Your 2009 Nobel Peace Prize Winner Is American President Barack Obama!

• WELL, WELL: Barack Obama won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize! For nuclear things! Anyway this is better than at least 3/5 of the summer Olympic events. [ New York Times ]

• The moon, well, most of it, managed to prolong its existence overnight despite NASA's best efforts. [ New York Times ]

• 160-ish people were killed in mudslides in the Philippines. The last time things were this flood-y there was 40 years ago. [ AP ]

• A car bomb in Pakistan killed 42 people and injured 60 more. No one officially took credit but people are generally thinking "Taliban." [ Times Online ]

• Olympia Snowe arguably still matters. This seems tenuous! Anyway, the LA Times has interviewed every known resident of Maine to prove it. [ LA Times ]

• Gen. McChrystal and the military people would like 40,000 troops sent to Afghanistan. [ WSJ ]