More importantly, though, doesn’t it seem as if the McCain campaign’s talking points on Palin need a complete overhaul?

The McCain campaign said Palin opposed the infamous “bridge to nowhere.” That’s false. The campaign said Palin supported the Bush “surge” policy. That’s false. The campaign said Palin is the “commander in chief” of the Alaska National Guard. That’s misleading. The campaign said Palin is qualified on foreign policy because she lives in a state near Russia. That’s dumb.

And the campaign boasted about Palin “taking on” Stevens, and that’s wrong. Did the person who wrote the talking points have any idea who Sarah Palin is?

[From Palin and Stevens]

On September 10, 2001, Senator Biden, then (as now) chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, prophetically warned of the new Bush administration’s exclusive focus on missile defenses in a speech at the National Press Club. He said, “We will have diverted all that money to address the least likely threat while the real threats come into this country in the hold of a ship, or the belly of a plane, or are smuggled into a city in the middle of the night in a vial in a backpack.” [From Joe Cirincione: Joe Knows National Security]

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Set List:

Sunshine of your love
Message in a bottle
Walking on the Moon
Demolition man
When the world is running down
Don’t stand so Close
Driven to tears
Hole in my life
Every little thing
Wrapped around
De doo de Daa
Invisibile sun
Can’t stand Losing You

Intermission shaving Sting

Purple haze
Roxanne
King of pain
So lonely
Been down so long (short)
Every breath

Intermission

Next to you

If I were a right-wing blogger, and I found out that Barack Obama was wearing Ferragamo loafers that cost $520, I would spend about 50% of my waking hours making sure everyone knew this. I would mock him for being an out-of-touch elitist and make jokes like, “If you think that’s a lot, you should see how much his purse costs ” I would send the link to Drudge and wait for Instapundit to pick it up, and then watch gleefully as Fox News ran segments about how Barack Obama’s $500 loafers vitiate his entire economic platform. But of course, I’m not a right-wing blogger. And the $520 shoes belong to John McCain. And frankly, I don’t think how much his shoes cost matters one whit for how he’d govern the country. [From Let's Play: If I Were a Right Wing Blogger]

If you’re like most people, you purchase Benadryl. A slightly smaller and savvier subset of you will always reach for the drugstore’s “generic” counterpart, e.g. Waldryl. Stop this madness, all of you.As you might know, Benadryl (available at Walgreens.com for $5.29 for a box of 24 capsules) and Wal-dryl ($3.99 / 24 capsules) are otherwise known as “25 mg. of diphenhydramine HCI.” Compare. Yes, that is 400 tablets containing 25 mg. of diphenhydramine HCI, for about $10 when you factor in shipping.

[From Snarkmarket: Lifehack of the Month: Truly Generic Pills]

Yet try as I might, it’s hard for me to feel outrage. The world can often seem vicious and arbitrary, and this video would seem to be a good example of that. However, while you can’t account for everything, there are some immutable truths in this world, and knowing them can give you a significant advantage. And one of the most important truths I’ve learned is that where there are crowds there is stupidity. When large numbers of people get together, stupid things happen, and you’re almost always better off simply getting as far away from the crowd as possible.

For example, I regularly pass an Apple store, and for the last few weeks there has been a line around the corner. As you probably know, this line consists of people who are waiting to purchase the new iPhone. Many of these people not only own iPhones already but actually use them while they’re waiting on the line, presumably to tell their employers that they will not be getting any work done today because they are waiting to purchase an item designed to help them be more efficient. Apparently, they’re not aware that Apple is creating these lines on purpose, and they’re unwitting participants in what is actually a giant Apple commercial. Instead, they think that despite the iPhone’s popularity Apple might suddenly decide to stop selling the phone forever, and that if they don’t wait on line today they’ll never, ever own one.

[From Surly Cross-Check: Cranky Cop Coldcocks Critical Masser]

Your Bush administration at work: When it’s politically convenient, the war on terror is vitally important. When it’s not, it’s not. [From Mayberry Machiavellis]

There are certainly reasons for evangelicals to have concerns about Obama — based on his extreme views on abortion, judicial nominees, Iraq (his plans for a precipitous withdrawal would probably trigger mass death and perhaps even genocide) and other issues. But critics of Obama have an obligation to provide a fair and honest critique, and the attacks leveled by Dobson fall terribly short of that standard.
[From Dobson vs. Obama - washingtonpost.com]