"Historians say McCain camp not sleaziest"

Try 1800.

Also, this is a brilliant headline.

Also:

Sarah Palin: reminding women everywhere of that time the job they should have had went to the under-qualified hot chick*.



*Sarah Palin is not hot.

Does vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin know how to interior decorate or does vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin know how to interior decorate?

“As for that VP talk all the time, I’ll tell you, I still can’t answer that question until somebody answers for me what is it exactly that the VP does every day?”

Why I read the Economist's blog:

9:05: Wow. Apparently a lot of people in the crowd there miss the 90s—when Pavement was still together, an edgy company with a name and no product or revenue model could have a larger market cap than Buick, and our random military interventions unsupported by any vital national interest were at least one-night stands.

Bill Clinton sounds like he has a watermelon jolly rancher in his mouth.

Well let me just say I thought it might be neat to get the vp text message. What I expected was to get the news at work and to know it before NPR reported it. I did not anticipate being woken up at 314 in the morning to hear about Joe Biden. Apparently, the story leaked over night and they didn't want to wait until a reasonable hour and, thereby, look like a bunch of assholes. But I have to say: slops!

Slops, Obama VP text message announcement gimmick. Sloppy.

Biden does not get me fired up but very little could at this point: who is the least wealthiest et cetera.

I saw Joe Biden at a bar in Iowa at 8 in the morning on the day of the Caucus. I was very tired.

After he spoke I chatted him up briefly because we had talked about his federalism plan for Iraq in one of my classes. Basically, I said to Joe that I was refreshed to hear his proposals because I think that ethnic/religious conflicts/cleavages exist in the context of the systems in which they exist, and that policy people need to understand that it is not just that a democracy is a democracy is a democracy.

"That's it! You get it, buddy!" Joe said.

So to reiterate, the head of the ticket hugged me, and the bottom of the ticket thinks I'm smart.

One time I shook John McCain's hand when he was looking for the bathroom.

Best-executed album art of the decade.

Current spin: "One Fine Day"

"A Georgian woman prays during Sunday mass in Matskhovris Karis Church in Zugdidi, a major town in western Georgia, August 17, 2008. Russia's Defence Ministry said on Sunday it had not yet begun withdrawing troops from Georgia's breakaway region of South Ossetia.

REUTERS/Umit Bektas"