SNIPPET OF THE DAY – AT 9:24 A.M. ET:

SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Brazil's election is a laughing matter again, at least for now.
Carlos Ayres Britto, vice president of the country's Supreme Court, late Thursday suspended a rule banning TV and radio programs from poking fun at candidates in the country's October 3 elections. 

These backward countries.  We don't have to poke fun at candidates here.  They do it to themselves.  That's progress.

August 31, 2010