It’s DNC time!! Have you heard?  The DNC is in town!  Yes, for those of you under a rock, at the bottom of the ocean, or trapped Marlena-style in the grips of an evil Italian, let me alert you to the fact that the Democratic National Committee is convening in Denver right now. (So, are we.)  Hillary spoke last night; Bill and Biden are headlining tonight’s events, and everyone but everyone is talking about the Dems, potential rifts within the party, how crazy Hillary supporters would be to create a rift in the party, how great Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer’s speech was, how great Michele Obama’s speech was, how great Biden’s speech is going to be, how great Obama’s speech is going to be, how cute the Obama girls are… you get the picture. Today’s big news seems to be that the roll call (or, “formal nomination”) won’t be in prime time… IMHO: good.

In other news: there may or may not be another Presidential candidate running.  We’ll let you know more about that next week.

The Coen brothers unveiled a new “dark comedy” at the Venice Film Festival.  This is their first comedy since The Ladykillers, which you probably didn’t see.  In my mind, the Coen brothers can do no wrong, but I’ll be interested to see if a George Clooney, Brad Pitt “dark comedy” does well at the BO.

Possible Hurricane Gustav is threatening the Gulf Coast (read: it’s sometime between late August and late September).

Oil went back up! Finally!  Those two days last week when the price dropped practically wiped out my savings…

Maybe it went up because Georgia and Russia are still fighting over a piece of land that’s 3,900 square miles and poor as dirt.  And, yay! America is joining in!  Although, NPR was reporting yesterday that South Ossettians already think that American troops (just black American troops?  Didn’t that become illegal about 75 years ago?) were involved in the initial invasion.  Yikes.

And, finally: the Red Sox and the Yankees will be playing tonight on ESPN as the NYYs try to retake second place in the AL East.  On behalf of Mets, Angels, A’s, White Sox, Cubs, Padres, Rangers and Royals fans and anyone else who cares to join in: thank you and congratulations, Tampa Bay!