Visual source: Newseum
WaPo:
Boston tops forebearers with a blown nine-game lead and the worst September collapse to squander a postseason spot in baseball history.
Blame the starters.
Nate Silver:
The polls suggest that Rick Perry’s struggles in the debate — amplified by a storm of skepticism among influential Republicans — have taken a bite out of his numbers. But the spoils seem to have gone mainly to other conservative candidates in the race, rather than Mr. Romney.
Does that mean there will be two epic collapses from Massachusetts this season?
EJ Dionne:
Why conservatives hate Warren Buffett
TPM:
House Republicans have announced an investigation into Planned Parenthood's funding, in the latest move in the seemingly endless effort to cripple the women's health service provider.
Can we stop with the bullshit about "both parties are the same"? They're not close to being the same. In fact, one of them (the GOP) isn't close to being sane.
Gail Collins:
The latest stalemate in Washington has been over the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which had been running out of cash what with all the recent fires, floods, earthquakes, plagues of frogs and what have you. Republicans wanted to balance any new FEMA money with cuts elsewhere. Democrats said that when disaster strikes, the tradition is to pony up and deal with the financing issues later.
Republicans said yeah, and that’s how we wound up $14.7 trillion in the hole. And then the Democrats said no way, we got the hole from the Bush tax cuts, and then the Republicans kicked them in the groin and everybody had to go to the emergency room.
Equally at fault, eh? That's what's wrong with our media.
AP has a Q&A on listeria and cantaloupe:
Q&A: Key answers about the listeria-cantaloupe outbreak