Top Comments: Distractions

So I volunteered to write tonight's diary - and I had to work all day, which meant I was without intertube access all day (job training things). Anyway, I get home and I'm all ready to start writing my fabulous Top Comments diary, and then I read that Al Gore is endorsing Barack Obama tonight!! And so of course I'm watching that...and I'm too distracted to actually write an effective Top Comments diary.

I hope you will all be able to forgive me - but Al Gore and Barack Obama on stage...together...it's like - well, let's just say that a year and a half ago, this was my dream team. It's still my dream team today. Oh, if only Al Gore would partner up with Barack :-)

I know, I know...pipe dreams.

Here are your Top Comments:

From TigerMom:

This comment, from melvin, on Bush's "farewell tour" gave me quite the chuckle this morning.

From vertexoflife:

These two comments, from CJB and mcfly, reveal the "dKos cycle of death," among much hilarity.

This comment thread is absolutely meta-licious and hilarious, thanks to Kyril and Moody Loner.

From MissLaura:

Clem Yeobright highlights a shift in the composition of the rec list.

From lineatus:

As I was once again longing for a smite button, one respondant suggested it would be nice to have one in real life. juliewolf knows why that is probably a bad idea.

From Black Sheep 1:

This comment, by just Nowhere Man is too good.

From bubbanomics:

Gotta love edscan.  Today's "Democracy" was a model of ed-ku brilliance... tickling the edges of understandability, bulging full of inuendo, and flaming with the fire of righteous anger.  With a smattering of serious, "WTF?", and edhead fanmail making up the comments, edscan revisited to recognize the difficulty of his own predicament.

And one more of those rare edscan comment sightings!

From noweasels:

LOL!!  I thought I was old!  sardonyx, Carnacki, dadanation and betson08 wax poetic about the early days of blogging in a terrific thread.

Donkey Underpants had this to say about anonymity on the Internets; bindle's response is priceless.

From Carnacki:

mcjoan learned to drive the same way I did.

Patriot Daily News Clearinghouse's comment that prompted mcjoan's driving reply.

From Elise (that would be me):

Muzikal203 brings us some thoughts on the Gore endorsement, from Kermit

droogie6655321 (what sort of user name is this, droogie...every time I nominate you I have to go back and look up all these numbers! Are you trying to pick up chicks by leaving your digits? Sorry...distracted!) drops a comment that many DKos readers will love, mmmm Gore. Sinister Rae leaves a few more Gore Pics in response.

Kentucky Kat posts a wedding poem, Why Marriage

And can I just say, I love Kossacks! Gay and Lesbian couples can marry in California - and Kossacks want to know where to send gifts! Humbolt Jodi will marry tomorrow and her suggestion is really very thoughtful. Read all the comments there because there are a few organizations you can donate to!

Give some mojo to BeninSC for compiling your Top Mojo tonight!

Top Mojo - excluding search-identifiable tip jars and first diary comments (top 22 tonight of each plus ties):

1 Pardon my typos by SlyDi - 294
2 Who is shitting on whom, Melody? by Seneca Doane - 209
3 Actually, I said to grow the fuck up... by Melody Townsel - 164
4 there is no doubt this is the correct decision by wade norris - 159
5 No, Anton, I come from a race of immortals by Seneca Doane - 151
6 Well until one "Grows. The. Fuck. Up." by Seneca Doane - 127
7 John Paul Stevens.... HERO by ratmach - 122
8 I didn't write this, the facebook group did by Pelcan - 121
9 Dude by DHinMI - 117
10 have you ever lost anyone? by AntonBursch - 113
11 She's an emergency room nurse? by anastasia p - 109
12 If it's any consolation by trashablanca - 109
13 Thank you for this by Keith Olbermann - 104
14 Plus as Jon Stewart says, it's obviously by SensibleShoes - 104
15 One can hardly be cheesy enough by lgmcp - 100
16 This is very important by Noisy Democrat - 99
17 You've neglected one by Dave Brown - 97
18 Yes, but are they "calm and civilized"? by Tracker - 96
19 It looks like he gave an effective & appropriate by ancblu - 89
20 Speaking of GREEN by Muzikal203 - 85
21 This place has become by TocqueDeville - 81
22 Wow. You've brought me to tears. by StrangeAnimals - 79
23 Congratulations! by ultimatically - 78
24 I wish I knew what to say to you by Dave Brown - 77
25 The General Rocks. by chrisblask - 75
26 Daily Kes by kestrel9000 - 74
27 dkos cycle of death by mcfly - 72
28 You are like...Soooooo wrong. by environmentalist - 70
29 If memory serves by nailbender - 69
30 Soldiers not knowing what they are sacrificing by Virginian in Spain - 68

Top Mojo - everything included:

1 This is my tip jar by davefromqueens - 718
2 tipped by GregMitch - 662
3 I, for one, will miss Russert's passion... by Melody Townsel - 546
4 Tips? by kat68 - 511
5 Tips / Recs by kubla000 - 441
6 Tips to Gore! by Hope08 - 425
7 This just in by Shaun Appleby - 408
8 Pardon my typos by SlyDi - 294
9 A Research Posse Assignment by dengre - 268
10 Make a call. by MsSpentyouth - 264
11 Tips for Equality! by Humboldt Jodi - 246
12 Who is shitting on whom, Melody? by Seneca Doane - 209
13 FAQ by TocqueDeville - 187
14 fascinating analysis. by Rick Winrod - 181
15 Actually, I said to grow the fuck up... by Melody Townsel - 164
16 there is no doubt this is the correct decision by wade norris - 159
17 Blessings on your union. May it prosper. n/t by Kimball Cross - 153
18 No, Anton, I come from a race of immortals by Seneca Doane - 151
19 Together by Larry Kissell - 140
20 Nice by Larry Madill - 139
21 Well until one "Grows. The. Fuck. Up." by Seneca Doane - 127
22 John Paul Stevens.... HERO by ratmach - 122
23 I didn't write this, the facebook group did by Pelcan - 122
24 Dude by DHinMI - 117
25 have you ever lost anyone? by AntonBursch - 113
26 You wanna play? .... err, Tip Jar!! by PhillyGal - 110
27 If it's any consolation by trashablanca - 110
28 She's an emergency room nurse? by anastasia p - 109
29 Tipped and recced. A powerful, but damned by rontun - 109
30 Plus as Jon Stewart says, it's obviously by SensibleShoes - 105