So I'm trying to be optimistic while watching the State of the Union Address. However, it hasn't even started and I'm already jaded. There have been several money shots of Mrs. Bush...happily situated between a muslim woman and a black man. Oh how melting pot! I wonder if that was at Alito's behest. Maybe they'll all go have burritos afterwards.

And first item on the speech: Martin Luther King Jr.'s widow's passing. JFK would be so proud of you G Dubby-a.

And I should have put money on this: 5 minutes in and he mentioned 9/11. Talk about beating a dead horse. He should be barred from using that topic. If I was a family member of a victim of 9/11, I'd want him barred form using my family's pain relentlessly to create that atmosphere of anxiety and fear that somehow makes his actions plausible.