In the wake of last week's all-Republican snoozefest, Slate asked its readers how they would spice up the pre-choreographed, yawn-inducing debates. The readers quickly obliged, suggesting everything from limiting the number of participants (i.e. to only the frontrunners), to giving candidates the opportunity to question one another to instituting penalties for "evasive or meaningless answers."

Our favorite innovation, however, was somewhat more extreme: implementing mid-debate candidate-to-candidate text messaging.

Slate even came up with a sample chat!

The funniest thing about that is, we were going to name Jesus to the Supreme Court, too! Until we remembered that we're Jewish, pro-choice, and all our best friends are power gays. But we totally love the im thing.