If you can read this, either the style sheet didn't load or you have an older browser that doesn't support style sheets. Try clearing your browser cache and refreshing the page.
GoogleWeb Fark
These links may be stale and generate errors. Can't do much about it. Tastes like chicken.

(Headline T-Shirts are still available for archive links.)
Sun December 16, 2007
(JI) Interesting Atheists put up sign celebrating Winter Solstice in city square. Town puts a 12-foot Christmas tree in front of it (123)
Boston Globe Unlikely Hillary's guy was lying when he said the GOP would use Obama's drug use against him (22)
(Radar) Interesting Radar's presidential debate quiz. Foot in mouth goodness (14)
(Fatty) Interesting Ron Paul past $2 million so far today. Throw your tea overboard (334)
Newsday Unlikely Asshat superintendent with a $187,000 a year salary complains that he is being underpaid (21)
The Raw Story Obvious 2000: Florida's punch-card voting machines. 2008: Ohio's touch-screen voting machines. Guess what they have in common (26)
Canada.com Cool Canada set to ban *cough* smoking in vehicles *cough* carrying children (97)
Newsweek Obvious Newsweek writers spend 5 pages pontificating on how John Edwards can still win Iowa, somehow avoid "he's the only viable white guy in the race" the entire time (6)
Globe and Mail Stupid Canadian political party that previously announced a policy of denying men to the chance to run for any open seats in order to increase the representation by women now tell their transgendered candidate her gender will cost them too many votes (11)
(Wisconsin State Journal) Interesting "This political year, the presidential candidates are getting an early opportunity to rise and shine. Or to crash and burn." (31)
(Ynet) Obvious Emergency Israeli delegation dispatched to US to argue that Iran still pursuing bomb, has super-duper top secret information that no one can see as proof, and dodgy documents where "q's" are replaced with "n's" (74)
ABC News Asinine A month after saying that he disapproved of "push polling" and said he wanted it to stop, Huckabee's campaign once again linked to sleazy phone calls attacking John McCain (36)
IndyStar Spiffy Record melting of Arctic Ice this year. Where is your global warming now? (405)
DFW Ironic Bush administration official gives commencement speech, tells graduates, "Ethics are the foundation of everything you are going to do in life" (42)
CNN Interesting Bolivia falling apart; lowland provinces secede. And so it begins (56)
Seattle Times Interesting Old and busted: Hillary Clinton. New hotness: Barack Obama. Of course, this is until everyone gets nervous and picks the white guy to be safe (61)
(Think Progress) Spiffy As evidence mounts that abstinence-only education is ineffective, 14 states do a very unusual thing. They turn down free money from the government (38)
YouTube Video 9iu11iani's opinion of illegal immigrants in 2001 (49)
AP Stupid White House tells judge to hold off on CIA investigation. Says it needs more time to destroy evidence and coach officials on how not to recall anything (54)
CNN Stupid Bill Clinton says Barack Obama is a "risk" as president, as he lacks the crucial experience at throwing dinner parties in the White House that's obviously so necessary for the job (75)
AP Interesting Representatives Mary Bono and Connie Mack married in a private ceremony Saturday. Couple plans to go skiing for honeymoon (29)
CNN Obvious John McCain wins the endorsements of over 100 retired military officials, immediately asks them for bus fare to next campaign stop (14)
ABC News Obvious Elizabeth Edwards: "Republicans should scare us in a lot of ways" (52)
Sky.com Hero Brtitish troops to Iraqis: "Fark you, this country is your problem. We're outta here" (45)

Sat December 15, 2007
Fox News Obvious Israel says U.S. intelligence report on Iran not producing nukes could lead to armed conflict in the Middle East. Damned if you do, damned if you don't (190)
(kos) Obvious NYT reveals that Bush wiretaps included neighborhood-to-neighborhood communications. In related news, bin Laden thought to be living in a US neighborhood (97)
London Times Obvious Brits come to a realization 350 years too late: "America’s constitution produces a pure democracy we will never have" (62)
(Some Guy) Obvious Mike Huckabee: "Government knows it does not have the answer, but it's arrogant and acts as though it does. I hope we answer the alarm clock and take this nation back for Christ" (202)
(The Carpetbagger Report) Ironic "It may be an exaggeration to say conservatives are having a major-league freak-out over the prospects of Mike Huckabee winning the Republican Party’s presidential nomination, but only slightly" (174)
CNN Dumbass What do you do if a soldier becomes addicted to gambling and commits suicide? If you're a Congressman, you try to ban all soldiers from playing slot machines while overseas (98)
(chronicle.com) Obvious Internet makes it possible to only see news you agree with. P.S. Jack Daniels is a bourbon (104)
The Sun Obvious Funniest picture you'll see today of South Korean MPs beating the hell out of each other in Parliament. The guy in the middle is kinda SOL (43)
Telegraph Interesting Hillary Clinton's clumsy attack campaign on him turning out to be "Obama bin Laden's" best chance to win the White House (279)
Washington Post Interesting Clinton Library got funds from abroad, but not the same broad who polished his knob (28)
MSNBC Dumbass Attorney General refuses to give details on the destruction of CIA tapes and asks Congress to trust that internal investigations will be impartial (126)
YouTube Amusing Kant political attack ad. Paid for by the committee to elect Friedrich Nietzsche (46)
(Some Guy) Unlikely What if the US packed up and left Iraq and Afghanistan and brought the troops all home, shut down the 750-odd bases around the globe, and slashed our military budget by 75%? (211)

Fri December 14, 2007
(Olympian) Followup Hillary says her staff's slandering Obama is not a biatcharacteristic of her campaign as a hole (55)
Reuters Asinine Senate votes 93-1 forcing generous U.S. taxpayers to buy 200,000 home loans people won't pay back (55)
Metacafe Amusing Two political candidates, from different parties, coming together in an underwear clad female way. This is one Unity '08 we'd all like to see. Maybe the candidates too (20)
(Some Guy) Interesting "Everything* you ever wanted to know about U.S. foreign policy that history books tend to neglect" (83)
Guardian.com Spiffy From the international political erotica files: Musharraf loosens his tight grip as his polls slide (2)
The Daily Press Interesting Prior to the 20th century, there was a War on Christmas conducted by Presbyterians, Baptists, Quakers, Methodists, & Congregationalists who opposed Christmas as unchristian (285)
(Some Guy) Scary Plan B: Clinton-Bloomberg in '08 3rd Party option (34)
(Some Guy) Obvious The Bush administration has spent 600% more on paper shredding than the previous administration, as they try to protect secret information from congr.....Al Qaeda (35)
Yahoo Strange Good news Democrats, Huckabee leads Republicans in South Carolina poll (82)
AFP Interesting Bush meets with Nigerian leader. Asks why he hasn't seen any of his lottery winnings after sending billions of dollars over the last 6 years (8)
MSNBC Amusing What did the five fingers say to the face? SLAP! I'm the First Lady, biatch (16)
Reuters Unlikely Lebanon must pick a new President by Monday, or face the legendary wrath of the French (24)
AP Interesting Q: What is your favorite keepsake? Fred Thompson: "My trophy wife." Hair products oddly missing from John Edwards's response (39)
(Some Paradise) Interesting Norway: The greatest threat to traditional conservative values on the planet (89)
Tulsa World Stupid Rudy 9iu11iani cancels a public appearance in Oklahoma City due to the ice storm damage. Still manages to attend his private fundraiser though (33)
(Press Herald) Obvious "Some places even go so far as to publicly display their vulnerability to mass murder through the posting of signs that say 'No Guns Permitted' or 'Gun-Free Zone'" (223)
(Cincinnati Enquirer) Obvious Ohio voting machines hackable by anyone with a magnet (49)
Deceiver Obvious Venezuelan Interior Minister: Capitalism is bad. Reporter: Uh, dude, you're wearing Gucci shoes and a Louis Vuitton tie (63)
(Some Delusional Guy) Unlikely Ron Paul supporter convinced Time Magazine article which doesn't mention Ron Paul and has a debate picture that crops out Ron Paul clearly implies that Ron Paul is now the GOP frontrunner (136)
(Think Progress) Dumbass Facing an onslaught from the libro-multiculti seculoids, Bill O'Reilly calls upon the secret ninth day of Hannukah to aid him in the War on Christmas (128)
NJ.com Dumbass City employee billed hotel porn to the city while on trip to Miami... that city employee? The mayor (16)
Chicago Tribune Stupid Hillary finds the perfect way to connect with the salt-of-the-earth, just plain regular folks in Iowa: Visit every county in a personal helicopter. That'll work (208)
NPR Ironic U.S. prosecutors say participants in Argentinian election broke campaign laws. And if anyone would know anything about that, it's the current U.S. administration (14)
Yahoo Asinine Pervez Musharraf finds a campaign method that even Karl Rove might find objectionable: Sending out ballots pre-marked with votes for his party (22)
St. Pete Times Florida Well-tanned, longtime bachelor Gov. Charlie Crist refuses to campaign for state ban on gay marriage. "I'm just a live and let live kind of guy" (98)
Yahoo Asinine House passes bill to ban CIA waterboarding torture. Since our administration and secret agencies always obey the law, consider this issue settled (644)
(Some Guy) Interesting Why the Democrats could lose in 2008. And yes, it's more than just Hillary (106)
AP Sad You know you're a desperate lesser-known presidential candidate when you wish Britney Spears would stump for you (18)
Guardian.com Unlikely Ron Paul pays to bring critics of Mike Huckabee to Iowa because the signals beamed into his head from the planet Wackjob told him this would be an effective campaign strategy (163)
Wonkette Amusing National Weather Service has issued a stage three smug alert for Tennessee (29)

Thu December 13, 2007
CSMonitor Obvious Nevada voters preparing for 2008 caucuses have to ask themselves a critical political question: "Do I prefer Snickers or Milky Way? And what's up with those freaks who prefer Red Vines?" (53)
Washington Post Asinine Thankfully when only 59% of the Senate votes to pass a bill it goes down in defeat or else we might have ended some of those ridiculous oil company subsidies... wait, what? (94)
BBC Cool New Jersey to repeal death penalty; no longer can blame the smell on electrocuted inmates (28)
CNN Amusing Seeing how well Obama admitting to past drug use helped him, George W. Bush decides to talk about being a drunk in the 1970s again. One-ups Obama in inventing new classic phrase - "knee-walking drunk" (54)
Yahoo Asinine Democrat's call for increased taxes on the wealthy, storming the Bastille, and seizing the means of production (224)
ABC News Asinine Pelosi: "[Republicans] like this war... When I say 'like,' I shouldn't say they 'like' the war. They support the war." ABC News headline: "Pelosi: Republicans 'Like' the War in Iraq" (65)
MSNBC Misc Hillary apologizes to Obama for trying to use his former drug use against him. Bill exhales (60)
St. Pete Times Florida State Attorney General threatens action against University of Florida adminstrators who sided with offended Muslims over film. You can't ban speech that offends you (62)
(M.E.N) Obvious Muslims use Christian prayer room and cover up crucifix with a cloth. Can you guess what happens next? (124)
USA Today Sad Army breaks its suicide record. Commander-in-chief unavailable for comment (51)
(The Ledger) Florida Pastafarians write letters to creationists on Florida school board who support intelligent design, want equal time for the FSM. Ramen (246)
CBS News Amusing If you're openly gay, you can't serve in the U.S. military. Unless we're at war - then it's just fine (281)
(Ablogistan) PSA Having solved all other problems, Congress passes a nonbinding resolution acknowleding that Christianity is a major religion and Christmas has historical importance (107)
(Political Wire) Asinine If you're worried about Hillary Clinton's sinking poll numbers, what do you do? Blame the pollster (47)
CNN Asinine For those keeping score at home: Congressmen diddling (or trying to diddle) congressional pages? No problem. Congressional pages diddling each other? Big problem (45)
News.com.au Interesting Pope cancels meeting with Dalai Lama, says they already met in former life (25)
Yahoo Interesting Senate Judiciary Committee votes to find Karl Rove and Josh Bolten in contempt for refusing to cooperate in its probe of fired federal prosecutors (569)
AP Obvious Democrats cave in on defense bill. Darth Cheney heard muttering, "The Force can have a strong influence on the weak-minded" (102)

Wed December 12, 2007
(The Huffington Post) Followup How much crazy is too much crazy? ABC answers that question (137)
(JPost) Scary Iran test-fired new 2000 kilometer missle capable of hitting Israel, US Army bases in the Middle East and eastern European cities, including Moscow. In other news, Moscow is a European city (222)
CBS News Followup Hillary aide warns that Republicans might attack Obama because of his questionable drug past...he might even be a jazz musician (93)
AP Obvious GOP presidential candidates call for federal spending cuts, conveniently forget to specify which programs (47)
(RADAR) Interesting The Democrats do something right for once and try to start some in-fighting between the Republican nominees by way of the Drudge Report (19)
Guardian.com Hero Alberto Gonzales named Lawyer Of The Year by the American Bar Association (77)
AP Obvious President Bush vetoes the children's health insurance bill (again) in private (641)
(Some Guy) Obvious To their chagrin, Democrats are discovering that Nancy Pelosi is a "conventional" leader. Translation: She's just as much of a lying, two-faced weasel as anyone else in Congress (41)
AP Sad "Say, did anybody notice that my Mormon opponent worships Satan? What's up with that?" Huckabee finally goes there (114)
(The Harris Group) Interesting Who are the most and least trusted inside the beltway organizations? (17)
ABC News Interesting Hurricane Center chief: "Sorry, Dems, but no one coerced me to downplay any link between global warming and hurricanes." Oh sure--that's just what Bush TOLD him to say (27)
(Sierra Club) Amusing Mike Huckabee, the human facepalm: "We ought to declare that we will be free of energy consumption in this country within a decade." (Last item) (166)
(Some Guy) Interesting A brief history of celebrity Presidential endorsements from Warren G Harding to Hillary Clinton (10)
Yahoo Stupid The Associated Press addresses one of the biggest issues in the upcoming presidential election, the critical swing issue that affects all Americans: How do the candidates like their coffee? (82)
(Some Nobel Peace Prize Guy) Cool Kylie Minogue dances around in a black leather dress while some Nobel Peace Prize guy talks about the world ending, or something. Pic AND Video of Kylie (134)
Baltimore Sun Interesting New poll shows Clinton's support among women has dropped 10 points in a week, no doubt due to the wise analysis of pundits explaining why Oprah will have no impact on the race (87)
Salon Obvious New poll finds that so few Jews support the war in Iraq, you could fit them all on a Fox News panel every Sunday morning (123)
CNN Interesting What do a carjacker, a moonshiner, a drug dealer, a violator of election laws, and Scooter Libby have in common? Nothing, since Bush didn't pardon Scooter (61)
Telegraph Interesting John Edwards to channel power of dead relatives and win Democrat nomination (22)
(American Thinker) Interesting The conservative/libertarian case for universal healthcare (200)
(Lawrence Journal-World) Dumbass A politician is involved in a sex scandal. Oh, wait a minute, this is a Democrat, move along nothing to see here (118)
(The Age) Amusing Actual headline: Senator's strip tip - wear clean undies (38)
This Is Local London Asinine British PM Gordon Brown announces he will negotiate with Taliban to end war in Afghanistan (334)
Fond du Lac Reporter Scary "Liberal teachers are still in our schools" (2nd letter) (267)

Tue December 11, 2007
(ConWebWatch blog) Followup "WND has a problem reporting on homeschoolers gone bad, even though it is eager to report bad news about public (government) schools." (65)
(Some Guy) Stupid How Mike Huckabee thinks kangaroos were created. Other theories include being sung into existence during "dreamtime" and other such lunacy (99)
Yahoo Stupid In another hard-hitting piece of crack journalism, the AP reveals the '08 candidates' childhood nicknames. Richardson: "Coyote Bill." Thompson: "Mr. President." Hillary: "Mr. President" (29)
Yahoo Interesting Popular Cuban TV personality defects to the U.S. Will miss the free health care and testicle electrocutions the most (59)
(Some Guy) Asinine Israel PM warns Iran can develop nuclear bomb by last Tuesd.. a few month...err..2010, yeah, definitely 2010 (33)
Wonkette Amusing Because it's Tuesday, here's a guy dressed as a robot, heckling Bill Clinton over comments made 15 years ago about rapper Sister Souljah (121)
(Family Research Council) Dumbass Colorado church shootings explained: Blame "hostility that is being fomented in our culture from some in the secular media toward Christians" (88)
(Nanny State UK) Asinine Today's Nanny State News comes from the UK, where they want to regulate the thickness of your sandwich bread (97)
CSMonitor Interesting How the oil industry owned the Alaska Legislature (30)
SMH Obvious The empty myths peddled by evangelists of unbelief and how evangelical atheism is the mirror image of the faith it attacks - without faith's redeeming doubts (353)
AP Dumbass President Bush demands that Iran explain their nuclear program. Iran responds that they already told the U.S. it was for energy purposes so they can export more oil. Ask if Bush needs a pie chart (105)
Reason Magazine Unlikely Global warming conferees in Bali suggest Americans each pay a $780 annual carbon tax to poor countries as reimbursement for industrializing first and most (119)
(NY Daily News) Obvious New York Governor Eliot Spitzer -- once a champion of the people as he pursued corporate white-collar crime, securities fraud, Internet fraud and environmental protection -- is now polling in Bush territory (30)
(Some Guy) Unlikely Dem's want to put Huckabee's glass jaw against Hillary's iron va-jay-jay (59)
Boston Globe Stupid Of all the things you could attack Mike Huckabee with, Mitt Romney chooses "not hating the browns enough" as the first attack ad of the Republican primary season (76)
(News Busters) Dumbass Continuing to show his commitment to The Cause, Al Gore takes the train to Oslo. His luggage, however, is not so concerned with the climate crisis (230)
(Some Obama) Hero Obama pledges to repeal "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," calling it "a policy that is antithetical to the values of honor and integrity that our military holds most dear" (205)
YouTube Video Mike Huckabee in 2001: Congratulations, Canada, on preserving your national igloo (8:40) (39)
NYPost Amusing Jokes about Bill Clinton pounding more chocolate booty than Barack Obama may go over well on late night TV, but at a political fundraiser it just leads to uncomfortable silence and next-day apologies (114)
Wall Street Journal Interesting Is America ready for two presidents in the White House? And that doesn't mean Ron Paul and the magical gnome under his bed who gives him instructions? (60)
Yahoo Obvious Russia's Medvedev backs Putin to become PM. Putin does his best to look surprised (104)
(Some Guy) Obvious Poll finds GOP field isn’t touching voters, probably because they're not conducting the poll in men's restrooms (239)
CNN Obvious According to polls, Huckabee would lose by double digits to Clinton if they were the nominees. And he'd lose to Obama and Edwards by even bigger margins. He might give Mike Gravel a little bit of trouble, though (84)
Yahoo Interesting Pakistan successfully test-fires cruise missile. Could have been a scary outcome, but witnesses claim Superman redirected it into the sun (76)
Wall Street Journal Followup Nancy Pelosi and other congressional leaders received over two dozen briefings describing all details of waterboarding before it became public, and fully approved of it (138)
(Some Guy) Hero Al Gore, Nobel Laureate: "We have the ability to solve this crisis and avoid the worst — not all — of its consequences, if we act boldly, decisively and quickly" (235)
News.com.au Interesting Nobel prize winner and one of the most globally respected South African voices has compared recent American and British policies of detention without trial a return to the apartheid era. Not that voice, the other one (20)
(Right Wing News) Interesting The 10 worst quotes from the Huffington Post for 2007 (51)
(Some Guy) Spiffy Dmitry Medvedev, Putin's handpicked successor for President of Russia, owns every Deep Purple album on vinyl (23)
Daily Mail Interesting Migrants have taken 80% percent of new jobs that UK workers don't want (12)
(ZDrake) Dumbass Mike Huckabee in 1998: Wives should graciously submit to the sacrificial leadership of their husbands. That's 1998 AD, in case you were wondering (140)

Mon December 10, 2007
Breitbart.com Interesting Democratic debate in Boston cancelled. I wouldn't worry about it though, it's not a big college town (40)
CNN Interesting It's not just Iowa. Mike Huckabee is now in a virtual tie with Rudy Giuliani in national polls. It's almost as if a majestic being is looking out for him (95)
Deceiver Asinine Candidate Giuliani promotes alternative energy. Lobbyist Giuliani lobbies against them. Welcome to America (28)
(Some Guy) Spiffy Not news: U.S. Congressman skips UN climate change conference in Bali. Fark: Congressman will address climate change on "Second Life" instead (21)
(FrontPage) Interesting Cynthia McKinney running for president in 2008, stealing Ron Paul's gig as the nutty one in the race (388)
CBS Sacramento Amusing Illinois governor makes endorsement. Good news: It's not Ron Paul. Bad news: It's Hannah Montana (99)
Wall Street Journal Obvious Democrats last year: "We will restore pay-as-you-go budgeting." Last week: "Paygo? Never mind." Bonus: Hillary and Obama both skipped the Senate vote to dump paygo (63)
CNN Interesting Gore: U.S., China must lead fight against "planetary emergency." This marks the first time in ages that the words "China" and "Lead" appears without the word "Toys" following close behind (141)
CNN Sad Huckabee is riding his Iowa bounce all the way to South Carolina, further cementing the Christian Right's chokehold on the GOP (228)
(The Huffington Post) Followup Hillary campaign contributions linked to earmarks benefiting contribut -- what is up with her neck? (53)
Drudge Dumbass Al Gore: World savior or profiteering douchebag? You decide (770)
(Big Head DC) Sad By her own admission, top White House spokeswoman, until very recently, didn't know what the Cuban Missile Crisis was (126)
(Hot Air) Interesting Ron Paul booed at Univision Republican debate. Paulites respond that they were actually saying "boo-rito" (395)
Washington Post Interesting In high school, Hillary Clinton was director of the Republican organization, and slightly little less fuggly than today (73)
(Political Wire) Interesting Oprah's endorsement seemed to be a good idea -- until the pundits decided she was better than Obama (200)
(Some Guy) Obvious More than 10 million White House emails are "missing" (109)
Yahoo Followup Far left German pol drops charges against Wikipedia for overuse of Nazi symbols in Hitler Youth article--presumably after someone explains to her it might be nice to know what this stuff looks like, in case it ever shows up again (65)
Yahoo Scary In latest ultimatum to striking writers, U.S. networks say they might have no choice but to start broadcasting hours of prime-time political shows if the strike drags on much longer (57)
Wall Street Journal Interesting Free-market think tanks growing in Europe. French workers respond to news by striking, demanding 30-hour work week (22)
(wikipedia) Obvious Someone at an IP address belonging to the House of Representatives has edited a Wikipedia article to draw a connection between Iraq and Al-Qaeda (63)
Telegraph Hero "You don't build a stronger country by denying Christmas. The idea that anyone could be offended by a card that says Merry Christmas and we've got to send one saying Season's Greetings -- I think it's insulting" (140)
Yahoo Obvious Kevin Bacon to campaign for John Edwards, says he knows him through a friend (21)
Time Obvious Republican candidates: Tax cuts raise government revenues. Economists: no they don't (129)
Omaha World Herald Sad State senators in Nebraska only make $12,000 a year, three have already quit for better paying jobs (37)

Fark Politics Forum


Politics Farkives:    Complete archives