Bonny Jean Jacobs, 78, the mother-in-law of Senator Joe Biden, Barack Obama's running mate and the Democratic Vice-Presidential nominee, has died after a long illness.

Do you want to know the percentage of white women who support vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin? What about college-educated versus high school-educated white women? Or those who also hunt?

No matter which party you're following this election season, I'm sure you've seen plenty of election-based spam, if you don't have a spam filter or use a webmail service such as Gmail.

Tina Fey has skewered Sarah Palin a few times already, and one of the problems (for Palin) with the skits are that they are uncannily right on, right down to using Palin's exact words as part of the comedy skit. If that doesn't tell you what a brain trust she is, what will?

Here is something interesting on Sarah Palin and racism and, I have to admit, somewhat unexpected even from the new equal-time-for-Democrats media. In an analysis piece, the AP writes:

Republican nominee Sarah Palin and Democratic nominee Joe Biden meet for their one and only vice presidential debate. The current economic crisis was the early focus in the much-anticipated 90-minute debate in St. Louis, Missouri. Viewers are wondering who won the VP debate. Let's see who did well.

U.S. vice-presidential nominees Sen. Joseph Biden and Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska square off tonight (9 PM Eastern Time) in their only scheduled debate of the campaign for the White House. What do the candidates need to do during the VP debate? What mistakes must they avoid? What should the astute observer look for?

Well, here's a case of extreme exaggeration at its best, and out-and-out lying at its worst. Wednesday morning on NPR, while discussing the financial crisis, talk (naturally) turned to his running mate, Sarah Palin. When questioned about her knowledge of foreign policy ... well, here's the transcript:

You may recall that White House Press Secretary Dana Perino was stumped when it came to the Cuban Missile Crisis. It could be noted that that event happened a pretty long time ago. However, the Supreme Court makes important decisions all the time; not every day, but frequently.

When a comedy skit uses much of your own words, some of it verbatim while not changing much of the rest, and at the same time pretty much echoing what you yourself said, what does that mean?

Paul Krugman joined Amy Goodman on Democracy Now! on Friday morning. Naturally much of the broadcast centered around the ongoing financial crisis. For those who don't know, Krugman is professor of economics and international affairs at Princeton University and a columnist at the New York Times.

According to columnist Andrew Sullivan, Palin’s child may actually be her grandchild.