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Woke up to the sound and scent of a cool breeze blowing rain through the trees. If you like rainy days, this is a gorgeous one--and with expected high much cooler than average for this time of year. Felt pleasantly drowsy as I thought about the day ahead. I had plans, things I wanted to do before the weekend begins, but no great anxiety about them.

After drinking my first cup of tea of the day, I went down to the kitchen to make some hot cocoa. Hot cocoa and hot tea are very much the beverages for this kind of weather! And I was calmly thinking it might be a good idea to have some toast, maybe fix myself an egg... and then it seemed to me a better idea to calmly walk to the bathroom so I could throw up all the morning's tea.

Bleah. Well, there go my plans for the day. But I still intend to drink this cocoa.

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After Lautenberg, echoing a new MoveOn.org advertising campaign, likened Republican leader Bill Frist (Tenn.) to Palpatine, Sen. Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.), on a visit to the Senate press gallery, was asked what character Democrats represent. "We are the Jedi knights," he replied instantly. "We have the light source."

Frist spokesman Bob Stevenson scoffed at these claims, suggesting the Democrats are in fact led by a floppy-eared outcast from Naboo. If Frist is Palpatine and Democrats are Jedi, Stevenson wondered, "would that make Howard Dean Jar Jar Binks?"

It is a question worthy of the world's greatest deliberative body.