BIDEN TO WISCONSINITES: “You’re the dullest audience I’ve ever spoken to.”

From the comments: “And you’re the dumbest politician we’ve ever listened to.”

Hey, count your blessings both Joe and audience — at least nobody got sick.

HAPPY COUPLES ARE ON THE SAME PAGE — literally.

CLASSIC TV AND MOVIE CARS FROM DEAN JEFFRIES’ SHOP. I like the Green Hornet’s.

INSTAVISION: Rules for Radical Conservatives: Know Your Opponent and the Constitution. I talk with Michael “David Kahane” Walsh about his new book, Rules For Radical Conservatives. And show off my classy PJTV shirt.

MORE ON MARIO VARGAS LLOSA’S NOBEL PRIZE from Nick Gillespie. “The author of over 30 books – and very nearly the president of Peru – Vargas Llosa is one of the preeminent public intellectuals of the post-war era and one of the great libertarian heroes of the age at least since his highly public criticism of the Castro regime starting in the early 1970s.”

CBS POLL: OBAMA APPROVAL ON THE ECONOMY FALLS FURTHER:

President Obama’s job approval rating has changed little in the past few months, but with the economic recovery lagging desperately behind where most Americans would like it to be, his work to fix the ailing economy is scoring ever-lower marks.

The public is divided on the overall job he is doing now: 44 percent say they approve, while 45 percent disapprove in a new CBS News poll — virtually unchanged from last month.

The president’s rating on the economy, however, has taken a further plunge in the poll. Now, only 38 percent say they approve of the job he is doing handling the issue – which has been the problem weighing most heavily on the nation’s collective mind for months. Half of those questioned (50 percent) say they disapprove of his work on the economy.

Ouch.

THE HIGH COST of Muslim intolerance.

GREG BEATO: The Return of Debtor’s Prison: Collection agencies use the criminal justice system to pocket credit card debts.

J. CHRISTIAN ADAMS: More Disgrace: The Obama-Holder Justice Department Is Failing Our Military Voters.

VIDEO: TWENTY MONTHS IN TWO MINUTES.

WHAT’S KILLING THE BEES. Not cellphones. A virus/fungus combination.

THAT DOES SEEM TO BE HOW IT WORKS: If you don’t have anything nice to say, say it about Sarah Palin. Refresh my memory — what exactly has Sarah Palin done to anyone?

ASKING THE REALLY IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: “After sex, would you rather have deep conversation, or a deep-dish pizza?”

HMM: Scratched glasses give perfect vision for any eyesight. “Ditch those bifocals. You might soon wearing spectacles whose lenses allow you to see clearly regardless of how long or short-sighted you are. . . . Zeev Zalevsky at Bar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan, Israel, has developed a technique to turn a standard lens into one that perfectly focuses light from anything between 33 centimetres away and the horizon. It involves engraving the surface of a standard lens with a grid of 25 near-circular structures each 2 millimetres across and containing two concentric rings. The engraved rings are just a few hundred micrometres wide and a micrometre deep. ‘The exact number and size of the sets will change from one lens to another,’ depending on its size and shape, says Zalevsk.”

CHANGE: Hey, let’s prosecute “drunk drivers” who aren’t even drunk!

THE HILL: Study: Expiration of Bush tax cuts will hit poorest hardest. Shame on those heartless people in Congress who didn’t vote to extend them!

WHO NEEDS SECURITY ROBOTS, when you’ve got Security Monkeys?

SHOCKER: Rampant Fraud Threat to China’s Brisk Ascent. “The exposure of Mr. Zheng’s faked credentials provoked a fresh round of hand-wringing over what many scholars and Chinese complain are the dishonest practices that permeate society, including students who cheat on college entrance exams, scholars who promote fake or unoriginal research, and dairy companies that sell poisoned milk to infants. The most recent string of revelations has been bracing. After a plane crash in August killed 42 people in northeast China, officials discovered that 100 pilots who worked for the airline’s parent company had falsified their flying histories. Then there was the padded résumé of Tang Jun, the millionaire former head of Microsoft China and something of a national hero, who falsely claimed to have received a doctorate from the California Institute of Technology.”

IS GLENN GREENWALD HEARING THUNDER? Or is it just the ringing in his ears? Is there a crushed butterfly on his heel?

SUBSIDIES SEEM TO BE THE KEY HERE: Japan’s green-car subsidy comes to a halt; sales of subcompacts dip 12.2%.

CHANGE: Gallup: Unemployment rate back over 10%. “In yet another harbinger of tomorrow’s official jobless report, Gallup shows a sharp increase in unemployment for September, pushing their estimate of joblessness to 10.1%. The pollster also warns that tomorrow’s figure will miss some of the change, which will likely lull some into a sense that no action is needed. . . . With unemployment rising again, the upcoming holiday season could be another disaster like 2008. Job insecurity will result in more savings and more frugality in a season that makes or breaks retail businesses. The pending tax hikes will also have some with cash less likely to part with it as well. With that in mind, retailers are going to hire fewer people this holiday season in anticipation of lower demand, and Gallup warns this will mean a brutal fourth quarter for the economy.”

THE IRRESISTIBLE LURE of the Kindle impulse purchase.

WANT TO HELP MICHAEL YON AND SOLDIERS’ ANGELS OUT? Pre-order his book.

NEW YORK TIMES: Is the IRS targeting Republicans for audits? Surely they’re joking. . . .

TO PARAPHRASE HUMPREY BOGART, THERE ARE SOME SECTIONS OF THE BLOGOSPHERE I would not advise you to invade. Professor Jacobson’s is pretty high up on the list . . . .