Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert: Mock the Vote, from Entertainment Weekly, courtesy of Alison.

Alaska vs. Hawaii: Why is Seward's Folly the "real America" and the Aloha State not?, from Slate.

Diamond and Kashyap on the Recent Financial Upheavals, from The New York Times - Freakonomics Blog.

The Old Neighborhood: My Alaska, and Sarah Palin's, deserves better from America, from Slate.

Where Did the Government Get $85 Billion?: Was it just lying around somewhere?, from Slate.

Adam Smith Meets Climate Change: How the theory of moral sentiments could be applied to cap-and-trade greenhouse-gas emissions, from Slate.