Evening eats

a. The Top 10 Risers of the decade. The Top 10 Fallers.

b. David Frum thinks Pawlenty might have a religion problem -- more specifically, a religious trajectory problem.

c. Mitch Daniels talks about 2009.

d. Palin conflates and spins.

e. Bob Bennett, party-animal.

f. Gloria Allred praises Jenny Sanford.

g. Hutchison doesn't want Paul Burka on the debate panel.

h. Steve Poizner follows through.

i. My fav Christmas carol and one of my fav singers.



j. Sports stuff. It's been two days since Vinny Del-Negro should have been fired, three days since Mike Tomlin was almost fired, and 20 years since Billy Joel said we didn't start the fire.