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Barack Obama to supporters: " Don't get cocky, people ." " W " versus " The Secret Life of Bees ." Now that the economy sucks, Florida is in play ... ...oh, and Virginia is in play too . I must have ticked the Red Sox off . Public image of John McCain going down . Fat people don't like sweets as much as people think. So the economy in in the crapper, and now gas prices go down ? Seriously, WTF?

Glen Beck is set to join Fox News .

...but it doesn't come from me. Here's William Saletan on how Obama (and McCain) dealt with the abortion issue: The issues that have dominated this election are fundamentally technical: How do we stabilize the financial system and revive the economy? How do we get out of Iraq without triggering a collapse? How do we get affordable energy fast? The surge, the bailout, offshore drilling—they're all technical. They're not about opposing values. They're about what will or won't work. Obama's doing quite nicely in this environment. He's steady, practical, poised, boring. He's a technician. So Schieffer pops a question about abortion, probably hoping to start a fight. McCain does his part. What does Obama do? He technifies it. Will a technical approach to abortion satisfy the country? The election hardly hangs on that question. But in the long run, the abortion debate itself probably does. Look at the home page of the National Right to Life Committee , and...

I've written about abortion as an election issue before, but this story shows why it's important to think about what type of justices a President McCain or President Obama might select: TAKOMA PARK, Md. -- A baby girl was found inside a bag and died a short time later. Now police are searching for the newborn's parents. The bag containing the baby was found at about noon Sunday by workers clearing an overgrown field near a church near the 6300 block of New Hampshire Avenue in Takoma Park. Emergency workers were called to the scene and performed CPR, but the girl died about an hour later at a local hospital. I don't want to say that this type of thing will increase if abortion are outlawed outright, but it's just as likely to happen as those "backroom illegal abortions." Only in this case, the reasoning for the person leaving the baby in the dumpster is: "They had the child, so they didn't commit abortion. If anything, they are guilty of abandonme...

Barack Obama vs John McCain = Obi-Wan Kenobi vs General Grievous . Doug Duncan leaves the University of Maryland . So much for the bailout . The words "teacher" and "porn" should never be in the same news headline , unless it's " TEACHER UNRAVELS PORN RING ". General Petraeus is leaning towards Obama with his concerns over Afghanistan and Pakistan .

In this portrayal, Barack Obama is Obi-Wan Kenobi, and John McCain is General Grievous.

The secret behind Janet Jackson's sudden tour suspension has been revealed.

If there was ever a reason to compare Batman to the 2008 Presidential Election ...

Wow. And Yuck . HONG KONG – Hong Kong has found an eighth child with kidney stones after drinking Chinese-made milk contaminated with an industrial chemical, the government said Wednesday. The 8-year-old boy was hospitalized after being diagnosed with a stone in his right kidney, the Department of Health said in a statement. He has blood in his urine but did not show symptoms of renal problems, government spokesman Lam Tsz-wai said. The Hong Kong boy has been drinking three packs of pure milk produced by Chinese dairy Yili Industrial Group Co. each week since 2003, Lam said. Yili products were earlier confirmed to contain melamine, which was used to make plastics and fertilizers. I will be bringing my own dairy products whenever I visit Hong Kong, thankyouverymuch.