Read These Now as Shoes Make Us Happy

Ok kids, Mister Petulant is going on a road trip for a long weekend. I will be incommunicado, but I hear that hotels have a new fangled invention called wireless Internet access, so I might emerge with another pictorial of rest area toilets.

Yesterday I was having a conversation with the blog mistress of Shakesville about the always timely topic of SHOES! I proclaimed at one point, "Shouldn't we be discussing politics?!" Hell to the no kids! Sometimes, hell, all the time this election cycle, a pleasant superficial discussion keeps us sane. Shakesville's Queen is particularly fond of these and I hear she is growing a bit older soon. (HINT!) I think she would be fabulous in these or these, but that might be projection on my part.

Though I would love to post about shoes for this entire post, I guess I should link to something more substantial. Sigh.

Bush's Third Climate-Change Fake-Out. (WP) Bush is so predictable Froomkin can write his post before Bush even took to the podium.

Worst Offenders For Carbon Dioxide Emissions: Top 20 US Counties Identified.

There was another debate last night and I did not watch, AS I HAVE WATCHED TOO MANY and bitterness (the word of the week) and attacks apparently ensued. Perhaps I should have. Oh well, this boy packs like a fiend and yearns for those bygone days of steamer trunk travel. Benjamin Grumbles save me! I am sure all the Top Blogs will have video and hopefully not be too slanted with commentary. There does seem to be a consensus that Charlie Gibson and George Stephanopolous are the worst moderators in the history of mankind. Wow! Tim Russert dethroned. The world might honestly end. RUN, RUN, RUN to your parent's or grandparent's bomb shelters. I hear Veg-All lasts for decades.

Return of the Dandy.

Iceland first to feel the blast of global cooling; tiny country is like a canary in a coalmine signalling crises in toxic economies.

Oh no! America's favorite Representative is having problems keeping staff. Where's Katherine Harris to rescue poor Michelle? Oops... maybe not much of a help. Those ladies should unite and create real fodder for the masses.

"The Justice Department's inspector general confirmed Tuesday that he is looking into whether a department lawyer was dismissed over a rumor that she is a lesbian." (NPR)

"Local Nashvillian and host of The Remix, a popular Christian youth show, Azariah Southworth, announced today that he has come out." (Out & About)

Forget the Birds and the Bees -- Kids Are Asking About IVF, Transgender Pregnancy and STDs.

Ahhhh... poor babies, excuse me, fruit flies. Fittest Males Don't Always Get The Girl.

Torchwood cards on sale.

"Hazel Court, a British beauty who co-starred with the likes of Boris Karloff and Vincent Price in horror movies of the 1950s and '60s, has died. She was 82." (Yahoo)