Sometime after 7pm Tuesday night, during the Democrats speech-a-thon, the 50,000th visitor checked out the home page of this blog. Small potatoes, I know. Hollywood gossip blogs get that every minute. Still…

Thought you’d like to know. Thank you very much.

Good night, God bless. Sleep tight knowing that some people prefer proselytizing over politics, conversions over conventions, evangelism over entertainment.

Here are some cool quotes:

“Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other.” —Oscar Ameringer

“In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.” —Charles de Gaulle

“Our elections are free—it’s in the results where we eventually pay.” —Bill Stern