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Melinda Penkava talks to Weekend Edition entertainment critic Elvis Mitchell about the new documentary, The Kings of Comedy. 6:00.

The submarine disaster has had repercussions for President Putin, who was vacationing during much of the crisis. From Moscow, journalist Yevgenia Albats tells us how the president's decision to remain on vacation angered Russian citizens.

After officially receiving theDemocratic nomination in Los Angeles, Al Gore and his running-mate, Joseph Lieberman, took a boat down the Mississippi River. The contenders are traveling aboard the Mark Twain to Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois and Missouri. NPR's Anthony Brooks talks with Jacki from the campaign trail.

NPR's Jackie Northam checks in with Illinois' 10th congressional district, a key district in the presidential race, to see how the conventions played with swing voters.

Dick Cheney may befacing a bigger decision than that of accepting the other half of Governor Bush's ticket; if Cheney accepts the stock options given to him by the Haliburton Company as part of his retirement package, the potential Vice-President could be in a position to influence how much those options are worth. NPR's Peter Overby reports on Cheney's dilemma.

Anita Bugg from memberstation WPLN in Nashville reports on an annual joint yard sale that spreads for 450 miles along a southern highway.

Commentator Madeline Hnatowich Dean recalls her recent summer vacations out West --sharing the woods with fire fighters.

Jacki Lyden talkswith Barbara Robinette Moss about her new book Change Me Into Zeus' Daughter. The memoir chronicles the extreme poverty her large family endured in rural Alabama during the 1950's, which led to serious physical deformities for Moss. (Published by Scribner 2000; ISDN: 074320218X) (

Melinda reads letters from listeners.

Democrats will try the same budgetary process from four decades ago when first-year President Ronald Reagan used reconciliation to achieve his "revolution" in federal fiscal policy.