American global dominance is expected to decrease in coming years; China, Russia and India may challenge US influence. Attorney General Mukasey collapsed during a speech last night. Verizon workers sneaked a peek at Obama's old cell phone records. We should know Hillary Clinton's status in the Obama administration later today. Maybe. Sarah Palin pardons one turkey, while another unfortunate turkey faces a different fate behind her comments afterward. Best cranberry relish recipe ever? Say it ain't so, ABC! Pushing Daisies cancelled....

Hillary Clinton, possible Secretary of State, what? Sarah Palin can't quit Joe the Plumber. Automaker bailout chances dwindling. 14-year-old Chicago girl conducts social experiment by wearing "McCain Girl" shirt to school one day, "Obama Girl" shirt the next, and writing down the comments made to her. Sarkozy to Putin: "do you want to end up like [President] Bush?" FDA blocking Chinese imports containing milk. First photos released of planets outside of our solar system.......

Report: Republican National Committee shells out $150,000 on Palin's wardrobe Stocks slumped this morning as fear of a recession mounted Hacker who published provocative Miley Cyrus photos raided by FBI India blasts off for a moon mission San Francisco considers decriminalizing prostitution Yahoo to dump 1,500 workers as slump deepens Philadelphia and Tampa Bay meet tonight in World Series opener......

C. Po backs Barack. "Looking for bottom." Sarah Palin. Hil-AR-ious. (Read with sarcasm). ACORN squash. Turnabout. Fair play? Speaking of controversial choices. Maybe she had her learner's permit? ...

Axis of evil - now with less Korea. W, meet F. F, W. Tight trouser crackdown. I'm not Iron Man, nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh, Sherlock Holmes. More childhood memories being exploited for profit. Cross your reptilian fingers. La la la la la. This woman takes the fun out of everything....

“Well,” I asked Chris, upon the conclusion of the recent Austin City Limits taping of Duffy, “what did you think?” “I wanted to like her…” he said, trailing off. Bingo and ditto. Oh how I wanted to like the young Brit with the big pipes and the hit song Mercy. But oh how, during her short performance, did I find my mind drifting to the critical place. Now, there was a time in my life when being critical and sarcastic was high priority. It’s part of my grew-up-in-Jersey legacy—greet everyone with suspicion and resent others for success that you determine is truly undeserved while wondering how your own talents, which are far, far greater, have slipped recognition....

Ifill: Palin "blew me off." Obama raises shocking possibility of Republican smear tactics. One more month. Tina Fey. Total hoot. Hollaback, Hasselbeck. Regarding chicken: cook it....

Senate to vote today on the bailout plan (or rescue plan, if you like) Journalism major Palin doesn't name a single paper she reads Somali pirates still holding tanks and weapons for ransom Latest weather forecast for Mars: snow! New York mayor Bloomberg wants to stick around for a third term White Sox win playoff; baseball post-season set to begin Officer expects house cat, gets cougar......

South Carolina Mayor wonders: Could Obama be the Antichrist? Bailout agreement tentative. Google feels good about gay marriage, bad about Prop 8. Martial law in the US? Huh. Some conservatives not backing Palin. Wall Street not wicked popular. Chavez wants the bomb....

Following last night's Fantastic Fest/U.S. premiere of Zack & Miri Make a Porno, the Alamo Drafthouse hosted the final round of their year-long Air Sex Championships. The result was anything but ordinary. After the jump, we've reposted some footage that Spout captured from the evening's festivities. The potentially NSFW clip features, among other interesting things, what we can only describe as a fitting homage to our esteemed GOP Presidential+VP candidates.......

Central banks doing their part to help world's money markets And just how did we get into this mess, again? AP isn't handing hacked Palin emails over to the Secret Service. Rachel Maddow on McCain and the women's vote (video). Are you a C.J. or a Charlie? Ike has claimed 55 lives - 6 of those in Texas. Use of female suicide bombers growing more prevalent in Iraq.......

Global markets don't look good. Joe Biden is very disappointed. (Join the club.) Palin won't talk to the Troopergate investigators. Well, that's one way to handle it. The Bridge to Nowhere is still in the works. Why they gotta be so unkind to Willy Wonka? New iPod Nano is vaguely eco. Palin Darque.......

Uncle Sam takes guardianship of Fannie and Freddie Cuba: We Don't Like Ike We can put a man on the moon, but what's the deal with these damn elections? Kim Jong Il: For real? Palin, Gibson. Gibson, Palin. OMG it's BRITNEY Y'ALL! Judge: Don't come in here like BRITNEY, Y'ALL! ...

Like Republican VP nominee, Sarah Palin, I, too, am a hunter and a fisherwoman. In fact, I like to combine the two by shooting fish in a barrel. Which is why, though I know I’m way late to the over-saturated sport known as hurl-shit-at-the-unvetted-candidate-chosen-for-her-good-looks-lack-of-penis-and-radical-conservatism, I just can’t resist. Let’s examine the obvious, shameless marketing first. Apparently, to illustrate her point that no woman should ever be allowed to have an abortion (except in very extreme cases, which I will get back to in a minute) Palin came up with an elaborate plot not only to have five children, but to make sure one of them has Down Syndrome, just so she could point to her holier-than-the-rest-of-us self. Even Pappy and Babs Bush didn’t stoop so low as to play the Retard Card, despite the fact they, too, have a mentally disabled son, one who managed to land a job in the White House....

Palin takes the stage tonight to speak to Republican convention Google releases a new web browser, called Chrome, to take on Microsoft Following up on Gustav, Tropical Storm Hanna expected to hit Friday US plans to send $1 billion in aid to rebuild Georgia Don LaFontaine, the voice you know from movie trailers, dies at 68 The Williams sisters, Venus and Serena, meet in US Open quarterfinals Study finds the older the father, the......

Gustav pushing back RNC plans.