"John McCain ran one of the most incompetent, schizo campaigns in history — and for that we owe him big-time."

Politico on media bias during the election. "As it happens, McCain’s campaign is going quite poorly and Obama’s is going well. Imposing artificial balance on this reality would be a bias of its own."

Scott Tobias interviews John Hodgman about his new book, his minor television celebrity, The Daily Show, and the election.

"I'm a maverick!"

A bit surreal that Jim Cornette has written such a verbose political screed, but I'm not going to complain.

Great single serving site.

"The McCain health plan would treat employer-paid health benefits as income that employees would have to pay taxes on."

"if you put lipstick on my pig, do you know what the difference will be between that pig and a pit bull? I’ll tell you: a pit bull can easily kill a pig."

So that WSJ article, about Obama being too skinny? Turns out the WSJ writer - who had quoted people on a Yahoo message board - started the thread specifically asking people if he was too skinny. WHAT RESEARCH! WHAT JOURNALISM!

The only conclusion my average brain could derive from this is that Roland Martin hates America.

The Times takes a swing at Giuliani. Who is writing all these hit pieces, anyhow?