Internal Monologue

xkcd rocks.

The Politico 's Jonathan Martin has this latest gob-smacking tidbit about the ignorance of McCain's VP nomination: The Palin aide, after first noting how "infuriating" it was for CBS to purportedly leak word about the gaffe, revealed that it came in response to a question about Supreme Court decisions. After noting Roe vs. Wade , Palin was apparently unable to discuss any major court cases. There was no verbal fumbling with this particular question as there was with some others, the aide said, but rather silence. We should have the footage soon . We'll see. Egad. I could come up with a few off the top of my head: the Kelo case on eminent domain, the Leadbetter case about when you can sue for pay discrimination, Hamdan about the rights of detainees, Bush vs. Gore. And those are just recent ones. If I get to dig in the history books, Marbury vs. Madison (judicial review, IIRC), Griswald vs. Connecticut (legalizing birth control), Brown vs Board of Education (segr

...when financial markets are imploding. I think the Democrats in congress should pass a better stabilization package, and not bother working with Republicans. They've shown that they won't hold up their end of the bargain. If this results in a more sane bailout, that will be good. [I sent this from my iPhone, so please excuse any excessive brevity or typographical errors.] --Zachary Drake

Well, if it hasn't lapped our satire, it's at least pulled even with it, and SNL takes advantage: Some of the dialogue in that sketch used actual transcript material from Palin's infamous Couric interview.

This is pretty sick : Njie was one of several affected when a suspected chemical irritant was sprayed into the mosque at 26 Josie St., bringing Dayton police, fire and hazardous material personnel to the building at 9:48 p.m. Someone "sprayed an irritant into the mosque," Dayton fire District Chief Vince Wiley said, noting that fire investigators believe it was a hand-held spray can. According to fire dispatch communications, a child reported seeing two men with a white can spraying something into a window. That child was brought to the supervising firefighter at the scene. (HT: Chris Rodda and Taz Man on DailyKos ) I hope whoever did this gets caught and gets a lot of jail time. This kind of violence has no place in America (or the rest of the world, for that matter).

Via Sam Loomis on DailyKos . They scary thing is, this sort of thinking is not a joke to some people.

I thought it was pretty much a draw: of course I like Obama a lot better, but I thought McCain did a decent job of stating his positions. I don't like those positions, but I figured that folks who liked him before the debate would continue to do so. In a way, this is probably a loss for McCain, as he's behind and needed a major shake-up, which I didn't see. Also, if people were nervous about Obama's newness on the scene, I think they might be reassured by Obama's calm demeanor and ability to handle the issues. Apparently, undecideds favored Obama a great deal . And CNN's poll says Obama won . Sullivan has a roundup of reactions (an earlier one here ). Many are similar to my own. Mark Halperin at TIME gives Obama an A- and McCain a B-.