Today in Salon: I ghost-wrote letters to the editor for the McCain campaign

Today in Salon: Wednesday September 24, 2008

I ghost-wrote letters to the editor for the McCain campaign I spent a morning in John McCain's Virginia campaign headquarters ghost-writing letters to the editor for McCain supporters to sign. I even pretended to have a son in Iraq By Margriet Oostveen

Open Salon Do You Love Your Mother? Palin Candidacy Leads to Serious Democratic Puppet Making Happy Singles Week! The Other Side of Darkness: Prelude

Vedder's Cubs ditty a hit The Pearl Jam leader manages the rare sports song that's actually pretty good. What are some others? King Kaufman

The fungible candidate Fact-checking Sarah Palin, who "knows more about energy than probably anyone else in the United States of America." By Joseph Romm

How ghost-writing letters to the editor for McCain works Salon asked Margriet Oostveen for proof that she had ghost-written letters to the editor for the McCain campaign. Here are the guidelines, talking points, and sample letters she was given. By Mark Schone

Diagnosing Chuck Klosterman Wildly praised and pathologically reviled, the writer who built a career on pop-cultural essays explains why he has written a novel about small-town America. By Sarah Hepola

Thomas Friedman wants a revolution Only an uprising in green technology will revive America and promote world democracy, the New York Times columnist now argues. By Nathalie Gorman

How the World Works Wall Street on trial The ghost of Phil Gramm How much is toxic debt worth? Jon Tester asks a good question Senators go on the bailout warpath A bailout and a tax cut in every corporate pot How to give struggling homeowners a break

Where is the outrage? John McCain decries greed on Wall Street and suggests a commission be formed to look into the problem. This is like Casanova coming out for chastity. By Garrison Keillor

Video Dog Bateman: The stock market is like a roller coaster

Our developmentally challenged cleaning men are annoying I work in a social service agency and am as sensitive as you can get, but there should be some rules. These guys disrupt our work. By Cary Tennis

The K Chronicles Imagining how Fox and the like would react if Sarah Palin were a black Democrat. By Keith Knight

Broadsheet Lindsay Lohan is dating a woman, and grass is green U.K. criminalizes johns

War Room Uh-oh: McCain spending in Indiana Credit crunch Women not giving to McCain as much Sarah Palin, ornery Alaskan Debate prep Joe Biden's "better" instincts New state polls look good for Obama Tipping state: Colorado or Ohio?

Glenn Greenwald Salon Radio: Notre Dame finance professor Richard Sheehan David Brooks thinks he sees a "new establishment" to run economic policy

Mean girl Sarah Palin has a way of using "old boys" -- then dumping them when they become inconvenient. By David Talbot

The pro-Derek Jeter backlash It starts here. Just because he's overhyped and overpraised doesn't mean he's not an all-time great. King Kaufman

An open letter to independent and undecided voters You're sick of politics as usual and just want results. Should you pick Obama or McCain? By Gary Kamiya

"When Will There Be Good News?" Kidnapping, romance, comedy -- Kate Atkinson's delightfully inventive "When Will There Be Good News?" is much more than just another crime novel. By Laura Miller

Will Arizona leave John McCain blue? Barack Obama won't win Arizona, but Democrats down the ballot are poised for a big year on John McCain's home turf. By Mike Madden

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