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I just found Charles Krauthammer quoteable.

The God of the Founders, the God on the coinage, the God for whom Lincoln proclaimed Thanksgiving day is the ineffable, ecumenical, nonsectarian Providence of the American civil religion whose relation to this blessed land is without appeal to any particular testament or ritual. Every mention of God in every inaugural address in American history refers to the deity in this kind of all-embracing, universal, nondenominational way. (The one exception: William Henry Harrison. He caught cold delivering that inaugural address. Thirty-one days later, he was dead. Draw your own conclusion.) I suspect that neither Jefferson's Providence nor Washington's Great Author nor Lincoln's Almighty would look kindly on the exploitation of religious differences for political gain. It is un-American.
-- Charles Krauthammer, "Huckabee Plays the Religion Card," Washington Post, Friday, December 7, 2007; Page A39

And the only response I can come with to the Christian Right running for office: "Franklin Delano Roosevelt was a Christian and a Democrat. So was Harry Truman, and Jimmy Carter. You ain't no Roosevelt. You definitely ain't no Carter."

If you are a real vocabulary nerd

Play Free Rice.

Yes, it donates rice to starving people. (No, Juergen I did NOT do 45 minutes of exhaustive searching to make sure this is a charity our family can support.) It is through the United Nations World Food Programme (http://www.wfp.org/english/?n=681), though, so *I'm* pretty comfortable with it.

But it is the coolest, most complex vocabulary quiz EVAR on the net. Have fun.