Politics and other nightmares

NBC's political blog, in noting the shift to Obama in recent polls, says Indiana is probably "the surprise of the cycle":

I confess to not having followed the attorney general's race closely, so I can't say much yet about how the candidates compare. The Republican is currently the chieft deputy of the office, so that would seem to make him more qualified than the Democrat. But I don't think much of this campaign tactic:

Heaven forbid we should tighten credit:

I will continue supporting efforts to pass legislation to restore credit flow to homeowners, businesses, farmers and all the people who, by the very nature of their businesses, need to borrow money to maintain their activity and keep employees," Lugar said Friday.

The things they teach in school these days:

SOUTH BEND — Carmen Chandler, 19, didn't have a favorite in the presidential race before Friday night's televised debate between Sen. John McCain and Sen. Barack Obama.

"Now I'm leaning toward Obama," she said afterward.

Chandler, an Indiana University South Bend student from Mishawaka, was disturbed by McCain's support for additional nuclear power plants. "I'm an environmentalist," she said.

Looks like McCain blinked:

Republican John McCain agreed to attend the first presidential debate tonight even though Congress doesn't have a bailout deal, reversing an earlier decision to delay the event until Washington had taken action to address the crisis.

Well, duh:

Mankind's very survival depends on the future exploration of space, said NASA chief Michael Griffin in an interview with AFP marking the 50th anniversary of the US space agency.

This journey, said the veteran physicist and aerospace engineer, is full of unknowns and has only just begun.

Well, hell, let's bail them out, too. What's a lousy $1 billion considering the numbers we're talking about today?  As a matter of fact, everybody get in line. Airlines, you're right behind the automakers. One-chair barber shops, come on down!

In an effort to combat its budget deficit of over $1 billion, the United States Postal Service is, allegedly, trying to upsell its premium services while hiding its less expensive options.

In case you haven't been paying attention:

In Washington these days, an 11-figure expenditure barely attracts notice.

This is one of the oddest arguments I've seen this political season:

Still paying off a building after it's torn down. Only government would have the audacity to do something so breathtakingly irrsponsible:

INDIANAPOLIS -- Indianapolis leaders on Wednesday did what a homeowner could never legally do -- demolish a building while the mortgage is still unpaid.