Setter on the Roof

11:15 AM -- Light Readers want to know: How did the Mitt Romney family wagon get covered in dog poo? TIME explains:

Romney strapped a dog carrier — with the family dog Seamus, an Irish Setter, in it — to the roof of the family station wagon for a twelve hour drive from Boston to Ontario, which the family apparently completed, despite Seamus's rather visceral protest.

Like father, like son, it seems. When Mitt's dad, George, said he'd been "brainwashed" on the Vietnam War, Sen. Eugene McCarthy replied, "Brainwashed? With Romney a light rinse would do."

— Larry, Attack Monkey, Light Reading