As you can see from the crudely pasted banner below...

Today is that day of days, National Gorilla Suit Day.

And...predicatably, Channel Zero has gone completely over the top in respect of this modest holiday.

Meanwhile...Senator John McCain

comes in for a solid debunking from this useful website.
Many thanks to the gang over at Toughenough.org for the link, glad to see they are keeping up their anti-McCain bona fides.

Note to New Hampshire Primary Voters...

of all persuasions.
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is allegedly facing a budget deficit whose estimate runs as a high as a billion big ones...whatever it is, it is a lot of moolah.
Yet even as I write this, Former Massachusetts Governor Willard Mitt Romney stumps the Granite State proclaiming himself to be a hairy chested he-man fiscal conservative.
That billion or so in red ink flows despite the Governor's line item veto and the tacit alliance Romney had with such notorious Beacon Hill conservatives as then House Speaker Tom Finnegan.
Now no doubt, Willard will blame the state legislature for any bad news emanating from Boston and vicinity, but that is an excuse...not an answer.
Anyway if those deficits are really all the legislature's fault, then that doesn't speak well for Mitt's leadership skills. However if Romney couldn't reign in the entirely provincial democrats of Massachusetts how will he fare against serious playas like Harry Reid and Ted Kennedy?
Think about that.

Isn't it funny,

In today's column, Jeff Jacoby argues that health care premiums are too low and are unfairly subsidized by private companies that offer said benefits to their employees.
The private citizen should pay more this will lead to more competition and diversity sayeth Jeff with an oracular sneer.
Pay more?
Wow...Like we aren't paying enough already.
This is funny, we don't shell out enough for health insurance, but if Jeff's state income tax went up so much as one red cent this year, you can bet he'd scream like an infant on vaccination day.

Funny how that works eh?

Moreover, if Jeff thinks negotiating one on one with an insurance company for health care coverage is a good thing, then surely he has opted out of the Globe's health benefits plan with his head held high?
At the very least he ought to set an example for the poor pampered troglodytes of Massachusetts and bravely march down to his local Mom-n-Pop Insurance Agency and try to get a better rate than what the Globe offers.
might make for an interesting column.

Diane over at Tough Enough

Seems pretty busted up about Senator Kerry's disavowal of the Presidential race in '08.
Why not drop her a kind note in the comments section....yes and I do mean, a kind note sans ugliness and triumphalism.

Amidst our disappointment over JK's withdrawl yesterday...

let no one forget that Terry McAuliffe, who criticizes our Junior Senator's performance in '04 is coming to Northeastern tonight to shill his new book "What A Party: How I took the Democrats off a cliff without breaking a sweat".
Anyone out there who is going, whether you are for Kerry or against him, for the sake of clarity ask Terry about his own crippling electoral losses in 2000 and then again in 2002?
I'm sure his response won't make a lick of sense but as a means to remind him someone other than Tim Russert is watching it'll work like a charm.