At Balloon Juice, a bunch of comments waxing philosophic on the purpose of the State — in the lead-up time to a State of the Union speech.

Now if only there were a little less “Conservative?  Anarchist?  Same thing!” shot through among most of it…

BTW: no, I will not be live-blogging it.  I only did the VP debate last election because I was expecting to be laughing half of the time.  Instead, I will be engaging in a more productive activity: playing Guild Wars.