Etc.

Yet another southern Oregon person has won a major contest, or, in this case, sweepstakes.

This guy won the Publishers Clearing House sweepstakes where the top prize was $5,000 a week for life PLUS $5,000 a week for life for another person.

I wish him the best of luck. I wish I could get something like that, but I probably can never do it.
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Phyllis Schlafly, close to 90 years old, is still out there raising a ruckus. This time she is furious over a hypothetical "joke" Republican operative Karl Rove told about Todd Akin being murdered. The "joke" was a reference to all kinds of conspiracy theories especially popular among Democrats that Karl Rove was involved in this or that even if he wasn't.

Schlafly called on Rove to resign over his Akin remarks. Presumably she is referring to Rove resigning from his PAC.
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Dinesh D'Souza, a think tank right-winger who has a new movie out about the "real Obama," gets skewered royal.

Dinesh pulls all kinds of nonsense out of his ass. It's laughable because Obama probably is closer in ideology to Dinesh than to traditional Democratic ideals.
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So how did Clint do it? Or, more to the point, how in the hell did the Romney campaign allow Clint to get up there on national television and make a fool out of himself?

Behind the scenes, Mr. Eastwood’s convention cameo was cleared by Mr. Romney’s top message mavens, Russ Schriefer and Stuart Stevens, who drew up talking points that Mr. Eastwood included, in his own way. They gave him a time limit and flashed a blinking red light that told him his time was up. He ignored both. The actor’s decision to use a chair as a prop was last-minute, and his own.

“The prop person probably thought he was going to sit in it,” a baffled senior aide said on Thursday night.

Mr. Eastwood’s rambling and off-color appearance just moments before the biggest speech of Mr. Romney’s life instantly became a Twitter and cable-news sensation, which drowned out much of the usual postconvention analysis that his campaign had hoped to bask in.

It also startled and unsettled Mr. Romney’s top advisers and prompted a blame game among them. “Not me,” an exasperated-looking senior adviser said when asked who was responsible for Mr. Eastwood’s speech. In interviews, aides called the speech “strange” and “weird.” One described it as “theater of the absurd.”

That's putting it mildly.