Weekend Update - September 20th

• Every white woman Mark Morford knows is positively horrified. And with good reason, we might add.


• Poor John McCain. Can't seem to keep that pesky stuff concerning the National Guard and the U.S. Army straight. Now, which is which?


• "John McCain, who has risen to political prominence on his image as a Vietnam POW war hero, has, inexplicably, worked very hard to hide from the public stunning information about American prisoners in Vietnam who, unlike him, didn't return home." Read "McCain and the POW Cover-up," from The Nation.


• Here's a Looking Back feature on thankfully deceased Lee Atwater, and how today's ugly campaigning is all part of his legacy.


• Jonathan Alter of Newsweek writes "McCain and the Zig-Zag Express."


• The pastor whose prayer Sarah Palin says helped her to become governor of Alaska founded his ministry with a witchhunt against a Kenyan woman who he accused of causing car accidents through demonic spells. Praise Jesus.


• A senior Republican on the Senate banking committee, said in a television interview that cost to the government of purchasing bad debt could run to $1 trillion. Seems to me that Reaganomics is finally in the toilet. Our country is in deep trouble.
• It's Linda Perry's birthday. Ohmygawd I've got to get some flowers!