We’ll just let Philadelphia’s Lancaster’s WGAL handle this one:

None of the seven men portrayed in the ad are actually members of Casey’s Senate campaign team. One man referenced is actually dead.

Still way better than the creepy ones with Santorum’s 16 kids, though. People accuse us of exploiting the children of politicians, oy.

AdWatch: Santorum’s Ad Draws Fire [WGAL]

There's nothing like a good old-fashioned zombie costume to scare the bejeebers out of trick or treaters, and wikiHow's got a great (and pretty extensive) tutorial on exactly what constitutes a kickass zombie ensemble. One note:

Learn to do the dance from "Thriller." This is especially fun in a group. There are a few simple moves that are universally recognizable, and the dance helps separate "people having a fun time being zombies" from "people being weird being zombies."

This is JUST the excuse I've been waiting for to pop out my old Michael Jackson records. For even more zombie goodness, check out how to make your zombie costume....it's all about the braaiiinnnss, baby.— Wendy Boswell

While we've already posted an extensive Halloween Roundup, it has come to my attention that there is one necessary addendum: the Corpse Solar Light. The zombie is 17 inches of the most gruesome plastic you've ever seen. He holds a solar powered lantern in one hand...where is his other...maybe BEHIND YOU! Whoa. It's ok. Just relax. I didn't mean to actually scare you.

We're glad to see that even zombies are beginning to see the benefits of green technologies. $89 and you can still rush deliver for Halloween fun. Oh, and that Mike Tyson tattoo on his face is just the watermark. – Mark Wilson Thanks Michelle!

Product Page [via AmericanInventorSpot]

While we've already posted an extensive Halloween Roundup, it has come to my attention that there is one necessary addendum: the Corpse Solar Light. The zombie is 17 inches of the most gruesome plastic you've ever seen. He holds a solar powered lantern in one hand...where is his other...maybe BEHIND YOU! Whoa. It's ok. Just relax. I didn't mean to actually scare you.

We're glad to see that even zombies are beginning to see the benefits of green technologies. $89 and you can still rush deliver for Halloween fun. Oh, and that Mike Tyson tattoo on his face is just the watermark. – Mark Wilson Thanks Michelle!

Product Page [via AmericanInventorSpot]

• Photos from DC Zombie Lurch. [DC DISCOMBOBULATED]
• Halloween rape fantasy: “I’m white, reasonably good looking, experienced with this sort of play, respectful of limits (I insist we work out safewords, btw), friendly and probably someone you’d never expect this from.” [Craigslist]
• Howard Kurtz on Obama: “Experience? Who needs experience? That just makes you more vulnerable to negative ads.” [WP]
• The unabashed nerds in us bow to you, RSS readers. [prod & ponder]
• Adrian Fenty’s office spoils dribbleability comparison. [City Desk]

Everybody likes to “get in the spirit” of Halloween. Dennis Hastert is wearing his Jabba the Hutt costume, with Scott Palmer as Slave Leia. Ted Kennedy’s sporting his popular “Dead Kennedys” getup, and Laura Bush is once again dressed as “Evil soulless zombie monster baby-blood drinker.”

Worse yet, today’s political press releases and sound bites are loaded with stupid Halloween references:

• Majority whip Roy Blunt offers a twofer today: The Scary House of Representatives and Nancy Pelosi’s “Liberal Shop of Horrors.” There may be additional Halloween bits, but his staff made a very scary Web page with all the HTML visible, so we can’t actually read what’s in the press release. [Majority Whip]

• Nancy Pelosi “Speaker of the House” mask. [Nathan Tabor]

• Future Medicare program, costs scary. [Money Matters]

• The federal government is on track to run up some scary numbers without significant changes. [Indianapolis Star]

• Maybe we could decorate the poster with some ghoulish portraits of Bush, Cheney and adviser Karl Rove. No, that would be too frightening for children. [Capital Times]

• Halloween: Night Of Evil Politicians Cannot Understand Beyond The Ghastly And Bucketful Of Candies. [American Chronicle]

• Managing vampires and werewolves: Corporate America has its own special Halloween and its own special boogey men. [CNN Money]

The only secret the Glenda Dawson campaign is keeping is that she’s dead.

Dawson, a Republican state representative in Texas, died in September. Aware of how little a state legislator actually does, the campaign has continued as planned. New mailers went out this week showing a living Dawson with Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison. And if we’re understanding this article, Dawson is making campaign phone calls from beyond the grave. Which is awesome.

The guy behind Dawson’s ghostly run is State Rep. Dennis Bonnen: “We don’t suggest that there’s a great thing she’s going to accomplish for the voters in the future.” Polls show Dawson in the lead.

Mailer neglects to point out candidate’s death [Statesman]

District 29’s ballot will list a dead candidate [KHOU TV]

The nation’s oldest windbag, Gore Vidal, has solemnly sworn that tomorrow’s election is the most important in his lifetime.

More important than Lincoln’s election in 1860? More crucial than the Jefferson-Burr race of 1800? Jesus, this is sounding serious. What say ye, good patriot?

So, my fellow countrymen, as I sit here, not yet at Gettysburg, I have a notion that this is the most important vote that you’ll probably ever cast. Because should this gang of thugs continue in the two houses of Congress, there isn’t any chance of getting the Constitution back.

This should totally invigorate the Whigs.

Gore Vidal: ‘The Most Important Election in My Lifetime’ [Truthdig]

Ever since we saw The Serpent and the Rainbow as a little kid, we've had this unnatural fear of being buried alive. Well, a Russian inventor by the name of Vitaly Malyukov must have watched the same movie cause he's designed a casket with a built-in panic button that lets you contact the living in case your quack of a doctor accidentally pronounces you dead. Pushing the panic button, which glows in the dark, alerts the cemetery caretaker who can then dig you back up after they return from their lunch break, of course, which means you'll end up dead one way or another. No word on pricing or availability. – Louis Ramirez

Alarm Coffin [via Sci Fi Tech via New Launches]

We love zombies, you love zombies, so let’s just all rejoice in the many choices of zombie inspired t-shirts. These are all from Threadless and I have to say I’m impressed. These first few designs are the only ones you can actually purchase and wear as of right now. Coporate Zombie Zombie Donkey Of the Dead In Case [...]

We love zombies, you love zombies, so let’s just all rejoice in the many choices of zombie inspired t-shirts. These are all from Threadless and I have to say I’m impressed. These first few designs are the only ones you can actually purchase and wear as of right now. Coporate Zombie Zombie Donkey Of the Dead In Case [...]

We love zombies, you love zombies, so let’s just all rejoice in the many choices of zombie inspired t-shirts. These are all from Threadless and I have to say I’m impressed. These first few designs are the only ones you can actually purchase and wear as of right now. Coporate Zombie Zombie Donkey Of the Dead In Case [...]

Jesus Christ, we know the White House tends to age its occupants. We did not know it turns people into horrible zombie mummy monsters.

President Bush is greeted by former President Bill Clinton [Yahoo News]

In today’s “Heard on the Hill,” thrill to the terrifying tale of one Mississippi woman’s doomed correspondence with Senator Chuck Schumer, He-Who-Legislates-With-Ghosts!

On Monday of last week, the day before he led Senate Democrats to victory, Schumer responded to a nice lady in Mississippi who had written him with a request. He explained to her, “It has been a long tradition and Senatorial courtesy to refer correspondence to Senators representing the appropriate state… . For this reason, I am sure you understand why I am forwarding your correspondence to Senator Thad Cochran and Senator Strom Thurmond.”

That poor constituent — her Senator’s been dead for one hundred years!

Strom Thurmond, Spotted in Vegas [Roll Call]

Flesh chomping, brain biting, limb severing: why do zombies have all the fun? Now you can make your own edible little people and get some zombie revenge at the same time. With a little slicing and icing, simple gingerbread cookies morph into creepy yet delicious corpses for you to feast upon. And you don’t [...]

Flesh chomping, brain biting, limb severing: why do zombies have all the fun? Now you can make your own edible little people and get some zombie revenge at the same time. With a little slicing and icing, simple gingerbread cookies morph into creepy yet delicious corpses for you to feast upon. And you don’t [...]

Flesh chomping, brain biting, limb severing: why do zombies have all the fun? Now you can make your own edible little people and get some zombie revenge at the same time. With a little slicing and icing, simple gingerbread cookies morph into creepy yet delicious corpses for you to feast upon. And you don’t [...]

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While American politicians are usually Satanists or Vampires, EU politicians are animated corpses and/or mummies.

The corpse of the European Constitution is coming back to life and staggering around the EU’s corridors of power. [BBC News]

We missed Laura Bush on the Larry King show the other night, because there’s no way in hell we’re watching Larry King Live, ever. But our beloved Firstest Lady made some interesting remarks about her husband’s catastrophe over in Iraq:

“And many parts of Iraq are stable now. But, of course, what we see on television is the one bombing a day that discourages everybody.”

Actually, most days go by without any Iraq bombings on television, but we get the basic idea — it’s the same idea boldly expressed on Iraq Occupation fansites: The Main Stream Media is not telling us the Good News about Iraq!

The problem with Laura’s claim is that she’s totally full of shit. There are multiple bombings in Iraq every day. There are an average of 180 attacks on U.S. forces every single day, along with an average of 50 attacks on Iraqis and 30 attacks on those nine Iraqi Forces we’ve trained.

Dear Laura, it’s not one attack a day in Iraq, it’s 230 [America Blog]
Interview With Laura Bush/”The Lost Tomb of Jesus” [CNN]

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If you visit Threadless then you know that getting a reprint of a shirt can be a long awaited event. Some designs are just really popular and sell out quickly, but even so it can take a while to reprint. That’s why when we saw the In Case of Zombies shirt reprinted as of yesterday, [...]