I had to dress up for something today, and since I was looking pretty good and needed some food anyway, I thought I would go straight from work and strut around the grocery store a little. You know, show off the merchandise. When I got to my car it was kind of toasty, so I took out my handkerchief to dab my brow, and laid it on the passenger seat in case I needed it again while I was driving. The a/c kicked in pretty quickly, though, so I forgot about it.

A bit later, as I was walking through the store, I caught my reflection in a door in the frozen foods section. I noticed what looked like something hanging out of my pocket. I reached down and realized that I had pulled by back pocket out when I removed my handkerchief. So I looked like a mechanic with his oil-checkin' rag waving in his back pocket. And I had been walking around the store like that, thinking I looked good.

Now that's classy.

To commemorate the news that Karl Rove is leaving his White House job, here's a great old CBS News clip about the 1972 Nixon re-election efforts, featuring a young Karl Rove (all that hair!) and bonus -- a young Dan Rather. Enjoy! (And note how many things have changed and how many have stayed the same!)

I wrote a post a couple of months ago about whether religious conservatives would be able to accept Rudolph Giuliani as the GOP candidate. I mentioned Steve "Feddie" Dillard's efforts to prevent such a perceived calamity. Now his website, Catholics Against Rudy, is up and running.

The CAR site is polished and professional, and I'm sure it's helpful for what it's trying to do. (Be sure to check out CAR's MySpace page. Steve's a Scorpio, so apparently Catholics are fine with astrology!) And here's an AP story (with a quote from Steve) about Giuliani's difficulties in trying to trade on his Catholic background when it helps him but elide the issue when it hurts him. (Ramesh Ponnuru at The Corner linked to these sites -- well, not the MySpace page -- before I was able to, but I found them on my own.)

Ultimately, I'm still not convinced that Feddie and his gang are doing anything more than tilting at windmills. Giuliani may yet not end up winning the GOP nomination, but I think that would be more as a result of things like last week's gaffe than disquietude from religious conservatives. I had more on this in my original post, and Ponnuru links to a recent poll suggesting that abortion opponents are supporting Giuliani despite his positions. I think that most voters just aren't going to base their decisions on whether Giuiliani is Catholic enough.

I'll try to remember to check in on the CAR site from time to time, and Steve is welcome to drop by and tell me why I'm wrong.