Tina Fey is brilliant and Poehler plays the perfect foil. Best lines: ***************** Fey as Palin: Katie, I would like to use one of my lifelines. ****************** POEHLER AS COURIC: "On foreign policy, I want to give you one more chance to explain your claim that you have foreign policy experience based on Alaska's proximity to Russia. What did you mean by that?" FEY AS PALIN: "Well, Alaska and Russia are only separated by a narrow maritime border. (using her hands to illustrate) You got Alaska here, this right here is water, and this is Russia. So, we keep an eye on them." POEHLER AS COURIC: "And how do you do that exactly?" FEY AS PALIN: "Every morning, when Alaskans wake up, one of the first things they do, is look outside to see if there are any Russians hanging around. And if there are, you gotta go up to them and ask, 'What are you doing here?' and if they can't give you a good reason, it's our responsibility to say, yo...

According to this AP article I just read the US federal courts have ruled that Bush administration, via the Agriculture Department, has the power to prevent companies from testing more than 1% of their livestock for mad cow disease. For my comments and a re-posting of the article (it's not very long), go here. I can't imagine what Koreans would say about this. I wonder what they would have said if this happened around two months ago!