The Infomercial That Wet A Thousand Hankies
Every solid and liquid material in China is tainted with melamine. [ AP ]
John McCain calls Barack Obama's 30-minute ad about sad, dignified Americans going to work at the Wal-Mart so they can buy food a "gauzy, feel-good commercial ... paid for with broken promises." [ Chicago Sun-Times ]
Sarah Palin doesn't know why women don't like her, but she will continue to "fight for them" or whatever. [ ABC News ]
The Treasury and FDIC are looking at a plan to bail out millions of fat-cat homeowners who can't afford their $600,000 stucco boxes on .08-acre lots in Reno. [ Bloomberg ]
Turnout in heavily Democratic Montgomery County, Maryland looks like it will be super high, even though almost half of newly registered voters in the area are notoriously slothful 18-to-29-year-olds. [ Washington Post ]
A suicide bomber killed five people outside the Afghan Ministry of Culture in Kabul. [ Times of London ]