American expats in Europe, please proceed in an orderly fashion to your nearest ATM – because tonight, drinks are on you!

Bloomberg is reporting what those of us too broke not to worry about such things already know – that the U.S. dollar, sinking like a Boilermaker shotglass for over a year now, has risen at a dizzying rate since early August to a 13-month high of $1.38 to the euro.

This chick says it has nothing to do with America’s economic crisis, but it’s funny how it all seemed to happen at once. Could it be that, like my super-rich friend and a top hedge fund manager, everyone is moving their money to T-Bills?  Don’t know, and don’t care – I’M RICH!
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We forgot all about this until a friend sent us a reminder — Colbert’s still running for President in the Marvel Universe, just like Talibunny is running for Vice President in our Rod Serling dimension. The latest Spider-Man issue features an eight-page story — in continuity! Which we think means Patrick Duffy won’t turn up in the shower next issue and take it all back.

Spider-Man & Stephen Colbert Team Up In Amazing Spider-Man #573! [Marvel]

Stephen Colbert’s Marvel Universe Campaign [Comedy Central]

We can’t decide whether the birds represent questions and Tippi is Talibunny, or whether the birds are Talibunny’s answers and Tippi is us. Either way, grab some potent potables, because we’re all playing Jeopardy in tonight’s VeepSqueak Liveblog/Open Thread/Suicide Pact!

As usual, the rules are simple: Find every excuse you can to drink. You’ll be better off tomorrow with a hangover instead of the soul-destroying realization that she could be President in four months.

And no, we haven’t forgotten Plugz. We’re just ignoring him. Like the rest of America.

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Politico reports that John McCain is bagging his Michigan campaign. No TV, no mail-drops, staffers off to Wisconsin / Ohio / Florida.

(This does not mean that Barry can take Michigan for granted. There will still be a ground game because local Republicans can’t move to Wisconsin / Ohio / Florida, and the 527s are hitting Obama-as-Kilpatrick. Still: damn.)

UPDATE:  here’s an even better Palin answer generator.

No, this is not from the Sarah Palin quote generator – it’s real:

Couric: What other Supreme Court decisions do you disagree with?

Palin: Well, let’s see. There’s, of course in the great history of America there have been rulings, that’s never going to be absolute consensus by every American. And there are those issues, again, like Roe v. Wade, where I believe are best held on a state level and addressed there. So you know, going through the history of America, there would be others but …

Couric: Can you think of any?

Palin: Well, I could think of, any again, that could be best dealt with on a more local level. Maybe I would take issue with. But, you know, as mayor, and then as governor and even as a vice president, if I’m so privileged to serve, wouldn’t be in a position of changing those things but in supporting the law of the land as it reads today.

More of the Palin horror show after the jump.

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Alaska Turns Out to Revile The End-Timer Talibunny

Alaska’s raging disgust with the end-timer vice presidential candidate Sarah ‘Talibunny’ Palin grows by the hour, driven by her breathtaking campaign mendacity and the fact that she handed over control of the state to GOP reprobate-at-large Karl Rove, a character successful principally through his eagerness to chew the smegma off of George W. Bush’s genitals, hardly an exemplar of the frontier values held dear by workaday Alaskans.

Palin Approval Ratings Drops in Alaska [Anchorage Daily News]

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Ever on the lookout for excuses to post Frisky Dingo graphics, today we find cause to feature Darcell Jones of Team Jaguar, Grace Ryan’s arch-nemesis for the local TV news Peabody. Darcell kicks ass, takes names, and never fails to look hot when she does it.

Which brings us to Gwen Ifill.

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