• In news that will resonate with parents everywhere, Sasha and Malia Obama are apparently shirking their doggie duties at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Says mom: "I'm still up at 5:15 a.m. taking my dog out." [People]

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Yeah, it's the last one for the forseeable future, so we've got your Bristol Palin baby update, Peggy Noonan, Barack Obama, C-sections, purple drank, Detroit, and 6 of your favorite Crappy Hourists all together.

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Another Friday, another week in which our country tumbles into financial ruin, the Presidential race tumbles further into the gutter and some Americans tumble further into an ugly, inexplicable, terrifying rage...so who better to try and soothe me with assertions about how it all doesn't matter because we're just going … Read…

• Sarah Palin is, like, so annoyed that Katie Couric, like, insisted on asking questions and talking about what she wanted to talk about instead of just letting Sarah bash Obama. Because that's how an "interview" works. To be fair, though, Palin had been on Fox News with Hannity first. [Huffington Post]
• She was also really …

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• Sacha Baron Cohen's fashionisto alter ego, the fey Austrian Bruno, stormed the catwalk in layers of schmatte during Agatha Ruiz de la Prada's runway show, setting off a security panic. Ultimately they had to call the police; all this will obvs end up in the upcoming Bruno movie. [Perez Hilton]
• Responding to the extreme …

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It's finally Friday and even though Jason Read…

The convention is over! I'll be able to sleep again (except for today). Naturally, there's only one person with whom I Read…

Peggy Noonan can normally be relied upon to sound completely rational and completely batty at the same time, which frankly puts her three steps above Maureen Dowd in my book even though Dowd (supposedly) shares my political leanings and Noonan doesn't. But today's column Read…