"Your search - 'sarah palin' - did not match any documents."

Ha ha.

Stop saying "bailout."

Call it a "rescue." That might work. "It's a rescue of Main Street America." Sigh.

Lipstick...

... tattoo.

September...

... traffic.

"Alligator shows political bias."

Headline of the day.

We're all going to die.

Obama in the rain, animated version.

That's from Chip Ahoy, who introduced it in the comments over here . The original photo was blogged here yesterday.

"But God, Sir, in Your manner of teaching us about life's consequential nature, isn't death a bit ... um ... extreme, pedagogically speaking?"

"I know the lesson that we're studying is difficult. But dying is more homework than I was counting on." Writes P.J. O'Rou...

McCain and Obama address the financial crisis, each in his own way.

Today's ads. From McCain: From Obama: ... Nothing yet. O is kind of the silent type. ADDED: I am looking at Obama's YouTube page . I...

Our leaders "have failed utterly and catastrophically to project any sense of authority."

Says David Brooks. So they not only fail to lead, they fail to look like they are leading. Clowns on all sides. George W. Bush is completel...

So Tom Brokaw is fretting about criticism that NBC shows favoritism toward Obama.

On Sunday, I commented on how odd it was that Tom Brokaw ended a "Meet the Press" interview with Steve Schmidt and David Axelrod ...

In France, Muslims prefer Catholic school.

The NYT reports: “There is respect for our religion here,” said Nadia Oualane, 14, a student of Algerian descent who wears her hair hidden u...

"Our last number will be the issue dated September 30, the first day of Rosh Hashanah."

Goodbye to the New York Sun. It's sad to see a newspaper die, and the New York Sun occupied a special niche. I visited the Sun about a y...

"Dinosaur-human relations are not, to the best of my knowledge, part of the bailout debate and its partisanship..."

"... otherwise known as the subjects of this thread." Said Freeman Hunt , in that thread yesterday that went awry. Thanks to Palla...

"Every suspicion you have about MSM being in the tank for O is true."

Do you believe this ? I do. Unfortunately. Tragic, the loss of professionalism.

"Barack Obama failed to lead, phoned it in, attacked John McCain and refused to even say if he supported the final bill."

The McCain blames Obama. But does Obama blame McCain? AND: The House Republicans blame Pelosi. She "struck the tone of partisanship,...

The bailout fails!

Crash! ADDED: They just couldn't choke down that crap sandwich ! Woe to us all! Right? Or... not....

Here's how ABC ends a blogpost about Obama standing in the pouring rain to give a speech.

On an ominous note: Astute students of history have noted, weather is not something politicians should take lightly. The presidency of Will...

Let's look at the photos the NYT uses to illustrate a piece titled "On Bailout, Candidates Were Surely Themselves."

Here 's the arty and cool but distorted and disturbing picture of McCain. And here 's the elegant and eminently presidential Mr. Oba...

"You are also a paid astrotroller."

A comment on the "Brokaw's bizarre" post that got me wondering. I know what an astrotroll/astrotroller is (and it hasn't ...

"Boehner calls bill a 'crap sandwich'..."

But he'll eat it anyway.

"Bill Clinton and Ronald Reagan... would have won a third term easily and still could (even though Reagan is dead)."

That's not the first thing that amused me this morning, just the first thing that amused me enough to blog. It's from this Stanley F...

"The RenGen is a psychographic more than a demographic..."

It's the "renaissance generation": [T]hey are eco-conscious; they take their cues from nature so they are willing to accept pr...

About that...

... bracelet.

Tom Brokaw's bizarre idea of what fairness required.

Steve Schmidt and David Axelrod were on "Meet the Press" this morning, and they spewed talking points and evaded the questions as...

"The polar bear and the tiger cannot fight."

Freud, from a book of aphorisms that I've been reading, very slowly, for years. Collected and categorized by W.H. Auden (and some other ...

"No solution to a problem can be more elegant than the problem itself."

"We are dealing with a very difficult problem. Given the dimensions of the problem, I believe we have done a good job. It includes genu...

Fashionistas in the rain.

Great slideshow. What do you do when there's nowhere to step but puddles and your shoes cost $400+? How can clothing be perceived as bea...

You judge the new Tina Fey skit spoofing Sarah Palin.

I clicked it off at 1:29 even though I wanted to blog about it. I thought it was too dumb and boring to watch. Waiting all those long second...

Did Eisenhower advise his son to commit suicide?

John S.D. Eisenhower has a NYT op-ed opining that presidential sons should not be permitted to serve in combat duty. He recounts his own ex...

"Did he just say 'orgy'?!"

ADDED: Did he just say "horseshit"? Come on, Andrew. It's a debate, not "Louie Louie."

Tea time.

I said I was green-tea blogging -- not drunk-blogging -- the debate last night, and Ricardo asked : "What kind of green tea was it? Enq...

The smack in the face.

A teaser for a forthcoming diavlog. What do you think we're talking about? ADDED: Glenn Kenny guesses "Chinatown," meanin...

Let's compare the candidates' post-debate ads.

Here's Barack Obama's: Here's McCain's: Okay, McCain's ad is way funnier. It's clever, though it's not really fa...

What are some irrational things that's intelligent, educated people believe in?

For example, I know law professors who believe in astrology.

Paul Newman has died.

We knew he was dying, but it is sad to know he's gone. I'll have more in a few minutes, but here 's a press report. Please talk ...

McCain "needs to make an opponent an enemy in his mind to kind of get up for this. He personalizes conflict..."

That's WaPo's Eugene Robinson, responding to Chris Matthews, who's fulminating about McCain's supposed contempt for Obama: I...

The morning after the debate.

It's tempting to go back into the live-blog, when it's become the dead-blog, and punch it up with sober observations, quotes from th...

Live-blogging the big debate.

7:22 Central Time: Yes, I'm here, ready to go. Eager. This is big! 7:58: In the comments, we're setting the terms for the drinking g...

It's time for another "cruel neutrality" check.

You know I've taken a vow of cruel neutrality , but people keep questioning my faith. So how is Althouse doing with her "cruel neut...

"Has the McCain Campaign Broken Sarah Palin?"

Asks Christopher Orr: [H]er preppers and coddlers and protectors in the campaign [must be giving her the message]: You're not ready. We ...

Briefly displayed: a video of Sarah Palin, in her Miss Alaska bathing suit, was a brief internet sensation.

I missed it, but I see Andrew Sullivan had it along with Huffpo , both without significant comment. Hot Air has it with the comment: ...

"You're a racist! We're a racist! Everybody's a racist! But you can overcome your racism in the face of an imminently exploding car..."

"Crash" is #3 on New York's list of "Ten Liberal Movies So Lame They Make Even Democrats Want to Vote Republican." ...

McCain will debate.

Good call. He needs a graceful explanation to go with that, but it would have been awful not to show. Advance warning: I'll live-blog.

How Sarah Palin could give a better interview.

Some advice . She really does need to do better, but she's under an inconceivable amount of pressure to perform. I don't see how it...

Justice Alito opts out of the cert. pool.

He's rejecting the efficiency of the system of shared law clerks in which clerk writes a memo relied on by Justices using the pool to d...

Can they do a poll to learn what kind of people hang up on pollsters?

It's kind of a problem. Is there a certain type of person likely to refuse the probing calls? And does that affect polling numbers? In a...

"I'm feeling like an ugly date. I feel used. I feel cheap."

McCain rubbed Dave the wrong way.

"And I gotta say Survivor in HD is awesome. Except for the bug bites and whatever is all over Danny's back."

"My husband said they looked like stab wounds but pausing the DVR didn't offer many clues." So are you watching "Survivor...

"Obama's the calm guy and McCain is the chicken running around with his head cut off."

Does McCain now wish he'd taken the Obama-style low-profile approach to the bailout?

The NYT reports on yesterday's meeting at the White House, where the supposedly worked-out bailout plan broke down. Was it that John Mc...

The bailout agreement.

WSJ reports: After a three-hour meeting, lawmakers agreed to legislative principles that would approve Treasury's request for the funds,...

"I thought the 'vomit' tag was a joke, but you actually have dozens of posts tagged 'vomit." Was 'bodily fluids' too generic?"

Asked Michiel, in the comments to this post . And indeed, the answer is yes. There's a limit to how many posts Blogger will show on the ...

Is Bill Clinton deliberately undermining Obama?

There's this . And Rush, on the radio, is saying that Clinton is "dropping neutron bombs all over the place" on Obama. ADDED: ...

"No convention today!... OK, it's on!... The economy's sound... No, wait, it's going to fall apart unless I go to Washington tomorrow!... "

"We need a commission!... We need to fire somebody!... Get me Andrew Cuomo!... I want ten more debates!... But let's postpone the o...

Do not annoy the Letterman.

He may suddenly pounce.

"Crossword puzzles heavily favor Democrats."

LOL . And those dastardly puzzlers also betray an evil fondness for Arab cities , the Spanish language , Hindu royalty , Hawaiian fowl , and...

"You are going to be working with an enzyme that bonds protein. You are made of protein."

"Unless you want to glue your lungs together or glue your eyelids to your eyeballs, you absolutely must follow these safety rules....

Sarah Palin will be answering questions later.

Here she is, on the spot, not responding to Katie Couric: "I'll try to find you some [examples], and I'll bring them to you....

When Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart met Entertainment Weekly.

They made a great cover! If you're looking for the old posts about the great, hotly controversial New Yorker cover by Barry Blitt, they...

"I heard that Wall Street traders will treat us like liberators."

Comment by Peter Hoh on last night's post about the Bush speech that made me laugh the saddest possible half-laugh.

Aerosmith's Steven Tyler is suing unknown bloggers who've impersonated him.

I'll be watching this , since I have a problem with a prominent blog allowing commenters to comment in my name. I've asked the blog...

"The tattoo community sees them as posers. It’s like going out in the 1960s to buy a Beatles wig."

Said Bob Baxter , the editor of the tattoo journal Skin & Ink, of people who get hand or neck tattoos before they've inked up the re...

Bush speaks.

At 9 ET. Comment here. UPDATE: I do wish he'd been able to sell us on the plan with an explanation of how we'd be taking advantage o...

"Is Obama under-performing because he’s black?"

That's an ambiguous way to put it!

"I am calling on the president to convene a meeting with the leadership from both houses of Congress," says McCain.

This is, I think, a smart demonstration of leadership. McCain is suspending his campaign and seeking a postponement of the debate that is s...

The Purple Pod Café.

It's a place where you can talk about what you like.

The internet is a series of tubes.

Fallopian tubes.

"He has to urinate against gravity, which is not good for the kidneys."

David Blaine is annoying everyone again, yet we're supposed to sympathize.

Flea at USC.

He's a freshman, studying music: The Chili Peppers [created tension] in our song structures but all based on emotion and intuition as o...

"Did Palin Help McCain Among White Women?"

Actually, no .

"John McCain truly believes, truly believes that you are corporate America's problem. And thank God you are."

Said Joe Biden to the trial lawyers: "There are two people -- you've heard me say it before -- two groups that stand between us and...

"She seems nice. She seems smart. She likes hockey."

Fake Sarah Palin. Getting Kristy Webb ready for the part : 10:45 a.m. - Hairstylist Nathalie Quedru teases Webb's hair in three differen...

The University of Illinois tells all its employees they can't wear political buttons or attend political rallies on campus.

And if their cars have political bumper stickers, they can't park them in campus lots! ADDED: I understand the focus on bumper stickers....

I sort of love the results of this Larry King/Ahmadinejad "blingee" contest.

But if I look at it for more than a few seconds, I get nauseated and on the verge of a seizure, so I don't know what to think of this n...

Clay's...

... gay. Compare: Apparently, "yep" is the special lesbian way to say yes.

"Why is Obama so vapid and hesitant and gutless? Why, to put it another way, does he risk going into political history as a dusky Dukakis?"

Christopher Hitchens has some questions.

"A new Operation Chaos, it's called SOB, Save Our Biden, Operation Sling Blade."

"We need to keep this guy on the campaign." Is it really this bad? Check out the amazing gush of Biden gaffes at that link. (Warni...