Remember when the White House agreed to push forward President Obama's speech about U.S. involvement in Libya last month because people really needed to see Dancing with the Stars? Something similar has happened up north, where Thursday's French language political debate was moved forward to avoid conflicting with a Montreal Canadiens vs. Boston Bruins playoff game. From the Toronto Star:

The first Republican presidential debate, co-sponsored by NBC News and Politico, has been postponed from May to September since no one important is running yet. Fortunately, the more exciting Fox News debate several days later is still on.

On this beautiful spring day, let us celebrate the changing seasons with designer Tom Ford, who has issued a style decree: men must never expose their legs in public.

Why is everyone so damn worked up bike lanes, those green strips of pavement that have been popping up all over New York (and causing disputes) in the past few years? A New Yorker scribe is virulently opposed to them, and now everyone seems opposed to him.

Candidates for Republican party chairperson debated today! You all probably have it Tivo'd, so we don't want to spoil too much. But one lady candidate responded to a question about her "favorite bar," even though that question was never asked.

The Republican presidential debate schedule just got infinitely better, as the Tea Party Express will co-host a "first-of-its-kind" Tea Party debate with CNN, in September. Hot damn! We're buying a 2011 calendar, just for the pleasure of circling this date.

Newt Gingrich, who is still pretending to consider a presidential run, is laying down primary ground rules: No Republican debates moderated by Chris Matthews and Keith Olbermann again! Not that there was a first time, necessarily. But still!

Politico and NBC News will co-host the first 2012 Republican debate, at party overlord Ronald Reagan's presidential library.

New York assemblyman Bob Reilly is taking some heat for impersonating the voice of a supporter with cerebral palsy during a debate Monday night. While there isn't a whiff of mean-spiritedness in his impersonation, it's still kinda awkward! Video below.

New Mexico Lt. Gov. Diane Denish made a funny during a televised debate. Denish, who is running for governor, wanted to accuse opponent Susana Martinez of wasteful spending on government bonuses. Instead, she said Martinez "gave big, fat boners."

Candidates: Please include a notecard of recent Supreme Court decisions in your debate notes? Because when you're asked, as congressional candidate Jon Runyan was yesterday, which decision of the last 10-15 years you disagree with, 1857's Dred Scott won't fly.

"Debate Madness Week" continued this morning with another battle between Delaware's Christine O'Donnell and Chris Coons. Coons only had to recite the damn First Amendment to O'Donnell, to prove that religious freedom is established within it. O'Donnell still looked skeptical!

Did you watch the debate between candidates for Governor of New York? Did you see the man with, uh, unique facial hair? Who wore gloves the whole time? That's Jimmy McMillan, candidate for the Rent Is 2 Damn High Party.

The only debate in New York's gubernatorial race happens tonight! Will Carl Paladino finally just kick Andrew Cuomo in the balls before fleeing the country? Yes. But what about the other five candidates who'll be participating? Prepare for madness.

Finally, a bit of the ol' ultraviolence in Debate Season 2010: Kentucky Senate candidates Rand Paul and Jack Conway nearly came to fisticuffs last night, following the release of Conway's incendiary attack ad questioning Paul's Christianity. Bloodbath highlights, below.

'Twas a riveting night of primetime programming on C-SPAN last night, as Nevada Senate candidates Sharron Angle, a scary twitching dingbat, and Sen. Harry Reid, with all the charisma of a brain tumor, held their only debate. Who "won"?

Puffy, halo-haired hypocrite xenophobe Lou Dobbs is absolutely outraged that The Nation would correctly report that he employed illegal immigrants as workers at his various palatial estates. What—do they want Lou Dobbs to start racial profiling?

Hey, Arizona immigration law haters who are looking for some schadenfreude: it's popcorn time. Because here's a clip of Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer last night giving one of the worst debate opening statements... ever? Sure, let's go with "ever."

You missed a big nasty debate over the weekend about the extremely low number of women entrepreneurs and what's being done to change it.

New York's two Republican primary candidates for Chuck Schumer's Senate seat debated yesterday! And the format included a terrifyingly schizophrenic "lightning round," which concluded with the defining political question of our time.