With the debate in the background (those snappy red patent shoes!) I find myself tearing up reading this about Paul Newman:

At a moment when America feels angry and betrayed, when our leaders have forfeited our trust and jeopardized our future, we lost an American icon who stood for traits that have been in short supply in the Bush administration: shrewdness, humility, decency, generosity, class.

Maureen rocks for her casual use of sesquipedalian in a sentence. And Paul just plain rocked.