Tuesday bits.

* Is it Tim Kaine? Staffers called in from all across Virginia for emergency meeting to discuss line of succession if Kaine steps down as governor.

* A Veronica Mars movie?

* Ten weird medical conditions, including the woman who can't stop orgasming, the girl allergic to water, and the boy who can't sleep.

* McCain goes after the Dungeons and Dragons lobby.

* Remember that whole Solzhenitsyn plagiarism thing? Turns out the original story was falsely attributed to Solzhenitsyn and actually came from a right-winger named Chuck Colson.

* And everyone is happy Rachel Maddow's been given her own show.

Questions for John McCain:

* Did your "cross in the dirt" story really happen, or did you lift it from The Gulag Archipelago?

* Why was it falsely reported that you were at the Rick Warren faith forum in a "cone of silence" during Obama's question, when in fact you had not yet arrived at the venue?

* Do you really think a person making $4.9 million in income a year is not rich? Do you really not consider yourself rich?

* Did you just lose Colorado?

Who was the dominant writer of the twentieth century, if indeed such a question even makes any sense at all? In rejecting Alexander Solzhenitsyn's claim on the title, the Paper Cuts blog nominates George Orwell. As you might expect from the last time we played this game, I don't think anyone can really challenge Joyce, unless it's Kafka or (maybe) Gabriel García Márquez.

Rest in peace, Alexander Solzhenitsyn.