Saturday Morning Open Thread

Good morning.

17 days.

Bob Geiger has compiled the week's best editorial cartoons...hysterical. John McCain bears the brunt this week.

The poem of the week is "Coming Thro' the Rye" by Robert Burns. It's the poem from "Catcher in the Rye" but it's not about innocence. (It's about sex.)

Should be a busy weekend as both presidential candidates campaign in what have been red states. John McCain's options are diminishing, which means the GOP will only get nastier and uglier. How much lower can they go? That means we all just have to work harder.

Also, one tidbit. Yesterday, I posted a video of Rep. Michelle Bachmann's insane rant on MSNBC. It was one of the most bizarre and disturbing performances I've seen this year. When I linked to the ActBlue page of her opponent, Elwyn Tinklenberg, his total raised was under $4,000. But, across the progressive blogosphere, there was a visceral reaction to Bachmann. This morning, Tinklenberg's ActBlue page has raised over $100,000.

Let's get it started....