Is this the day when you finally agree with Pat Buchanan on something? On one hand, while it's unseemly to wish death on anyone, the idea of a world without Pat Buchanan is sort of lovely. But on the other hand, the idea of Pat Buchanan not living to be incensed over a female President is not a world I care to…

Hollywood producers have proposed a West Wing meets Northern Exposure reality show about Sarah Palin. Somehow, we obtained a storyboard for the first episode submitted to the networks earlier this week...and its surprisingly up to date!

• Wow: there are apparently conservatives suggesting that Judge Sonia Sotomayor's enjoyment of traditional Puerto Rican food will impact her ability to be a mouth-breathing, lock-step conservative justice in the grand school of Clarence "Oral Arguments Are Nap Times" Thomas. [TalkingPointsMemo]

• This week's New York Times Magazine cover story on Obama's first hundred days doesn't look exceptionally celebratory. It looks more like, "This is what 100 days as President will do to you." [NY Times]

To try to come in like a lamb and go out like a lion, today Ana Marie Cox and I talk puppies, pedicures, Elvira, Bill Kristol, and the death of journalism. Do lions cry?