Here’s a question:

Have you ever met a mattress salesperson who didn’t also have a really bad back?

Need some early shopping picks for the holidays?

My wife’s company Splendora just put up their Splendora Holiday Shopping Guide.

And they’re, uh, pretty into shopping over there.

The Murtha pullout plan continues to fuel an angry debate on the hill. Republicans are trying to push a vote on the topic of immediate withdrawal (which almost no one is in favor of).

Dennis Hastert explains: “We want to make sure that we support our troops that are fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan.”

We probably need a more intelligent definition of what it means to support our troops; one that is more closely linked to what our troops are out there to support.

On a purely political level, if this series of debates and arguments leaves us still with the now absurb idea that debating military strategy and foreign policy is somehow treasonous towards the troops, thinking Americans will come out the losers yet again.

Chistopher Dickey shares a very thoughtful Newsweek piece on why Murtha is probably right and why the current policy in Iraq is music to the ears of some of America’s enemies.

Look beyond the buzzwords and the hype surrounding Web 2.0 and you may find that they key differentiator between today’s web and yesterday’s web is that it is now a whole lot cheaper to build a product and get it out in front of potential customers.