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Sun May 11, 2008
(Shakesville) Wheaton This week's enemy of feminism for criticizing Hillary is... Wil Wheaton? (125)
(CNN) Interesting Serbia's pro-West president claims election win, attributes success to his 2006 American Idol victory (6)
(Green Papers) Amusing Congratulations to Alan Keyes on joining the "people with more delegates than Giuliani" club last week (16)
(The New York Times) Amusing The Reverend Caldwell, who performed the marriage ceremony for Jenna Bush this weekend, endorsed Barack Obama for President. Awkward (136)
(ABC News) Dumbass First Mate on the S.S. Clintanic warns rural voters that only he and wife stand for them, that there will be plenty of life boats for the third class passengers (170)
(Politico) Amusing Number of people admitting to being Republican is at 16-year low (234)
(YouTube) Video Subliminal much? (173)
(Jerusalem Post) Amusing "Labor MK and former cabinet minister Ophir Paz-Penis on Saturday urged..." Heh. Sorry. "Paz-Penis urged-" Dude, stop looking at me like that. That's his name. I can't do this if you keep making me crack up (61)
(The Nation) Obvious One in four Republicans reject McCain, say the KoolAid tastes funny (79)
(ABC News) Obvious "Just turn off the television," says Hillary Clinton to supporters, failing to add: "So you can't see how badly I've lost and everybody who's telling me to step down" (55)
(Boston Globe) Interesting "11 million lower-income households don't have to pay income taxes that would have had to pay taxes before the Bush tax cuts." (80)
(NYT) Cool Barack Obama plans to talk about John McCain's maverick, trailblazing, new-kind-of-Republican past as a member of the Keating Five (94)
(CNN) Scary Move along "CITIZEN" nothing to see here... Welcome to the New World (news video) (424)

Sat May 10, 2008
(Talking Points Memo) Followup Hillary's PowerPoint presentation that was sent to all the House superdelegates (245)
(Newsweek) Dumbass McCain's choice for GOP convention chair has A) lobbied for Exxon, B) lobbied for Myanmar's junta, C) led a pro-Bush 527 organization, or D) all of the above (99)
(The New Republic) Obvious Ten reasons not to pick Hillary as VP (71)
(AP) Interesting How a lawyer and state legislator with no name, family, or wealth connections went from the IL State House to drinking the milkshake of a universally known First Lady in only four years (140)
(Some Blog) Hero Col. David Hackworth remembered: "Unlike most pop-offs, the most highly decorated soldier in American military history was reliably on target. So much so that his career ended with the threat of a court martial." (51)
(Real Clear Politics) Interesting The ultimate VP pick for Obama (353)
(Reuters) Stupid Ready for coverage about McCain's Sunni-Shiite, Czechoslovakia, or League of Nations mixups? Keep waiting - it's now time for the liberal media to make fun of Obama saying "57 states" on a 24/7 loop for two weeks (198)
(The New York Times) Followup Two actors from "The West Wing" back up Arianna Huffington's claim that John McCain said he did not vote for George W. Bush in 2000 (76)
(SeattlePI) Spiffy Thousands of Seattle residents unlawfully ticketed on holidays to get $500,000 refund (11)

Fri May 09, 2008
(Mediabistro) Ironic Fox News fires reporter who admitted she voted for McCain (64)
(Independent) Asinine Italy's Berlusconi decides not to make the same mistakes twice and fills his cabinet with show girls and kiss-asses (29)
(Fox News) Amusing John Rinaldi said the initiative would turn "every toilet in San Francisco into basically a shrine for George W. Bush and all his great achievements in his eight years as our commander in chief." (57)
(Daily Kos) Obvious Straightshooter McMaverick caught pulling strings to enrich backer (39)
(CNN) Obvious Hillary holds a 43 point lead in West Virginia. Obviously it's because of clear policy differences. Riiiiggggghhhhht (256)
(MSNBC) Hero Arnold tells girly-men carmakers to stop their whining or he'll *pump* them up with hydrogen (42)
(Rasmussen Reports) Obvious Rasmussen to cease Democratic Primary tracking poll and focus on Obama vs. McCain general election tracking poll (51)
(Some Guy) Weird Republicans decide to take a bold stand by voting against Mother's Day (34)
(Yahoo) Followup Myanmar has agreed to allow a single U.S. cargo aircraft to bring in relief supplies for cyclone victims (200)
(Yahoo) Obvious Ted Kennedy says that Obama is unlikely to pick Clinton for his running mate, and that he should pick someone who "is in tune with his appeal for the nobler aspirations of the American people.'' Oh snap (104)
(Philly) Asinine Al Gore will not accept a cabinet post, no matter who wins. Which is convenient, because no one has offered him one. In related news, Submitter will not accept $5 million, no matter who offers it (49)
(MSNBC) Followup Now free to show much they've always disliked her, Hillary Clinton's "working, hard-working, white Americans" line has started a firestorm of righteous indignation among high-ranking Democrats (186)
(National Review) Interesting Mitt Romney finally admits that maybe athiests are citizens also (113)
(ABC News) Cool Obama takes the superdelegate lead. Hillary adds another name to her "Judas List" (240)
(Some Guy) Interesting Who will Edwards endorse? Hint: "I just voted for him on Tuesday." Ron Paul? (195)
(Some Guy) Asinine Get ready for the next stage of the right-wing attack on Obama: Swiftboating Michelle (582)
(Wall Street Journal) Interesting This year marks the very messy and very public divorce of the Democratic party from Bill and Hillary Clinton. Only question now is who gets custody of Mark Penn (43)
(Bloomberg) Cool Bush vows to veto $296 billion farm bill that does squat to address the corn ethanol subsidy, which is hands-down the single dumbest and most destructive program ever (152)
(AP) Asinine The White House says weed will make you crazy, but not their policies on drugs and war, they're good for you (112)
(Break) Amusing "The biatch is crazy... the biatch be politricking..." Barack Obama on Def Comedy Jam (50)
(Right Wing News) Interesting The 25 most influential people on the right, according to conservative bloggers (237)
(BBC) Silly Tanks rejoin Russia's annual "We can still kick your ass" parade. You're welcome (61)
(Some Guy) Unlikely Rise of the Weak: When faced with cave-dwelling terrorists, we’ve become shrieking cowards who are willing to trade our Constitution, our freedoms and our souls in exchange for a Nanny State Fatherland (164)
(Information Dissemination) Interesting Uncle Sam has been quietly lining up untold metric tons of Whoop Ass to unleash on Iran this summer (with pic that should set mullah's pants to Brown Alert) (312)

Thu May 08, 2008
(Slate) Obvious The only way that Obama could possibly lose the nomination is if video of him punching a baby surfaced (131)
(Crooks & Liars) Stupid Crooks and Liars gets their panties in a bunch because Fox News' Fred Barnes told the truth and said "working class is just a euphemism for lower class" (180)
(Reuters) News The war is over (354)
(CNN) Followup Open war with Georgia more likely due to new Russian troop movements, consultation with Sherman (77)
(MSNBC) Stupid Non-elitist nine-figures-having beer heiress Cindy McCain says she'll never reveal her tax returns, even if she becomes First Lady (154)
(Times Caucus) Obvious Both Democratic camps agree - Florida & Michigan really don't matter after all (28)
(AP) Dumbass Yesterday: Hillary will exit gracefully. Today: Hillary is in full race bait mode saying she has the support of all "hard-working Americans, white Americans." (277)
(CBS News) Dumbass Alec Baldwin thinking about running for office, says he's always really admired Fred Thompson, Sonny Bono and that Gopher guy from "Love Boat." Still no cure for Alec Baldwin (73)
(Politico) Followup Obama to declare victory in 12 days (264)
(Some Guy) Stupid Harvey Weinstein threatened to cut off campaign money to congressional Democrats unless they seat Florida & Michigan (70)
(National Journal) Interesting Why blogging matters: a single blogger using nothing but math and statistical models predicted the Democratic primary more accurate than any professional pollster (44)
(Time) Interesting Toni Morrison: "People misunderstand why I called Bill Clinton the first black president. I meant it in a bad way." (75)
(New York Daily News) Stupid GOP about to lose another married Congressman over a sex scandal. On the plus side, it was heterosexual (94)
(MSNBC) Spiffy Bush threatens to veto $300 billion homeowner bailout plan (262)
(ABC News) Interesting Clinton in discussions to be V.P., according to George Stephanopoulos (341)
(Free Press) Interesting Michigan Dems settle on last minute plan to prevent nuclear destruction later this month. Bonus: Plan might actually work (194)
(Houston Chronicle) Obvious Texans brace themselves for the possibility of change this November. Concealed handgun applications jump 40% in anticipation of an Obama Presidency (328)
(Seattle Times) Sad Tragedy strikes the US evangelical movement as the younger generation cares more about poverty and helping people than in destroying the country (127)
(Boston Globe) Misc Having spent all the state's tax revenue, Massachusetts politicians want to confiscate Harvard's endowment fund to balance the budget (61)
(Boston Herald) Amusing McCain cites ability to work with Ted Kennedy as proof that his temper can't be all that bad (12)
(Time) Interesting The five mistakes that doomed the presidential campaign of Hillary Rodham Clinton (466)
(Toledo Blade) Silly Not news: state Attorney General has affair. News: Other politicians want to impeach him. Fark: they must ask said Attorney General for advice on how to impeach his adulterous ass (19)
(Dub Dub Dee En) Wheaton Hillary Clinton: The psycho ex-girlfriend of the Democratic Party. Wheatowned (not safe for work language) (531)
(CBS Sacramento) Unlikely DNC superdelegate putting his vote for sale for $20 million (63)
(CBS News) Amusing Jon Stewart to John McCain - "Who would you rather face in the general election, Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton?" John McCain - "Ron Paul" (81)
(LA Times) Obvious "Clinton could decide to court voters by dressing as a giant chicken and promising an XBox 360 to every American. She has a right to do that. But it would still be really stupid" (18)
(Kansas City) Obvious Obama needs more white women (54)
(CBS Minneapolis) Amusing Former Senator now driving driving special needs bus, can't tell the difference (15)

Wed May 07, 2008
(Talking Points Memo) Unlikely Hillary's lead strategist: "We think the results last night strengthen the case that she will be the strongest candidate for the Democratic Party in November." (217)
(CNN) Dumbass Rush Limbaugh is now supporting Obama to be the Democratic nominee...wait, what? (637)
(Some Guy) Caption Caption what Bush is trying to say to Putin (157)
(wordpress) Interesting Seven reasons why we are totally screwed (69)
(The Atlantic) Interesting Seven reasons why Hillary shouldn't quit (123)
(The Atlantic) Interesting Seven reasons why Hillary should quit (32)
(Some Guy) Obvious Superdelegate Heath Shuler endorses Hillary Clinton. Which isn't surprising, because he always showed such great decision making skills in the NFL (49)
(Some Crazy woman) Amusing A lot of people want to start a third party in US politics, but most of them aren't married to the leader of the Democratic Party (145)
(Politico) Scary "The goal of Paulville.org it to establish gated communities containing 100% Ron Paul supporters and or people that live by the ideals of freedom and liberty." (117)
(Some Newt) Interesting Newt Gingrich hops on board the changewagon, predicts big problems for Republicans in November (90)
(AP) Stupid It.. will... not... DIE (247)
(Reuters) Misc Pelosi would like more stimulus, struggles with uncooperative Bush (57)
(Rocky Mountain News) Stupid "Fertilized egg is a person" ballot proposal may mean that doctors can't treat women with cancer, birth control will be banned, and sex with pregnant women may lead to sex with minors charges (323)
(The Raw Story) Obvious Obama camp credits Clinton's narrow win in Indiana to Operation Chaos (128)
(TMZ) Amusing Obama downs a PBR in North Carolina, leaves 900% tip (138)
(Live Science) Cool Conservatives happier than liberals. Perhaps because they eat meat, drink scotch, and watch the blonde bombshell reporterettes on Fox News (349)
(Stars and Stripes) Stupid Congressman proposes a ban on the sale of explicit magazines on military bases, because the sight of womens breasts promotes violent tendencies amongst soldiers (70)
(Guardian.com) Hero Hillary Clinton's campaign rakes in over $6 million following her resounding victory in Indiana (262)
(Seattle Times) Obvious McCain makes it clear: He'll only appoint judges that strictly interpret the Constitution in a manner he agrees with (80)
(America Blor) Interesting Wesley Clark called Hillary Clinton last night, urged her to drop out, asked her what she was wearing (132)
(AP) Obvious George McGovern abandons the Clintanic (134)
(CNN) Interesting Putin hand-picks his successor as President, who hand-picks Putin as Prime Minister. My belt holds my pants up, but the belt loops hold my belt up. So which one is the real hero? (30)
(ABC News) Amusing Alan Keyes got 3% of the vote in North Carolina (44)
(Dilbert Blog) PSA Dilbert would like you to know that you can trust him to decide which candidate is best for economical reasons (18)
(Politico) Obvious Republicans in Congress get ready to enter the bomb shelter for the next four years to ride out the coming progressive onslaught and await a new Ronald Reagan (84)
(Wall Street Journal) Obvious While Obama is rolling, he's still unknown and untested and has many weaknesses as a candidate, just like Michael Dukakis (214)
(Washington Post) Ironic The White House Special Counsel who is in charge protecting government whistleblowers from retaliation was just raided by the FBI over claims that he illegally retaliated against whistleblowers on his staff (49)
(News and Observer) Ironic NC House candidate endorses, campaigns for, concedes to, and votes for opponent, but still wins. EPIC FAIL (28)
(ABC 2) Strange Woman crashes Maryland Governor's press conference. Literally (6)
(The Register) Sick George Bush admits that he's broken another Federal law, but since no one's going to arrest him, that's okay then (184)
(The New Republic) Obvious After NC's crushing blow, Hillary is free to play out the rest of her days as an older, shriller Democratic Mike Huckabee (122)
(Some Guy) Unlikely Did Rush Limbaugh's "Operation Chaos" win Indiana for Hillary? (146)
(LA Times) Stupid Nuns in their 80s and 90s turned away from polls for not having IDs, by a fellow nun (88)
(Talking Points Memo) News Hillary Clinton cancels all morning talk shows and other public appearances on Wednesday (802)

Tue May 06, 2008
(CBS News) News Clinton wins Indiana, Obama wins North Carolina and the wheels keep going round and round and round (1376)
(MSNBC) Interesting Your Official Indiana/North Carolina Primary Thread (LGT MSNBC's live video feed) (1930)
(ABC News) Scary Just so you all know, the Clintons have today decided that because in their view MI and FL should be counted 100%, the new magic number is 2,209... so they will not quit if/when Obama reaches 2,025. Good day (713)
(The Atlantic) Cool The Obama campaign has reached its goal of 1,500,000 individual donors. The question remains, how many of those were Muslim sleepers who want him to destroy America? (185)
(Boston Globe) Interesting Al Gore on potential of his emerging as a compromise candidate for the Democrats - "That's as remote as you can imagine." Added "*cough*Gore/Obama2008" (87)
(Washington Post) Obvious Congress wants to cut funds to feed hungry children by 90 percent while giving millions to wealthy farmers. Why? Hungry children don't have high-priced lobbyists with their noses up Congress's butt (151)
(Washington Post) Obvious More than 230 economists from all political backgrounds sign a letter opposing McCain & Clinton's gas-tax holiday plans, further proof that economists are elitists that hate the poor, sip lattes, and kill kittens with glee (282)
(Politico) Cool Meanwhile, in his spare time, Obama has negotiated a ceasefire in the Niger delta. No, really (435)
(Kansas.com) Obvious Westboro Baptist Church: "If I don't have no $5 million, you can't take no $5 million." Court: "I drink your milkshake, I drink it up" (164)
(Yahoo) Interesting After losing two out of three recent special elections, the GOP is suddenly not sure their "block all legislation and then whine about a 'do nothing Congress'" is the the cunning plan they thought it was (79)
(Chicago Tribune) Interesting Obama picks up three superdelegates in Illinois, charmed him with that "my caucus or yours?" line (57)
(AP) Amusing Since Obama shouldn't have to answer controversial questions, Roberts declares "Wright-free zone" for Obama interview. Goes on to ask whether he can get Obama anything at all (432)
(ABC News) Obvious Primary day conventional wisdom: Obama will take NC, Clinton will win Indiana, and the voters will endure the torture of six more primaries in four weeks (241)
(Townhall) Obvious McCain's health care plan differs from that of Obama and Hillary's because it makes sense (317)
(Seattle Times) Obvious John McCain takes swipe at Obama, incontinence (167)
(LA Times) Amusing Rush Limbaugh says Clinton-Obama race is proceeding precisely according to his plan... and by plan he actually means no plan at all (113)
(Wonkette) Caption Caption this picture of Hillary taking a MySpace picture of herself and a few dozen of her friends (123)
(Daily Kos) Sad Report suggests that suicides by Iraq veterans may outnumber combat deaths (165)
(Slate) Amusing Hitchens on the Obama 2-for-1 deal, and Michelle's thesis: To describe it as hard to read would be a mistake, for the thesis cannot be "read" at all... this is because it wasn't written in any known language (100)
(MSNBC) Amusing Hillary Clinton's guidelines for winning, presented by Keith Olbermann. (LGT video) (64)
(YouTube) Dumbass You know who else thought Americans deserved 9/11? (125)

Mon May 05, 2008
(Time) Hero Obama's bomb-sniffing dog leaves his own personal editorial on Time reporter's laptop (26)
(Wonkette) Amusing "Hey, John Kerry, my eyes are up here" (89)
(Michelle Malkin) Amusing John McCain gives the finger to conservatives, will speak at the National Council of La Raza (151)
(AP) Obvious Bush says increasing supply is the solution to high gas prices, mentions nothing of decreasing demand. Omission Accomplished (200)
(Some Guy) Dumbass Barack Obama spent the weekend condemning SUVs while of course driving in SUVs and other gas-guzzling luxury cars (237)
(Financial Times) Interesting India is considering a ban on trading in food futures. Your dog doesn't want to be steak (42)
(LA Times) Interesting Clinton could lose her committed superdelegates in California if she doesn't make major gains before June 3. Expect May to bring out the true, brimstone-scented Hillary we've all been waiting for (93)
(CNBC) Scary Rising food prices could force hundreds of millions of Asians back into poverty, sparking political instability and social unrest (122)
(Wall Street Journal) Followup Turns out the dastardly liberals weren't the only ones pondering the national implications of Don Cazayoux winning a seat held by the GOP for 30 years (50)
(Politico) Dumbass News: Clinton bashes Obama on gun rights although she's always supported gun control. Fark: To prove it, she sends out a mailer depicting a fancy customized European rifle that couldn't possibly exist in real life (243)
(Huffington Post) Obvious Update: Hillary Clinton will definitely try to ram through a decision to seat the disputed 210-member Florida and 156-member Michigan delegations on May 31st (272)
(Crooks & Liars) Amusing McCain carries with him a lucky penny, lucky nickel, lucky quarter, lucky four-leaf clover, lucky feather and lucky compass. Together, they form Voltron (62)
(Politico) Obvious Hillary Clinton channels her inner Huey Long, becomes a populist fighting for the little guy. She starts by bashing her donors (47)
(Wall Street Journal) Obvious Obama is clueless on the economy (281)
(The New York Times) Amusing James Carville helpfully said that if Hillary gave Obama one of her vehicles of testicular fortitude, “they’d both have two” (90)
(CNN) Caption Caption what John McCain is bellowing (237)
(The New York Times) Sad Turkmenistan's new ruler is working to undo the crazy hilarity of his predecessor, like renaming the days of the week after his family and the golden statue of himself that rotated to always face the sun (76)
(The Sun) Dumbass Boris Johnson's first act as mayor is to ban alcohol on the London Underground, which will solve all its problems, make the trains run on time (34)
(Breitbart.tv) Scary Hillary on Rush: “He’s always had a crush on me.” Rush Limbaugh last seen stocking up on shotgun rounds, garlic cloves and dramamine (89)
(The Weekly Standard) Sick Even the right wing newspapers get it. "[Hillary] is acting like one of our own" (69)
(CBS News) Cool After Wright ordeal, Obama now up by 11 points over John McCain. Desperate for controversy, media scrambling to find Obama's second cousin's former roommate's boss's girlfriend (133)
(YouTube) Amusing The Empire Strikes Barack. It's as if a million Republicans cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced (67)
(Huffington Post) Dumbass John McCain thinks that America should build 700 new nuclear power plants. Bonus: It's because France is doing it (199)
(Fox News) Asinine Sen. Jack Scott (D-umbass) rises above other politicians (20)
(Foreign Affairs) Interesting Fareed Zakaria, pretty much the smartest guy on the face of the planet, describes how the United States will remain the sole global hegemon because everyone else is a bunch of stinky doo doo heads (60)
(Daily Mail) Interesting A Brit's honest take on the Democratic primaries (44)

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