Some thoughts after (finally) watching Journeys with George yesterday. (1) Never follow campaign as member of press corps. (2) Nothing on the campaign trail is real, everything is prepped, no real discussions, no real people, no real nothing. Everybody in the entourage knows this and complains about it. Why then is this situation stable? Why will the same thing happen in 2004? (3) Bush seems like a nice guy. (4) I outscored GWB on the math SAT, though not on the verbal. (5) It seems that Bush never answers any serious question, but instead disarms every journalist with a little something he knows (The filmer's interest in Newsweek guy, for instance). This alone should be an argument for job rotation among political journalists.

(6) Buckler is still being marketed in the US! (7) The President drinks it!

Yesterday's Astronomy Picture of the Day, today's front page splash.