The World Won't End
America's entire financial underpinnings will continue to collapse until we are left with a single nationalized bank, a single nationalized mortgage provider, and a single nationalized insurer, and John McCain still cannot figure out how to talk about the economy without sounding like an idiot. [ New York Times ]
Speaking of, the Fed took an 80 percent stake in insurance giant AIG in exchange for a two-year, $85 billion loan. [ Bloomberg ]
Somebody tried to bomb the US Embassy in Yemen, indicating that they still presumably do not like us over there. [ Washington Post ]
Barack Obama held a fancy Hollywood fundraiser and seduced thousands of movie big shots, the same way lumpy-faced Robert Redford seduced Demi Moore in that terrible movie a thousand years ago. [ Political Punch ]
Barack Obama wants universal healthcare while John McCain wants -- wait for it -- the market to decide. [ Washington Post ]
Here is some info on that Troopergate scandal that is just aleetletoo dull and complicated to really attract public interest, but is probably the most damning bit of political subterfuge Sarah Palin is associated with. [ Wall Street Journal ]