Okay, so I take that “day of rest” thing pretty literally and don’t usually see the Sunday Morning Yakfests when they’re first broadcast, but I’ll often do a little catching up once a more civilized hour of the day has come around. And often, I will discover the inadvertent hilarity I missed.
John McCain was on Meet the Press this morning, but since he was campaigning in Iowa, he appeared via satellite from Waterloo. Yes, Waterloo.
You’d think someone, anyone on his staff would’ve stopped and said “Um… Maybe there’s some symbolism …

The sheriff of Cook County, Illinois who announced he would stop serving eviction notices gave in after only a week. On October 9th, Sheriff Tom Dart said he would stop serving notices because the collection agencies weren’t doing their job in ensuring that the proper people were being evicted. The main problem came from renters who had not been informed by their landlord that the building had fallen into foreclosure. Apparently the collection agencies offered to do a better job because Dart returned to eviction enforcement on October 16th.

Twelve politically themed stencils have been provided by the AP for those who’d like to get their wonk on for Halloween. Choose from the Republican elephant, Democratic donkey, a generic vote symbol, “McCain Palin”, the Obama symbol and faces that seem like they’d be a pain to carve out. The faces include Barack Obama, John McCain, Joe Biden, Sarah Palin, Michelle Obama, and Cindy McCain. Don’t worry- it won’t be the first time that Cindy McCain’s face has seen a knife.

I’m envious of Spencer Ackerman’s ability to write a thoughtful post even though he has a raging cold that isn’t responding to medication. I also have a cold and have barely managed to sit upright this week without it feeling like a major accomplishment. But onward I attempt to march. 
Sarah Palin, so fond of tossing out the term terrorist when it comes near a “Bill Ayers”, was asked by Brian Williams whether abortion clinic bombers are terrorists. She expressed some hesitancy at using the term in that connotation. : 
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