Random: Too Little, Too Late, Too Many Terriers.

• "In the summer of 1916, for example, a dramatic ­week­long series of shark attacks along New Jersey beaches left four people dead...Letters poured into congressional offices demanding federal action; but what action would be effective in such circumstances? ... When President Woodrow ­Wilson—­a former governor of New Jersey with strong local ­ties—­ran for reelection a few months later, he was punished at the polls, losing as much as 10 percent of his expected vote in towns where shark attacks ­had occurred." [WWQ]

• "Hanging around with terriers." [NBC]

• "Lorraine Minnite of Barnard College...noted that "between 2002 to 2005 only one person was found guilty of registration fraud. Twenty others were found guilty of voting while ineligible and five were guilty of voting more than once. That's 26 criminal voters." Twenty-six criminal voters despite the fact that U.S. attorneys, like David Iglesias in New Mexico, were fired for searching high and low for vote-fraud cases to prosecute and coming up empty." [Slate]

• "There's no word about what Palin may do on the show." [NYDN]

• "It's not that the squiggly lines aren't fun to watch. Rather, they're too much fun to watch. It's hard to avert your eyes from them. It's hard to separate your own, independent reaction from theirs. And it's certainly hard to integrate back into to the non-squiggly universe once you've gotten hooked on the squigglys." [TNR]

• Burton actually looks kinda hot. [GQ]