The smash British TV show:

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Garrison Keillor encourages Bush to retire:
“The Current Occupant, who is two years and three months away from retirement, was quoted last week as saying, “They can say what they want about me, but at least I know who I am, and I know who my friends are.” A pathetic admission of defeat for one who […]

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A new study strongly links sudden infant death syndrome to a brain stem defect.

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This is such a beautiful song. Lyrics by Johnny Mercer, music by Barry Manilow:
And when October goes
The snow begins to fly
Above the smokey roofs
I watch the planes go by
The children running home
Beneath a twilight sky
Oh, for the fun of them
When I was one of them
And when October goes
The same old dream appears
And you are in […]

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Special rendition, Israel-style.

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In honor of Halloween, what’s still the scariest movie I’ve ever seen:

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Wonder who’s going to dig into the story behind this Air America advertising blacklist?

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What does it mean when a middle-aged woman scoops Philebrity’s Joey Sweeney on the Walkmen? I mean, dude, seriously. I mentioned their album in the comments two or three days ago, and I don’t even get paid to be cool.

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Roxanne reminds us political polling can’t catch the people who have cell phones as their only number.

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See, if you can’t read it, it doesn’t really exist:
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has closed its principal library for researching the effects and properties of chemicals.
Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) strongly opposes the closure, saying it will undermine the ability of researchers to reveal chemical hazards in the future. There are some 1,700 […]

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Philadelphia officials are rolling over for the casino industry and keeping information out of the hands of activists. Sounds like a recipe for a showdown.

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While I am all about the benefits of voluntary celibacy, I think this is going a bit too far, don’t you think?
The federal government’s “no sex without marriage” message isn’t just for kids anymore.
Now the government is targeting unmarried adults up to age 29 as part of its abstinence-only programs, which include millions of […]

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From a Democratic activist’s yard in Illinois:

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Great spoof of the GOP attack ad:

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I liked this little dig from E.J. Dionne’s column this morning:
Conservatives should be embarrassed by Allen’s last-minute sliming of Webb’s books, since conservative critics have been among their biggest fans. In 2002 a writer for National Review, one of the nation’s leading conservative publications, said Webb’s “Fields of Fire” was “still the finest novel yet […]

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In that way that only she can, the Times’s Michiko Kukitani rips torture advocate John Yoo’s new book:
Mr. Yoo has not used his academic background in the legal aspects of war powers issues and executive authority to make a persuasive case here for the administration’s actions. Instead, he has written a book that reads like […]

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Another followup story on Wacky Curt Weldon’s executive placement services:
Mr. Weldon’s relationship with the Italians has been mutually beneficial. His daughter Kim, 29, a former social worker, was hired by AgustaWestland, the Finmeccanica subsidiary that won the Marine One contract, shortly after her father’s speech in Portofino. Kim Weldon’s work is to set up booths […]

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Via the Rothenberg Political Report, some interesting trends in state ballot initiatives:
Of special note are one poll which shows Arizona’s same-sex marriage ban trailing badly (though another poll has it comfortably ahead); a second recent survey in blue-state Oregon that has a parental-consent-for-abortion measure up by 20 points; and big leads for two measures that […]

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It’s not just the Senate and House races that are important this year - the state house races are, too. Here’s why.

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Vote Democratic. We’re good at things like that. Republicans prefer to let the Magic of the Free Market protect us from food-borne illness, and so far, that hasn’t worked all that well. (You don’t suppose their lack of inspections has anything to do with it, do you?)

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Lots of new polls out tonight. This one from Congressional Quarterly, and this one from Charlie Cook, who sees no ebb in the wave:
With the election just eight days away, there are no signs that this wave is abating. Barring a dramatic event, we are looking at the prospect of GOP losses in […]

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Just one of those little things that always seems to slip the minds of corporate media minions:
In an October 28 article on Sen. George Allen’s (R-VA) recent attack on former Navy Secretary James Webb, Allen’s Democratic opponent in the upcoming election, regarding novels Webb wrote years ago containing graphic passages, The New York Times quoted […]

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Nice move, Governor.

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