determined journalists defying obstacles in a relentless pursuit of the truth. Needless to say, both are period pieces.

The Republican party is the party of nostalgia. It seeks to return America to a simpler, more innocent and moral past that never actually existed. The Democrats are utopians. They seek to create an America so fair and non-judgmental that life becomes an unbearable series of apologies. Together, the two parties function like giant down comforters, allowing a candidate to disappear into the enveloping softness, protecting them from exposure to the harsh weather of independent thought.