Look, it’s Obama’s approval ratings over time! Right right right, whatever, who cares, etc. We just wanted to share Marc Ambinder’s full analysis of this: “This: well — it’s been a month of sausage making, and as we learned in July, when the sausage is in the oven, Obama can’t escape the taint of partisanship that Americans seem to be rebelling against.” That’s disgusting, Marc, whatever you wrote. [Marc Ambinder]

Good gravy, we really did not intend to do nothing today except make dirty jokes about lascivious demons with fiendishly specialized sexual equipment, but then Time throws out this headline, and what are we supposed to do, ignore it? The lower half of this photograph (not pictured) shows Barack Obama furtively shielding his genitals from Rod Blagojevich’s insidious, creeping taint. RUN, BARRY!!! [Time]