Bad time to check your BlackBerry: during a Senate debate

We've only run for Congress a couple of times, but even our Treo-addicted selves know better than to check email during a debate. You'd think people who've actually won elections would already know that, but apparently congressman Peter Deutsch, a candidate for the Senate in Florida, couldn't stop himself from pulling out his BlackBerry during commercial breaks while the in the middle of a debate with several of the other candidates. Properly chastened, Deutsch says he's going to stick to an abacus from now on.