Hey, east coasters! Less than 1 hour till Kerry and Colbert go well-coiffed head to well-coiffed head on The Colbert Report! Click here for more info, and to find out what the hell is up with that picture. I will be here in the west, remote poised, quietly envying you until 11:30 PT. NO SPOILERS.

Violet over at the official JK blog wants to know how the Senator can eat ice cream on a stick in a Prius without getting it all over himself. I hope it's because he wanted to look nice for the southwestern fangirl contingent, but it's probably more that it would be really hard to win a Senate seat without well-honed eating in cars skills.

I mean, think about it.

The still-amazing Teresa Heinz Kerry stopped at Democracy Cell Project for today's installment of the still-fun and informative blog tour. And the still-for-sale This Moment On Earth is still, it seems, headed for the best-seller list. Look what I found on my amazon.com sidebar:

And last but not least, my heart just about stopped when I read Liberal Values tonight. Oh. Hot. Damn. Good thing we have this domain for something like 9 years. I'd make "Kerry 2XXX" bumper stickers, but I got rid of my car, because I'm an environmentalist, and also because the engine stopped working. Would it just be too wrong to embroider that on the back of my jeans? This may be a case for Miss Manners….