$2.28: The price for a gallon of gas at my pit stop. Tanking the American economy is one way to lower gas prices.

Grand(iose) jury: A Marshall County grand jury will decide — probably late next week — whether criminal charges are warranted in Recorder-gate, the faux controversy sparked when a GOP operative stashed an audio recorder on Bruce Lunsford’s podium during a McConnell-Lunsford debate and then didn’t get it back for 30 minutes. Lunsford says he’ll tell the grand jury he was illegally bugged — a felony in KY. 

Top 25: Celebrating Halloween early, the Boston Phoenix posted the 25 Scariest Conservatives in the country. Agh!

Where’s Biden?: With a lead in the national polls and perhaps to also protect the Democratic VP candidate from himself, Time Magazine writes that the Obama campaign is trying its best keep the Delware Senator on a tight leash.

University of Effigies: All sorts of bad press has visited the University of Kentucky after an effigy of Barack Obama hanging from a tree was found on campus. So much that UK officials will host a forum to discuss the matter. It isn’t the only lynched B-Rock effigy in the region. Many are yelling “double standard” because of the volume of outrage over the Obama effigy is higher compared to the noosed Sarah Palin manequin. They’re right. The context of actual lynchings in this country’s history is the reason the combination of a noose, tree and black people is worrisome. Just as cartoons of a man’s hand punching Palin raise the ugly specter of domestic violence.