- McCain pays his celebrity makeup artist $5,000 per session. Why won't Cindy chip in for the 2 Whore Diamond upgrade? [Us Weekly]
- America is saved, hooray! Meet the Palin Plan: "Congress not pointing fingers at this point at … one another." Quick! Let's go do this thing! [Matthew Yglesias]
- Campell Brown wants to know why the Sexist Media does not ask Sarah Palin tuff questions even though the media is forbidden to speak to Palin, who is kept inside a snowglobe. [Ezra Klein]
- Oh dear, some racist Quakers hung Obama in effigy, in Oregon. The Decemberists opened. [Oregon Live]
- Bill Clinton says he can't campaign for Obama -- or do his Calc homework -- because of September's twelve Jewish holidays. [Ben Smith]
