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I hope everyone had a great holiday season and is ready to take on 2007. Let's assume that it's going to be a banner year for everybody. Self-fulfilling prophecies and all that.

There's not a whole lot to write about at the moment. Everyone seems to be happy and busy right now. As of January 4th, I'm still keeping to my resolutions. That might be a record for me.

23/6 explains why liberal Obama supporters are so entrhalled by the idea of the populist conservative Senator Jim Webb as Veep:

It appears that Tom Brokaw got the nod to replace Tim Russert on MTP until the election.

Mediabistro reports:

So, it turns out that the medical world has discovered recently that the clitoris is huge.  A huge triangle of pulsating, vibrating, pleasure-giving, becoming-engorged-iating nerves and tissue just twsting and turning and dancing around constantly in our lacey underthings.

Revelations

Could a Veep nod from Obama be the way back into politics for Al Gore:

Bruce Barry highlights Richard Lawson's utter confusion of the concept of conflict of interest, effectively slicing and dicing the flaws in the latter's logic at PiTW.

Last night, one hotel guest says to another:

"He speaks well, but I don't think America's ready for a black president."

Seriously. I cringed when I'd hear that talk even a few months ago, but I was able to understand that some folks still thought that way. But now? After he beat Clinton for the Democratic nomination nod?

Fred Thompson is neck and neck with David Petraus in the Veepstakes contest going on over at MSNBC.

As of this posing Fred is leading narrowly 51%-49%. Lamar Alexander, the victim of a bad draw, is holding his own with a respectable 39% against Tim Pawlenty,  seen by many as a legitimate frontrunner for the nod.