Since he had so much fun with Kill Bill's Japanese scenes, Quentin Tarantino wants to do a chop-sockey movie in Mandarin, reports the BBC.

But there's a twist:

A tongue-in-cheek Canadian website is offering to help hook up single American liberals with their Canadian counterparts to dodge four more years of Dubya.

Here is what MarryAnAmerican.ca says:

The New Yorker ran an article in the spring called Fight on the Right. It was about Republican Senator Arlen Specter's fight in Pennsylvania to retain his party's nomination.

Ultimately, the old-skool Republican moderate did that ...   more »

Read this excerpt from what I think will become known as a seminal article on Dubya by Ron Suskind in the Oct. 17 NYT Magazine:

I attach for your linking pleasure columns from Thomas L. Friedman, Maureen Dowd and William Safire on the U.S. election, plus a bonus editorial:

"I never thought I'd say this, but I really miss voter fraud." :)