Ah, tonight’s the night when good boys and girls all over the world will be putting their beer mugs in the freezer, hoping to awake in the morning to find them filled with Guinness or Smithwicks or Harp or Macardle, or something equally yummy. Those who have been bad this year will find their mugs filled with Budweiser.

Speaking of bad boys, our Irish Attorney General, Albert O’Gonzales finds himself more and more alone as one Republican after another tries to throw him under the bus. I just hope they don’t stop with him. This is an abuse of the office of the president, and exactly what the founders meant by “high crimes.” Unfortunately, the government moves at such a snail’s pace, two years is way too short a time to get the bastard out of there (and really, if Cheney isn’t out first, things could get even scarier than they are now).

Time to get the water board out, I think.