well, in the haze of an early-morning hangover, i agree with basically everything tommy said last night, and i apologize for my insane sweet potato rantings. i honestly thought bush had pulled out a narrow win, simply because the contrast between his performance in this debate and the other two was, like, impossibly better. but i'm thrilled to be proved wrong by instant poll reactions. however, bush did have a few moments that creeped the hell out of me: when he tried to make a joke to bob about not trusting leading news organizations, realized it was a total and complete flop, and then muttered, "eh, well, nevermind..."; every time he laughed his smirky "ha ha ha" laugh that sounded completely forced; and the time he responded to a question (i think it was about health care, and bob scheiffer was asking who he thought was responsible for the health care crisis) and bush was all like, "heh heh, well, i hope it's not my administration!" wtf? worst answer ever.

anyway, i was too busy making the sweet potatoes and anticipating "lost" to really care about the debates. i have to say, i have become completely addicted to "lost". jj abrams has done it again! last night's episode was the strongest so far, i thought. knife dude (super rudy, as tommy likes to call him, in reference to rudy from survivor) is an awesome and extremely sympathetic character (his name is john locke, make of that what you will); the leading man and lady, while totally acting and looking exactly like every other leading man and lady from a jj abrams series (felicity and ben from "felicity", sydney and vaugh from "alias"), are kickass, capable, and likeable. you've got several other interesting characters around which storylines can be built and information can be revealed through flashbacks. then there's the freaky-not-a-dinosaur-thing that's stomping around the island. we have really got to get some sort of bet going on what it might be. not a polar bear; not a dinosaur; any ideas? alien? god himself? government superkilling robot? also: how the fuck did the polar bear get there?

anyway. i need to go browse some conspiracy theory boards and be all nerdy about this show. there are some super awesome and intelligent theories over there:

Well this is interesting...an elephant could toss a person pretty far...what I was wondering is why the creature, whatever it is, did not eat the pilot? An elephant wouldn't eat a human, but it could sure kill one. What if the previous plane/boat (whatever) that crashed was carrying circus animals?

ok here is a theory what if it is just one persons dream he is on the plane he goes to sleep and dreams the whole thing when you close your eyes you can see as many people you want to and stay as long as you want to all in a 3 min dream just a thought