Weekend Update - September 28th

• Okay, so let's start this week's Update with "Sarah Palin's Secret Lover Revealed!" We can only go up from here.


• Mark Morford comments on the good news and the bad news of California's latest insane propositions.


• The NYT reports that John McCain has many ties to gambling. McCain a gambler?


• Soon after Sarah Palin was elected mayor of the foothill town of Wasilla, Alaska, she startled a local music teacher by insisting in casual conversation that men and dinosaurs coexisted on an Earth created 6,000 years ago -- about 65 million years after scientists say most dinosaurs became extinct -- the teacher said. Holy crap, indeed.


• Did Sarah Palin's nonsensical blathering to Katie Couric successfully lower the bar for her debate that all she needs to do is speak coherently to win?


• "This is the attention-deficit-disorder campaign," said a bewildered senior Republican operative. "They've had a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week."


• Sources say Alberto Gonzales now claims that President Bush personally directed him to John Ashcroft's hospital room in the infamous wiretap renewal incident—and that in another instance the President asked him to fabricate fictitious notes. That's our Dubya. Which brings us naturally to this question: Should George Bush be prosecuted for murder?