It's not often I find myself annoyed by politics, but this two debates on Saturday night shit is just too much.

Haven't I written enough about politics? Already, people are complaining that my blog (which is supposed to be eclectic) is too focused on politics, and for the last three days I've written about politics. Candidates. Political paranoia. conspiracy theories. Ugh! And Ick!

So I thought that I'd take it easy and take a little break last night. No one told me there was a debate, much less two debates. I'm sick of debates, OK? I never liked debates! Why does this process not slow down a bit? Instead, now that I'm tired, it seems to be speeding up.

Precisely the idea. Fortunately (and once again), it's Stephen Green to the rescue, with much-needed humor:

But the candidates (not to mention the pundits) are just plain tired. Yet, after an impossibly long warm-up period, we're at long last getting into the most wide-open race since 1928. Fasten your seat belts, because we're finally due for some fun.

Well, at least Hillary looks as tired as she is.

Clinton needed to knock down Barack Obama and administer a killing blow to John Edwards. She accomplished neither.

Well, Obama may have learned how to look presidential, but hey. Via Glenn Reynolds, I see that Hillary has mastered (should that be "mistressed"?) "the look." What look?

....the "look" every husband has seen a million times - and I am happily married. I showed it to my wife and she agreed. That may not help her with votes from men.

This all provides lots of fun for people who enjoy nice performances. (That people should be more interested in performance in office seems irrelevant to voters right now.)

And things on the Republican side look so bleak that it's fun if you enjoy looking on the dark side. Here's Stephen Green:

The Republican side looks messier than a ten-car pile-up in the parking lot of a health clinic for hemophiliacs. The Iowa winner, Huckabee, is probably a sure loser in New Hampshire. Fred Thompson desperately needs a win anywhere, but it's difficult to see where that win will come. I mean, would even a miracle second-place finish in NH boost him to first place in South Carolina, Nevada, or Michigan? Unlikely. John McCain seems poised to take New Hampshire, and big. But South Carolina was the end of him eight years ago, and doesn't seem ready to propel him to the nomination this time around, either. Rudy Giuliani is counting on Florida to give him the momentum to sweep the big states on Super Duper Tuesday, but the string of losses he's sure to suffer between now and then might just make him into yet another Forgotten Frontrunner. And Romney? As former governor of neighboring Massachusetts, NH voters should know Mitt well. And if they won't go for him, who will? And as Iowa proved, Romney can't buy his way to victory, not even with all his millions. Ron Paul, the guy who has the least chance of winning anywhere for anything, looks set to place a solid third in New Hampshire -- thus muddying the waters even more.

I can't figure out whether I went AWOL last night or whether I was just MIA, but I didn't know about the debate until this morning.

Fortunately, there are plenty of others whose television watching is not limited to Turner Movie Classics, and Glenn Reynolds has a great roundup here.

Finally, God bless Ann Althouse for once again making me feel less guilty:

Sorry not to liveblog. I forgot it was on...