THIS IS YOUR LIFE

There were a lot of spooky moments in the two presidential debates this week ("Mitt, you say you'll protect us from the Hispanic invasion, but we caught you talking to Spanish-speakers! How can you defend yourself?"). The most spooky non-substantive part had to have been the moderators describing the "regular people" to themselves: "Your name is Josh Eidelson. You live in Sacramento. You have two siblings. You sometimes will eat a mango, dried mango, and mango sorbet in the same day. Is that right? And I hear you have a question for the candidates about taxes." It was a lot like those Sesame Street episodes where different kind of produce are on a talk show about how they were made.