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I don't think I would have a problem with Chris Christie and I am not completely familiar with all his positions. But he is from NJ which is as close to being from NY as you can without being from NY, and that goes a long way with me. He did one thing last year which I sort of saw both sides to it. They wanted to build a new tunnel from Hoboken to the city because traffic is so horrendous, it would make commuting easier, actually create jobs, and be a boon to the neighborhoods where all the activity would be. But he stopped it because the NY/NJ Port Authority can't be trusted with two cents. It's been ten years and the world trade center still isn't up. I don't like what he says in defense of Romney but he, like Rudy, I can trust to not be a Jesus freak worrying about who wants an abortion and who is sleeping with who. I don't think he can win since in over 200 years there has yet to be an obese president to my knowledge.

Romney is very progressive! He will say whatever he has to for his how progress. No seriously, it is hard to say what Romney actually is because if he turned around and ran for mayor of NYC he would without hesitation flip all his positions again. This is the heart of his election difficulties, you just look at him and you know he is full of [!@#$%^&*] and will say just about anything to get a vote. He's like the anti-Ron Paul.

Conservative columnist David Brooks summed up the plight of the republican party in this week's Times:

Some republican will show up to call you a socialist out to control our lives for saying this. In Sarah Palin's America it's every man for himself and if you need a doctor you can barter chickens for maybe some help. And if your daughter needs birth control tell her to hold an aspirin between her knees. As Rush Limbaugh informed us anyone who wants birth control is a slut and should run their sex tapes online so we can at least get something for our money for financiing their sex. Your high falutin' snobbish college grad socialist ideas (Rick Santorum told me all about you) are not welcome here, now quick pass me a semi automatic so I can go hunting. I know my rights!

George Will may be a personality challenged wet blanket, but sometimes he gets off a good line <object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" id="+id+" width="440" height="284" codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/swflash.cab"><param name="movie" value="http://embed.crooksandliars.com/v/MjM1NzEtNTUwMzc?color=C93033" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="quality" value="high" /><param name="wmode" value="transparent" /><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /><embed src="http://embed.crooksandliars.com/v/MjM1NzEtNTUwMzc?color=C93033" quality="high" wmode="transparent" width="440" height="284" allowfullscreen="true" name="clembedMjM1NzEtNTUwMzc" align="middle" quality="high" allowScriptAccess="always" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer"></embed></object> It's so rare to hear a conservative on TV make sense.

All the states want to be first, but I think they all would have more influence by staggering them 5 a week regionally for 10 weeks. (CA could be its own region because of the size of the contest). IN 1968 Bobby Kennedy was shot at the CA primary in June. Today a state would go into political and party revolt if it had to wait that long to weigh in.

GLEE got me in the mood for this song this week. It might be the hookiest, catchiest girl group 60s song of all <iframe width="480" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/fq5nFw1YjXg" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

I don't remember the exact details but I don't think it was possible the network to be the badguys with the Star Jones thing. I forget exactly what was going on, but she was garnering headlines on the gossip pages for quite a while because of the shameless way she used the show to make a buck off her wedding, and then I think she got into a bit of controversy when she lied on the air about how she lost weight. I think ABC decided she was too controversial and then she quit and blasted them all in interviews And I could swear there is something about Barbara Walters having an affair with a politician that was somehow connected to this, perhaps Jones commented on it. She could be black, white, or polka dotted, she was still the wrong kind of celebrity who was famous for all the wrong reasons. She was like Kathie Lee Gifford II, thriving on controversy and using the TV show as her own little playground.

Rick Santorum is some throwback to Salem, Mass. It is just sickening how 50 years ago the country was afraid of electing a pope, and today republicans insist on it. It shows you just how radically to the right the republican party has become that now they aren't even the tiniest bit ashamed to be invoking Satan into politics--and the sheep eat it up. A hundred years from now people will look back on this time as a very dark period in American culture. This is why I try not to leave Manhattan.

This was the best episode ever I think. The whole Karofsky saga was really sad and I really expected him to die. His entire two year story has come to a perfect conclusion I think. But the end...Glee is now Dallas!!! Quinn is the new Pam Ewing, I loved it. It has been serialized all along in a season one Knots Landingish kind of way, but now it is full blown soap. The only false note was Sebastian's sudden turnaround. I loved that flashback to Sebastian and Karofsky, but he turned too easily I think.

<iframe width="640" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/vgFAq9Q8l8U" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> I think it is nice he didn't know the song but learned it just to pay tribute to someone he didn't really overlap with musically at all. And the crowd reaction was nice when they all realized what he was singing. This touched me more than the others I have seen for some reason.

According to Paul, his strongest precinct didn't even caucus because the Maine establishment didn't want a headline Romney loses. That fake Iowa win was important, and Santorum being crowned winner came too late. What would have been the effect if Romney lost Maine on top of last week's losses? That's why, according to Paul, his strongest county didn't caucus. Paul, like Jesse Jackson, Pat Buchanan and every other candidate who was more about his issues than winning should of course stay in the race. Agree or disagree with Paul, but it is his anti-war stance that will tilt the republican party away from a war a day to keep the Ayatollah away philosophy. Ron Paul is the only candidate in either party who is anti-war and that is a voice that deserves to be heard from now til doomsday. And it is a disgrace he is the only anti-war candidate because he is a fringe nut on so many issues. He is the only candidate that will tell people the US overthrew the elected Iranian government in 1953 and set up a puppet dictatorship so of course when they had a revolution they would hate us. And he is the only candidate who will tell people "Iran wants nukes because we did not attack North Korea". His justification for staying in the race is because he has truth to say on many subjects. (Ok, he is an Israel-hating, white supremacist and a whack job who would probably destroy the country as he shut down every piece of government he could find, but nobody's perfect)

Did she make the interviewer call her "Miss Franklin"?

This has a lot to do with the collapse of top 40 and the fracturing of radio. When Wham! had a hit with "wake me up before you go go" it was heard everywhere and people young and old would be exposed to it, and from all demographics. And the beauty of top 40 was you could get Madonna and then suddenly Barbra Streisand right after her because everyone had to duke it out on the same chart and the stations played it no matter what the genre. That's how I, a jewish kid with no exposure to rap, hip hop or anything similar growing up (except Blondie's "Rapture") can still word for word go through "Planet Rock" and just as easily sing "you light up my life". And kids just don't get that today. I think the last songs to truly saturate culture were probably "I want it that way" "iivin la vida loca" and "smooth" by Santana. LMFAO did have that really popular song last year but that would be like 1/100th of the radio airplay something like "Every Breath You Take" got. Now that was a song there was just no escaping.

I prefer the Debbie Boone version. The song had a very strong and memorably melody that didn't need any tinkering at all to be catchy and Whitney sort of oversung it and embellished parts that didn't need any help.

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The only Madonna song I have on my iPod is still one of her catchiest I think, if not the catchiest <iframe width="640" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/9N6jHsAU63g" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

I am not setting a standard. They should sing, and then we should listen and either we enjoy their singing or we don't. I realize Madonna wants to put on a spectacle and she does, but maybe slightly less spectacular so she can sing and not be out of breath would be a good idea. You start with Madonna and you make allowances for the dancing and razzle dazzle, you then wind up saying "well it's Britney" and sooner or later you wind up at Milli Vanilli.

You want to hear them sing, not mime to a track. Lip synching is the refuge for those not good enough to sing live. If they could sing it live, they would. They are singers afterall, or so they would have us believe.

Well, she doesn't have a great voice, and her songs now tend to be these overproduced computer generated sounding garbage forgettable songs. I imagine her setlist this weekend will be mostly stuff from the 90s and earlier. I don't think the vocals on that cheerleader song even sound human, let alone sound like Madonna.

I thought it was a great episode. Everything looked great and the songs really served the story. Was this Quinn's last episode? It looked awful like a farewell to me given what she said on the episode <iframe width="640" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/TKOlnoZpd_A" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> Sebastian has taken a turn toward evil. I guess they had to come up with something to write Darren Criss out. His duet with Santana was pretty decent. I love Santana though in just about any setting. Speaking of, Darren Criss did a good job with the dancing and physical stuff on his song.

Cool promo. I like that the mean father is going to have a more prominent role. That one scene where he was cutting up the deer or whatever that was was fascinating. Here he is, clearly the richest man alive and he likes being a butcher basically.

I could swear that was Anne Logan's son. I sort of feel bad for DM because this was unearthed just to humiliate her obviously, and it probably was just eccentric innocence run amok. Rose Kelly, get singing lessons!

Dan wasn't killed. That was a really cool scene though. Dan had found the proof that Luke's oil wells were fishy and he had to be silenced before he told Luke. http://youtu.be/NKjy_OrnhS0 It is one of the earliest scenes I remember from watching GH. Soaps just can't or won't be so melodramatic these days. It's corny but it is fun.