• The case for and against Gov. Charlie as McCain’s V.P.
• Meanwhile, the Gov.’s hob-nobbin’ with Prince Charles as Florida languishes in financial crisis.
• Al Gore’s got a 10-year plan that has the conservatives bouncing off the walls.
• “McCain, R-Ariz., the top Republican on the Senate Armed Service Committee, has attended zero of his committee’s six hearings on Afghanistan over the last two years.”
• The LA Times picks apart McCain’s campaign schedule. Brace yourselves folks: He’s basically just out raising money.
• Shoddy work by American contractors in Iraq has lead to hundreds of electrical fires and more than a few deaths.
• Sticks of Fire is already campaigning for a Best of the Bay award. What’s your website doing?
• Hollywood preps the cash registers for a record weekend.

Now realize McCain was against this bill, and even proposed an alternate version that did not contain the provisions he’s bragging on in this video.

• Seymore Hersh’s latest New Yorker piece, on Bush’s increased covert action against Iran, is a doozy.
• Obama takes aim at southern voters.
• Tampa looks at minimum zoning requirements.
• Wall Street feasts on finger nails before the open.
• Some cry over Wal-Mart’s spilled milk.
• Will they or won’t they? Hollywood actors prepare to strike.
• Checking in on Oliver Stone’s W.
• The Bucs re-sign Earnest Graham.

• Obama gives Clinton $2,300. (Side note: The Times should be shot for using that picture.)
• Novak says Colin Powell will endorse Obama at some point, but not because he’s a fan of Barack. No, he’ll do it to spite W.
• Speaking of traitors to their party: Time has a story on Joe Lieberman that made me puke in my mouth a little.
• Don’t blow your top trying to figure out the energy crisis, there’s a mountain of a solution out there.
• North Korea dynamites the cooling tower at the Yongbyon nuclear power plant.
• One barrel of oil = 28 Subway footlongs.
• This weekend’s viewing: WALL-E is a “Pixar masterpiece.”
• “Six Crazy Hollywood Stories You Probably Haven’t Heard.”