JEW-COUNTERS FOR MCCAIN. According to Think Progress, Fred Malek, John McCain's new funding co-chair, was one of Richard Nixon's Jew-counters -- as in he, uh, counted Jews in the Bureau of Labor Statistics because Nixon though a cabal of them were doctoring the numbers -- and, when he was younger, got arrested for killing, skinning, and barbecuing a dog. I would like, right now, before we get any farther, to thank this election for not being boring. --Ezra Klein