"Furthermore, I am a logical, sensible, pragmatic Republican, and my diagnosis came just weeks after Teddy Kennedy's. That he should have cancer of the brain, and I should have cancer of the ass … well, I'll say a rosary for him and hope he has a laugh at me. After all, what would I do, ask God for a more dignified cancer? Pancreatic? Liver? Lung?" Somewhere, Denis Leary is dying laughing. "Ass cancer" indeed.

The Anchorage Daily News savages Palin on Troopergate.

I would classify myself as a young evangelical, and I think anyone who's been reading the site for longer than five minutes realizes that I'm supporting Barack Obama.

"An Obama-Biden radio ad hammers McCain for being opposed to stem cell research. Not true. Meanwhile two spots from the McCain-Palin campaign, together with the Republican National Committee, describe McCain's support for the research; they're largely accurate.

"By saying that 'John McCain has stood in the way – he's opposed stem cell research,' the Obama ad seriously misstates the view that McCain has held on this issue since 2001, when he began backing embryonic stem cell research, a position that was out of step with that of many of his fellow Republicans.

"The McCain/RNC ads would probably lead listeners to believe that Palin shares McCain's views on this topic. That's not true. But we find that to be a minor flaw compared with the misrepresentation in Obama's ad." Shame on you, Barack.

"Obama-Biden campaign spokesman David Wade later said, in responding to McCain campaign criticism of the remark, that Biden was comparing what China was doing to what we should do about coal pollution here in the U.S. 'Senator Biden’s point is that China is building coal plants with outdated technology every day, and the United States needs to lead by developing clean coal technologies,' Wade said." And my point is that Joe Biden can say some really dumb shit if you let him talk.

The level of contempt from Katie is about as high as mine. I think I would've said to her, "You've gotta be fuckin' kiddin me!" It's not gotcha journalism when it's a voter asking a question.

"So long as Steve Jobs is alive, Apple will always be more than a cool gadget company. It will always be more than a computer company. It will be more than an iTunes company or an App Store company — more, even, than the sum of its parts. It will be part of the ongoing history of humankind's relationship to machines."

Spot on. +1000, Blankbaby.