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You can mine for comments when you are sleep-deprived or when you are having a McBushesque enraged moment. Don't put off until tomorrow what you can do today!! Send those comments in!

The best laid schemes o’ mice an’ men gang aft a-gley. In other words, where did the day go?? I had plans of spending all day writing this, but... well, let's get inside and see what the Muse provided...

Welcome to Top Comments, that daily space where we recognize comments made in the past 24 hours that for whatever reason are just too good to let fall by the wayside.

If you find a notable comment during the day click the date/time stamp to get a direct link, copy it then send to topcomments at gmail dot com by 9:30PM Eastern! Don't forget to include your screen name so we can credit you! Anyone can submit comments- if you didn't do so today, please give it a try tomorrow!

Mining for comments is patriotic! Even more so than slapping a magnet on your car! Don't worry- you can mine for comments when you are sleep-deprived! Please demonstrate that you are a patriotic Kossack and send those comments in!

I wondered if it would happen. I actually was pretty sure it would happen. Told others, even, that this would come to pass. I just didn't know it would happen to me. I've been reading all of the helpful diaries on Senators Clinton and Obama, and I now know...

Welcome to Top Comments, that daily space where we recognize comments made in the past 24 hours that for whatever reason are just too good to let fall by the wayside.

If you find a notable comment during the day click the date/time stamp to get a direct link, copy it then send to topcomments at gmail dot com by 9:30PM Eastern! Don't forget to include your screen name so we can credit you! Anyone can submit comments- if you didn't do so today, please give it a try tomorrow!

Mining for comments is patriotic! Even more so than slapping a magnet on your car! Don't worry- you can mine for comments when you are sleep-deprived! Please demonstrate that you are a patriotic Kossack and send those comments in!

Brillig, Brillig, Democrat not-a Whig, how does your garden grow?

(before you knock my poetry, consider: do you have any idea how hard it is to rhyme my name???! :-))

Hiya!! It's that time of the week (otherwise known as Tuesday night Eastern) and time for DIDS. You regulars know DIDS is short for Damn, I Did Something. It's that chance we all crave, to tell everyone the large, small, glorious and mundane things we DID in the past week.

I'll be your substitute host for the evening! While talking to the DIDSman himself yesterday, I casually said "Hey, if you ever want a fill-in host again, let me know." Well, let it never be said that he doesn't make wishes come true... :-)

So what DIDS I do recently? Let's see...

Welcome to Top Comments, that daily space where we recognize comments made in the past 24 hours that for whatever reason are just too good to let fall by the wayside.

If you find a notable comment during the day click the date/time stamp to get a direct link, copy it then send to topcomments at gmail dot com by 9:30PM Eastern! Don't forget to include your screen name so we can credit you! Anyone can submit comments- if you didn't do so today, please give it a try tomorrow!

Mining for comments is patriotic! Even more so than slapping a magnet on your car! Why do those of you who read but who do not send them in hate America your TC diarist du jour?  Please demonstrate that you are a patriotic Kossack, and mail those comments in today!

One year ago, I was in mourning. Today, I can look back, and remember a man gone too soon, but more importantly a friendship I am blessed to have...

Welcome to Top Comments, that daily space where we recognize comments made in the past 24 hours that for whatever reason are just too good to let fall by the wayside.

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Mining for comments is rumored to boost your immune system's ability to fight concern trolls. (disclaimer: This product will not provide you with additional donuts to share. Not FDA approved. See your doctor if side effects last more than four hours)

Please take charge of your health and mail those comments in today!

I have managed to avoid, so far, getting sick this winter. I've had a cold, but not anything more serious. Yes, I say this while holding a container of antiseptic handwash in one hand and a packet of AirBorne in the other :-). What about you? ...

Welcome to Top Comments, that daily space where we recognize comments made in the past 24 hours that for whatever reason are just too good to let fall by the wayside.

If you find a notable comment during the day click the date/time stamp to get a direct link, copy it then send to topcomments at gmail dot com by 9:30PM Eastern! Don't forget to include your screen name so we can credit you! Anyone can submit comments- if you didn't do so today, please give it a try tomorrow!

Mining for comments is rumored to boost your immune system's ability to fight concern trolls. (disclaimer: This product will not provide you with additional donuts to share. Not FDA approved. See your doctor if side effects last more than four hours)

Please take charge of your health and mail those comments in today!

I am soooooo not gonna write about Nader. Not giving him the space he doesn't deserve. Nope, not a single word. Which, I suppose, means I just wrote about Nader. On the flip, is my not-Nader writing...

Welcome to Top Comments, that daily space where we recognize comments made in the past 24 hours that for whatever reason are just too good to let fall by the wayside.

If you find a notable comment during the day click the date/time stamp to get a direct link, copy it then send to topcomments at gmail dot com by 9:30PM Eastern! Don't forget to include your screen name so we can credit you! Anyone can submit comments- if you didn't do so today, please give it a try tomorrow!

Mining for comments is rumored to lower blood pressure raised by overreading of Obama vs Clinton diaries. Sometimes even one diary is too many. Please take charge of your health and mail those comments in today!

It's school vacation week here in Massachusetts, and as part of my carefully crafted week o'fun desperation move to keep Kid Brillig from watching every last episode of "Drake & Josh", we grabbed a friend and her family and hightailed it to...

Hiya!! First off- sorry for the lateness of today's DIDS... small misunderstanding on my part.  It's now that time of the week (otherwise known as Tuesday night) and time for DIDS. You regulars know DIDS is short for "Damn, I Did Something." It's that chance we all crave, to tell everyone the large, small, glorious and mundane things we DID in the past week.

I hope everyone who could vote today, DID. At this very moment, I am sitting in the Wellstone Donkey Democratic Club in Second Life, listening to live streams of the coverage and talking with over 30 of my fellow Democrats. Gonna be here all night!

Join me on the flip for my DIDS, which is also my daughter's DIDS...

Welcome to Top Comments, that daily space where we recognize comments made in the past 24 hours that for whatever reason are just too good to let fall by the wayside.

If you find a notable comment during the day click the date/time stamp to get a direct link, copy it then send to topcomments at gmail dot com by 9:30PM Eastern! Don't forget to include your screen name so we can credit you! Anyone can submit comments- if you didn't do so today, please give it a try tomorrow!

Mining for comments is rumored to lower blood pressure raised by overreading of candidate diaries. Sometimes even one diary is too many. Please take charge of your health and mail those comments in today!

I love music. Listening to it either live or on my handy-dandy iPod, dancing to it in Second Life at any of a zillion clubs, making it myself with voice or drums... I am never without it. It's an ever-present accompaniment to the story that is my life. Step inside to see what that soundtrack contains...

Welcome to Top Comments, that daily space where we recognize comments made in the past 24 hours that for whatever reason are just too good to let fall by the wayside.

If you find a notable comment during the day click the date/time stamp to get a direct link, copy it then send to topcomments at gmail dot com by 9:30PM Eastern! Don't forget to include your screen name so we can credit you! Anyone can submit comments- if you didn't do so today, please give it a try tomorrow!

Mining for comments is rumored to lower blood pressure raised by overreading of candidate diaries. Sometimes even one diary is too many, so mail those comments in and feel better now!

w00t. It's NH Primary Day. Pardon me while I once again am not excited...

Welcome to Top Comments, that daily space where we recognize comments made in the past 24 hours that for one reason or another are just too good to let fall by the wayside.

If you find a notable comment during the day, send a link- the date/time is the direct link- along with your screen name (so we can credit you!) by 9:30PM Eastern to topcomments at gmail dot com for inclusion! Anyone can submit comments- if you didn't do so today, please give it a try tomorrow!

Sending nominations to the TC mailbox makes a GREAT New Year's Resolution.

I hope everyone had a safe and fun New Year's Eve last night! For the 4th straight year Casa Brillig spent it with family friends.... We watched TV coverage of festivities in New York or elsewhere, ate well, and tried to keep our kids awake until midnight (props to Kid Brillig, who made it for the 3rd consecutive year!). This year we played Dance Dance Revolution on their Wii and I'm pleased to say I absolutely rule :-). (we are not mentioning that it was on beginner level...).

Welcome to Top Comments, that daily space where we recognize comments made in the past 24 hours that for one reason or another are just too good to let fall by the wayside.

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Are you listening? Gather close and let me tell you a story, you'll see why in a moment...

Hey I remembered tonight was my night, that's gotta count...

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Hiya!! It's that time of the week (otherwise known as Tuesday night) and time for DIDS. You regulars know DIDS is short for "Damn, I Did Something." It's that chance we all crave, to tell everyone the large, small, glorious and mundane things we DID in the past week. I'll be your DIDS host for tonight, which I suppose is a perfectly fine DIDS! :-)

If you find a notable comment during the day, send a link- the date/time is the direct link- along with your screen name (so we can credit you!) by 9:30PM Eastern to topcomments at gmail dot com for inclusion! Anyone can submit comments- let tomorrow be the day YOU do!

Welcome to today's installment of Top Comments! Now I know many, maybe most, of you are frequent TC readers and commenters, but maybe, just maybe, out there right now is someone new. A Kossack who until tonight never ventured into the realm of TC. Ooh, is that a hand I see raised back there? Perhaps they- you - are new to the site. Maybe you don't usually read at night. Maybe you have a friend who mentioned TC and said you'd love it here. Perhaps... well, there are as many reasons why as there are Kossacks who've discovered and embraced the Top Comments series.

Come inside, for tonight it's all about welcoming you get acclimated!

If you find a notable comment during the day, send a link- the date/time is the direct link- along with your screen name (so we can credit you!) by 9:30PM Eastern to topcomments at gmail dot com for inclusion! Anyone can submit comments- let tomorrow be the day YOU do!

There. Administrivia out of the way. Don't worry, it'll be repeated later, so just let it drift up your screen and make yourself at home here in Top Comments.

It's started. Just like holiday decorations, eggnog, seasonal music on the radio and white-lighted Christmas tree places sprouting up like kudzu. I know you've seen it- and heard it- too. It's...

Happy Day After Thanksgiving, everybody! I hope each and every one of you ate their fill of a delicious meal yesterday and then relived the experience via leftovers today! Casa Brillig was (still is, actually) at Mr. Brillig's parents' home and dined on a lovely meal of turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy (the gravy.. swoon!), squash casserole, green beans and cranberry sauce. Given the number of desserts also present, plus the traditional Run of the Leftovers we participated in today, it is a minor miracle I managed to move my torpid body to the computer to bring you this edition of Top Comments!

So two weeks ago Casa Brillig watched a repeat holiday episode of the Food Network show "Unwrapped". One segment of this episode showed how the National Turkey gets pardoned. I thought "wow.. this would make a great TC diary!" and then promptly forgot I'd ever thought that. Until earlier this week, when Mr. Brillig reminded me! So give thanks to him for the memory jog and follow me for tryptophan-laced thoughts:

About two weeks ago, the call came. It was my mother-in-law (hereafter for simplicity's sake referred to as Mom, since mine passed away in 2001), and it was the call I expect every year around this time:

"So what are your plans for Thanksgiving? We were thinking of having at our house this year..."

And so it began... the yearly ritual known as Scheduling And Organizing The Holiday Dinners. Now I don't know if you go through this, but follow me inside for a peek into my world...