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A few quick thoughts

1.) Just want to get this down somewhere before the event: I think Dean is going to do pretty good Tuesday (I know - some polls are pointing to this, but a lot of people don't believe it - I do). Either a real solid second, or first actually. I think the scream was over rated, I think the people of Iowa took his old remark about the caucus process to heart, and I think in a regular primary he will do much, much better.

2.) Maureen Dowd has lost her mind - she is ruining all the seemingly good writing she had done in the run up to the war with this silly fixation on what Dean's wife wears, her make up, etc. This is embarrassing stuff - the NY Times is crumbling before our eyes. Sad.

3.) Atrios shouldn't do radio (or TV, or interviews, etc.). Let's not see the real bloggers turn into media whores. Leave that to the... whores, like A. Sullivan. Why go on a show to be sandbagged? Why go on at all? Atrios is the best at what he does, and he should stick to it. Let some other blow hard play the jerk to the other jerks. The whole program "The Blogging of The President" was pretty lame.