You may want to save some of your wasted donations for the taxpayer bailout that your boy--you know the candidate tied to Phil Gramm, the Keating Five, and Rick Davis--birthed. Looks like you're gonna need the money after November 4.

Senator McCain should stop his sanctimonious posturing and get himself to Mississippi for Friday's presidential candidates debate.

Given McCain's record of support for deregulation, it's obvious that the senator and his lobbyist/campaign manager, Rick Davis, need another week to wipe their fingerprints off the financial policies they pimped that led us into this mess. That McCain's suggestion for a postponement also puts the Biden vs. Palin debate up in the air makes McCain's "bipartisan" postponement appeal about as worthless as Bear Stearns securities.

McCain has admitted he has a little understanding of economics, and his shifting statements this week on the bailout continue to confirm his self-assessment. I'm willing to bet that McCain and his campaign staff took stock of the latest polls and decided now was no time for the candidate to appear on a national stage with Obama, even though foreign affairs is supposed to be McCain's strong suit.

How presidential.

Senator McCain should stop his sanctimonious posturing and get himself to Mississippi for Friday's presidential candidates debate.

Given McCain's record of support for deregulation, it's obvious that the senator and his lobbyist/campaign manager, Rick Davis, need another week to wipe their fingerprints off the financial policies they pimped that led us into this mess. That McCain's suggestion for a postponement also puts the Biden vs. Palin debate up in the air makes McCain's "bipartisan" postponement appeal about as worthless as Bear Stearns securities.

McCain has admitted he has a little understanding of economics, and his shifting statements this week on the bailout continue to confirm his self-assessment. I'm willing to bet that McCain and his campaign staff took stock of the latest polls and decided now was no time for the candidate to appear on a national stage with Obama, even though foreign affairs is supposed to be McCain's strong suit.

How presidential.

I wish I could take credit for it, but a correspondent called Chgo Jim on the Daily Kos site posted this great line on Obama in response to McPalin's smear-a-day campaign:

"I also heard he has fathered two black children."

...related to Stan the Caddy?

...related to Stan the Caddy?

Or Floyd the Barber?

Appearing on Hardball Tuesday, Denis Leary was asked by Chris Matthews who would be, in effect, the First Pooper Scooper for the First Family's new puppy.

With a devilish grin Leary nominated Joe L.

Yup, Diablo, you are young. And naive...

I, too, was impressed with Sole Man's arm. As a Pittsburgh Pirates fan, I'm thinkin' the Bucs might want to take a closer look at this pitching prospect. They did just sign a couple of Indian cricketeers who'd won a contest, after all. Could be good for post-war international relations....

Bush did indeed react quickly in ducking both shoes, and it just occurred to me that one of my wife's Wii games involves heading soccer balls kicked at you while you stand on the balance board. The avatars also kick panda heads and, yes, shoes at your noggin. Points are deducted from your score if you get beaned by the non-spheroids.

Maybe Bush plays Wii Fit. Someone should ask him at the next presser....

I'm surprised no one has mentioned that Larry Fitzgerald clearly was running out of bounds before he tackled James Harrison at the end of Harrison's interception return. If Harrison had been stopped short of the end zone, would the refs have disqualified the tackle?

Anyone?

If the refs were tilting toward the Steelers, why would they call the holding penalty in the end zone after Holmes made his clutch first-down catch?

Karl Rove believes in the George Costanza Defense:

"Remember, Jerry, it's not a lie, if you believe it."

Hello, I'm Johnny. And I'm a discaholic.

(ALL: Hello, Johnny.)

These days I try to remain calm about the day-to-day state of the world, lest I live in a state of perpetual agitation. Despite my best efforts to stay in my happy place, however, I can get worked into a high dudgeon about the decline of the record store. Particularly when Virgin is closing its midtown Manhattan--which I've visited every time in in New York--because of real estate greed. (I hope Bleecker Street Records is still around.)

Back in the late '70s I worked at the Record Factory shop on Market Street near Castro in San Francisco, ending up as assistant manager for a time. I also wrote a piece for Playboy's Oui magazine on the 25 Best Record Stores in the U.S. and have frequented disc emporiums from Seattle to Rome.

Yes, I purchase mp3s and can see the benefits of Internet shopping. But there's a qualitative difference between the two transactions. Get out of the house, people. It'll do your complexion and your heart some good.

Luckily, my 25-year-old stepdaughter gets this, so all is not lost.

Just talkin' about this has got me all flushed. I gotta go. Record Surplus down on Pico is having a big sale.

So Summers says AIG's bonus babies will sue if they don't receive their ill-gotten gains. I say: Go ahead, sue me.

Void the contracts. I want to see whether these leeches have the brass neck to stand up in court before the American people and demand their bogus bonuses. Especially after the autoworkers revised their contracts.

It is important to note that Irish Republicans incarcerated in British jails/gaols did hold political prisoner status before the Thatcher government strategically and tactically decided to "criminalize" resistance to British rule. Or misrule, as the case may be.

The British government's effort to cast Republicans as mere criminals ultimately led, as Andrew indicates, to the Hunger Strike.