Like Ned Beatty in Deliverace...

In celebration of the battles between Atrios (won't blogroll me), Kevin Drum (won't blogroll me) and Matthew Yglesias (won't blogroll me), Holden of First Draft and I are staging our own fight -- you may choose to view this as a couple of guys running and doing all sorts of ineffective slappings, or you can have us captioning. I'd take the latter.

I'm ready for the dueling banjos...

Holden shot first, now here is mine:


"Hmmm, speaking of mandate, does the carpet match the lack of drapes?"