Quick Fix 6 — 10/6/05

1. APhoto Fix: The carcass of a six-foot American alligator is shown protruding from the mid-section of a 13-foot Burmese python Monday, in Everglades National Park, Fla., after the snake apparently swallowed the alligator resulting in the deaths of both animals.

2. Cartoon Fix: Bill Schorr ( Miers nomination erodes Bush base ), Rob Rogers ( Bush cronyism ), and Jeff Parker ( Republicans and big oil ).

3. Humor Fix: “David Letterman’s Top Ten Signs That Bush Is Drinking Again” here .

4. My Way Fix: This Day in History here , Today’s Birthdays here , and Word of the Day here .

5. Top of the News Fix: Conservatives confront Bush aides re: Miers here , Oregon woman kicked off flight for offensive shirt here , Gore: American democracy in grave danger here , Black students are most religious here , and Oil dips below $60 per barrel here .

6. Opinion Fix: Peggy Noonan /Wall Street Journal ( What was Bush thinking? ), Sheryl McCarthy /Newsday ( Miers’ climb deserves respect ), Catherine Seipp /Wall Street Journal ( The sex-offender lobby ), Dick Meyer /CBS News ( Paranoid Left, paranoid Right ), and Larry Elder /Townhall ( The Borking of Bill Bennett ).