The Official Autopsy® of the SOTU address

Naturally, it's a little awkward to have to sit and stare at the back of someone's head for an hour with TV cameras tightly trained upon you, but a lot of conjecture has gone into House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's blinkathon during President Bush's State of the Union address last night. By contrast, however, Vice President Dick Cheney barely seemed to blink at all -- I found myself trying not to blink just to see if he would. (The average number of blinks per minute is about 32, so between Nancy's 70 bpm and Dick's 4, they actually together come close to the average.)

Radar helpfully interpreted this and other body language during the SOTU.

No experts are required to interpret the body language of new Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann in her post-game embrace of President Bush.

Here's an even more grisly shot of the smooch.

As one commenter on another blog cried in dismay, "Oh, dear. Where's that button for 'report if shockingly offensive?'"

And apparently there are more liberals in Oklahoma than you might imagine.