Better than I expected, anyway, just the few soft brown spots already noted by Mark & me.  Played to his strengths, hit good conservative bases—earmarks, tort reform, entitlement spending, private-sector-based health care reform, etc.  Still hanging on to the stupid "No Child Left Behind" extravaganza, still weaseling about "no amnesty" and a "temporary worker programs" (described by Charlie Rangel on Dobbs this evening with Charlie's usual delicacy as "the closest thing to slavery I ever saw.")

But what is the tallest building on the West Coast?  Who tried to blow it up?  When?  Did I miss something?  It's the first I've heard of this.

Bernadette wrapped in a sheet of kitchen roll, put out on deck for morning burial.