Katie, I'd like to use my lifeline

All About Energy, Bail Outs and Rape Kits

Meltdown and The Bush Doctrine

• Transforming a Hay Wagon Into a Ferrari
• The 3 A.M. Call
  
• Saturday Night Live, SNL: Katie Couric and Palin (Sept. 25, 2008)
• Sarah Palin Interview with CBS's Katie Couric, tragically almost as funny as SNL
• David Letterman Reacts to John McCain Suspending Campaign
• Obama on the Letterman Show, and the Truth about Lipstick

From the New York Times and other media:

1. Behind Insurer's Crisis, Blind Eye to a Web of Risk
2. Host of Ties to Gambling from the Maverick
3. Mc's Aide's Firm Was Paid by Freddie Mac
4. Victims Pay for Rape Kits
5. Bridge to Nowhere
6. Mc's Secret, Questionable Record

Into a Thicket

This senator intended to ride back into Washington on Thursday, Sept. 25, as a leader who had put aside presidential politics to help broker a solution to the financial crisis. Instead he found himself in the midst of a remarkable partisan showdown, lacking a clear public message for how to bring it to an end.

Some ride.