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We’re ludicrously pro-Nick Park (who talks with Salon here), and are huge fans of “Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit.” That’s why we’re proud to feature one of Park’s Wallace & Gromit mini-shorts, from 2002′s “Cracking Contraption” series, which appeared on BBC One in 2002, and is on the new “Were-Rabbit” DVD. The complete series of 10 shorts, as a reader correctly points out, is available on “Wallace & Gromit in Three Amazing Adventures” DVD.

Open Salon interview.

A struggling Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Penn., went nuclear Wednesday, with an ad that tries to ally challenger Bob Casey with North Korea and China. Ah, the acrid smell of desperation in the weeks before a congressional election! Be prepared for even more of these terror-filled spots in these glorious final days of Campaign 2006, all of which carry a little DNA from the mother of all scare ads: The 1964 Lyndon Johnson “Daisy Girl” ad against Barry Goldwater (bottom ad, below).

From Michael Scherer’s piece today: “The GOP seems to believe that Ford’s appeal to its most reliable voters is working. In recent days, the Republican National Committee has attempted to reverse the troubling polls in Tennessee with a television ad that both attacks Ford’s religious credentials and invokes that old standby of American politics, racial fear.”

This National Republican Senatorial Committee ad against Harold Ford sports an early mention of a Playboy connection that the party hopes will rile Christians against Ford.

Salon’s piece on Rep. Harold Ford Jr.’s senate campaign spotlights his appeal to churchgoers, as in the TV spot below.