(OK, OK. I’m back. I have three hour class on Wednesday and it pretty much kills Tuesday and Wednesday.)

So, I’m catching up on real news. There’s nothing like being in a classroom discussing politics, while real politics is happening elsewhere and you can’t get to the computer to find out what’s going on. When two planes hit the world trade center a few miles away from me, I was totally clueless because I was giving a quiz in an American Politics class at Hunter College. The classroom bubble.

I have to say, as someone with a last name that begins with a Mc, that I frown on all trashing of fine Irish surnames. No more McPalin or McPain or McMoron. No, not here. It’s very low, obvious humor.

Though after reading about McCain backing out of the debates on Friday, the only thing that comes to mind is McAsshole.