• Jerry Brown, Meg Whitman, and the calling of the latter a 'whore.'

• Two dead even Senate races: Reid v. Angle in Nevada, and Joe Manchin, gun-toting alleged Democrat running against John Raese for Senate in West Virginia

• Ballot measures: what are they good for? Case in point: Prop 23, which would turn back the clock on climate change legislation

• The foreclosure morass/scandal/mess/brouhaha (Don't miss photos of the devastation.)

And of course, short ends! Don't ask don't tell in limbo, peace talks continue in Afghanistan, and the New Yorker's entertaining Nick Denton profile.

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Our show today was produced by Ariel Edwards-Levy of Annenberg Radio News. The opening song "Two States" by Pavement was used with the permission of BMI Music, Inc. The song "The Yellow Rose of Texas" by Mitch Miller was used with permission of ASCAP.