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Sun July 13, 2008
(Politico) Dumbass New Yorker cover has Obama and Michelle as depicted as terrorists. Well, at least he can cross that off his list (68)
(Charlotte) Followup Obama bails on NASCAR sponsorship, cars just don't go far enough to the left (10)
(NewsBusters) Obvious "Newsweek puzzled by rapid Obama drop in poll." *cough* FISA *cough* faith based initiatives (78)
(Huffington Post) Dumbass Top McCain surrogate given chance to contrast Bush with McCain: "Um, yeah. For instance, take, you know, take, for instance, the issue of -- I'm drawing a blank, and I hate it when I do that, particularly on television." (46)
(The Atlantic) Scary If you are worried about McCain being computer illiterate, don't worry: "I am learning to get online myself, and I will have that down fairly soon, getting on myself." (94)
(International Herald Tribune) Obvious US may begin to withdraw troops from Iraq in September. It's like there's some event scheduled in the Fall that could hinge on this (135)
(AlterNet) Obvious Hillary: "Barack Obama would get up every morning and go faithfully to the gym. I would get up every morning and get my hair done." (89)
(Washington Post) Interesting How a Democratic Congr *oops*, I mean, How a mystery person got away with the murder of Chandra Levy (50)
(Think Progress) Dumbass Carly Fiorina demonstrates the skill and talent that led HP's stock to rise 10% when she got fired (31)
(CNN) Unlikely Israeli PM Olmert: "Peace deal has never been closer," which, lets face it, doesn't say a whole hell of a lot (20)
(LA Times) Interesting So Obama was all like, "Biden, you're my BFF." But then Obama picked Hagel and Reed to go with him on his Iraq trip, and Biden got totally pissed and took Obama off his Top Eight on his Myspace (41)
(Fox News) Obvious Iran welcomes idea of U.S. diplomatic office in Tehran. Admiral Ackbar said to be conferring with State Department on idea (54)
(MSNBC) Interesting McCain prefers a soft walk and a big stick (46)
(CNN) Spiffy USA: President asks Congress to pass a bill for him to sign in order to authorize the Treasury Department to mail people $600 checks. Iraq: Prime Minister roams the streets handing out cold hard cash (88)
(London Times) Video Bush official caught on tape accepting bribes for access (81)
(London Times) Amusing Britain's embattled Prime Minister compares himself to Heathcliffe from "Wuthering Heights," but polls finds public associate him with "Macbeth." (9)
(Wonkette) Strange March for Ron Paul 2008: a pictorial medley. Wow, just wow (269)
(Seattle Times) Followup Add mudslides to the list of things caused by government de-regulation (74)
(Sun Sentinel) Florida "Huge swing" in Florida voters registering as Democrats could produce a wave of support for Barack Obama and trigger a decades-long shift of party allegiance that could affect elections for a generation (73)
(CNN) Followup CNN reporter fondly recalls being the only person Tony Snow admitted snapping off to (18)
(Philly) Followup Someone finally realizes how sensitive telephone records really are. Now if only there were some sort of amendment to the Constitution banning seizures without a warrant (67)
(USA Today) Weird Michelle Obama asks what can you do with $600 from the government. Her suggestion? Buy earrings (125)
(Reuters) Scary Bush considers stepping up troop withdrawal from Iraq. Soldiers breathe a sigh of rel...wait.. we're going to Iran, aren't we? shiat (67)
(London Times) Obvious Bush backs Israeli pre-emptive attack on Iran (228)
(MSNBC) Asinine Pakistan declares NIMBY in the hunt for bin Laden (327)

Sat July 12, 2008
(Some Guy) PSA Prepare for the Obamapocalypse: Obama leads McCain in Arizona (106)
(Time) Cool "Libertarians are getting ready for the mainstream, and mainstream America may finally be ready for them" (204)
(Reuters) Scary Meet Cynthia McKinney, your Green Party nominee for President of the United States. Yes, that Cynthia McKinney (411)
(WFSB) Stupid Oberry has commanding lead over McCream in latest flavored soda polls (37)
(UPI) Obvious George Bush went on the radio today to let us know that "Democrats in Congress" are largely to blame for higher fuel prices (190)
(USA Today) Obvious The Sunni's, unhappy with the paltry sum that the U.S. is bribing them with to stop killing Americans, want a bigger allowance (34)
(Globe and Mail) Interesting Son of the Shah argues against military intervention in Iran, says the West needs to encourage the Iranian people to rise up against their own government (328)
(Crooks & Liars) Interesting Obama is like Henry VIII, Aquaman, your brother-in-law Phil, Madonna and the Sta-Puft Marshmellow Man, but John McCain is like Bob Dole (35)
(LA Times) Followup The new warrantless wiretapping law is even worse than originally thought (380)
(Talking Points Memo) Amusing New Obama radio ad on John McCain: "He's just making stuff up" (156)
(MSNBC) Asinine North Korea demands apology from South Korea because they were forced to shoot a S. Korean tourist. Wait? What? (85)
(BBC) Followup Iran will photoshop the destruction of Jerusalem and 32 U.S. military bases if it is attacked (364)
(Washington Post) Stupid Washington Post editorial says what we all know: We are a bunch of whiners (46)
(Fox News) Sad Former Bush press secretary Tony Snow dead of cancer at age 53 (1563)
(Minneapolis Star Tribune) Amusing Mac's lack of tact gets flack from Barack (47)
(Independent) Obvious Veterans of the South African anti-apartheid struggle visit Palestinians, and say, "Damn, this is worse than what we had to deal with" (131)
(Some Guy) Obvious Afghan warlords, formerly on the payroll of the CIA, are enemies once again. Now why does THAT sound familiar? (29)
(The New York Times) Obvious Obama chickens out on another proposed town hall meeting with McCain, this time with military families at Fort Hood (290)

Fri July 11, 2008
(Newsweek) PSA Barack Obama's lead in the Newsweek poll slips from 15 points to 3 (282)
(Sporting News) Cool Obama campaign to sponsor car in NASCAR. Car expected to sit at starting line until all other cars realize how awesome the Obama car is, and let it win (64)
(Sadly, No.) Followup Now that the man he sought out to advise him on the economy has let his feelings be known, McCain's message on economics has "landed with a thud, as workers sat in stony silence." (289)
(Huffington Post) Followup The Secret Service did NOT ask the Denver PD to remove the lady with a "McCain = Bush" sign, it was John McCain's campaign staff (80)
(CNN) Amusing At odd times in the race, Barack Obama has entered events to U2's "City of Blinding Lights," Springsteen's "The Rising," or Sam Cooke's "A Change is Gonna Come." What has John McCain picked? Muzak (46)
(Newsweek) Ironic UBS Vice President Phil Gramm's bank is under federal investigation for promising to protect wealthy Americans from the horrors of whining, and losing their money anyway (51)
(Wall Street Journal) Cool Chuck Hagel will join Barack Obama's Iraq trip on a quest to find 390 electoral votes (26)
(Newsday) Dumbass Rep. Rangel sees nothing wrong with paying less than $1,000 a month in rent for each of his apartments (25)
(FanHouse) Dumbass John McCain iron curtains his candidacy in Pittsburgh by being busted pandering to Steeler fans (video) (28)
(Nola.com) Followup New Orleans Police Dept. shirt scandal ironed out (33)
(FiveThirtyEight) Obvious Barack Obama is the new John Kerry, and the new Al Gore. He is also the new Bill Clinton, and the new Ronald Reagan. But, don't forget he is also the new Thomas Dewey. In short, Obama is everything to everyone (101)
(LA Times) Amusing John McCain will make an appearance on "Late Night with Conan O'Brien." Wonder if he'll pull a Wayne Brady after Conan's told all these jokes about him (35)
(NJ.com) Dumbass John Edwards visits, NJ and calls for an increase in minimum wage and a good place for a blowout (23)
(YouTube) Video Not News: Chuck Hagel's son Ziller has a youtube account. News: There's a video of Chuck and his kid playing one-on-one. Fark: Until this moment, no one else knows about it. Farkers...do your thing (55)
(Marketwatch) Dumbass Republicans are going to try this new fangled "internet" thing one more time before permanently storing the darn thing in the attic once and for all (23)
(Talking Points Memo) Dumbass GOP candidate: two weeks ago when I said China was drilling for oil on Florida's beaches I was wrong, but that was two weeks ago and who knows what has happened since (56)
(Salon) Strange We Georgians have a knack for picking unique political candidates. But not even we saw Cynthia McKinney and Bob Barr on the same ticket (20)
(ABC News) Amusing NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg enjoying the beautiful mountains and weather out in "Salt Lake City, Idaho." (75)
(Some Guy) Followup When the Reverend Jesse Jackson was inadvertently heard saying that he would like to castrate Barack Obama, it was simply the latest manifestation of Jackson's career long fear of other men's testicles (50)
(National Review) Asinine A day after publishing an article claiming Obama is exactly like George Bush, NRO publishes an article claiming Obama is exactly like George McGovern (72)
(WNBC) Sick If you're a former State Senator looking for good PR, you might want to avoid killing baby geese in your gas grill with your neighbor watching (93)
(Politico) Unlikely Old and busted: Obama is a secret Muslim. New hotness: Obama is a secret zionist Jew (78)
(FISA) Followup Vile reprehensible disgusting self-destructive buffoonish auto-lobotomized pestilent brain-dead horrific constitution-raping abominable abdicating senatorial responsibility piss for brains (372)
(Yahoo) Dumbass Principal Skinner speaks: Just because Iran's president is batshiat insane, has bragged about acquiring nukes and is test-launching missiles doesn't mean there's anything to worry about (146)
(Nerve) Unlikely The Media thinks it's finally figured out why Hillary lost (Hint: It's not The Media) (78)
(Boston Herald) Ironic MBTA general manager Dan Grabauska tells audience that all of them desperately need to take mass transit . . . right before climbing back into his SUV (44)
(LA Times) Interesting How John McCain lost the Reagan's friendship by divorcing his wife and leaving them for a rich, young hottie who could buy him a seat in Congress (105)
(RealClearPolitics) Interesting Even a 14-year old can tell Obama has changed sinced New Hampshire (135)
(National Review) Interesting Allegory, NRO style: Obama is a goose named Gretchen and Jesse Jackson is trying to put gum in his beak and laugh at him like Tiger Shaw (53)
(Crooks & Liars) Cool Al Franken rolls out a campaign plank that Conservatives and Liberals can both agree on: A law preventing Congressmen from ever being lobbyists (111)
(ABC News) Obvious Obama's strategy to pull out early and pray will most likely not provide enough protection (149)
(The Hill) Obvious How are you liking $4.50 per gallon gasoline? Well, Nancy Pelosi (D 10%) thinks that's not high enough (244)
(Jammie Wearing Fool) Asinine Some New York politicians use their clout to improperly obtain a rent-controlled apartment. But not Rep. Charles B. Rangel (D-isgust). He has FOUR rent-controlled apartments, including one illegally used as a campaign office (38)
(Washington Post) Obvious Think diplomacy is enough to deal with hostile foreign governments and organizations? Reality would like to have a word with you (114)
(Right Wing News) Interesting Indication #347 that the GOP is in trouble in November: Their nominee for the presidency is one of the 5 most disliked Republicans by conservative bloggers (283)
(Daily Mail) Amusing Conservative party member David Davis defeats 26 other candidates, including Mad Cow Girl and Bus Pass Elvis from the Church of the Militant Elvis Party, to win controversial by-election. No, really (16)
(The Scotsman) Stupid Nanny State politicians and public health czars frothing over Scottish brewer's new twelve percent beer. "If it became popular it would have devastating consequences for health as well as social order and violence on the streets" (54)

Thu July 10, 2008
(Huffington Post) Dumbass News: 10 things that should have ended the McCain campaign. Fark: This WEEK alone. WTF: It's just Thursday (130)
(Wonkette) Obvious Anti-gay Alabama Attorney General caught being gay, by his wife, IN THEIR BED (186)
(New Scientist) Asinine Louisiana surpasses the stupidity of Kansas, Florida, and Texas with new bill which names evolution along with global warming, the origins of life, and human cloning as scientifically controversial (271)
(Rasmussen Reports) Sad Obama barely tops 50% in home state. Yeah, he's electable (198)
(Washington Post) Interesting Clinton's big money supporters "underwhelmed" after meeting with Obama. Apparently they are very upset that he's shown no interest in selling them ambassadorships and political appointments (109)
(AP) Cool That's great, General Petraeus, you want a gold star or something? (105)
(Reason Magazine) Obvious McCain and Obama are both spewing 100% pure, unadulterated bullshiat when it comes to the Federal budget (148)
(The New Republic) Dumbass When not sucking up to Chris Matthews on MSNBC, Pat Buchanan spends his time moonlighting on white supremecist radio shows (56)
(Yahoo) Obvious Now you may want to be sitting down for this; but it appears that Karl rove has chosen to ignore a Congressional subpoena for him to testify on the prosecution of Gov. Seigleman and the US attorney firings (223)
(Huffington Post) Amusing Huffington Post helpfully explains that Obama isn't really shifting to the center. The problem is that he's so brilliant no one understands him, and besides, liberals are all insane. Difficulty: No, really (149)
(My Fox Dallas) Stupid Commissioner who claimed "black hole" was a racist term, now says "angel food cake" and "devil's food cake" are also racist terms. On next week's show: Names of gardening tools that are racist (509)
(News.com.au) Amusing Australian government: Ministers are "free to call Scientologists bastards" (27)
(RealClearPolitics) Interesting Barack W. Bush? (104)
(Talking Points Memo) Followup John McCain puts away the grey poupon and arugula, says his economic advisor was wrong to criticize Americans worried about the economy as a "nation of whiners" (46)
(Yahoo) Obvious Nelson Mandela's 8 tips for leadership. Invading a country under false pretenses somehow didn't make the cut (18)
(CBS Pittsburgh) Unlikely During a visit to Pittsburgh, John McCain claimed he gave the names of the Steelers defensive line when interrogated to give names of squadron mates. Also says he left previous wife because she was a Browns fan (112)
(Telegraph) Obvious President George Bush: "Goodbye from the world's biggest polluter" *fist pump* (528)
(AJC) Interesting Barack Obama just may be the most regretful figure in American politics (50)
(Wall Street Journal) Sad The richest 1% of tax filers will have paid more than 40% of the income tax burden. The top 50% will account for 97% of all federal income taxes, while the bottom 50% will have paid just 3%. And Obama is going to fix this (516)
(International Herald Tribune) Amusing French first lady tells paper she has a beer belly, not a baby (57)
(AP) Obvious House passes bill that would help prevent White House from deleting e-mails. White House responds with veto threat, noting that it is none of Congress' business who they are ordering their v1a6ra from (105)
(Think Progress) Video McCain gets nervous and punts on a question after an eerily long 8 second pause. Probably needs to check with Rove and see how he feels about this subject (82)
(USA Today) Stupid USA Today has identified the 6 types of morans who will decide the upcoming election. Well, it doesn't exactly *call* them morans, but yeah (85)
(Crooks & Liars) Followup On cue, conservatives do their best to look like they're actually mad that Obama said you are more employable if you're bilingual (152)
(Taxpayers For Common Sense) Stupid Just what did we get for our money from the new and improved 110th Congress? Let's look at some of the highlights (26)
(Washington Post) Followup McCain claims not to have called Social Security an "absolute disgrace" within 24 hours of having done so (59)
(Daily Kos) Interesting An ex-Republican describes how Philosophy 101 rotted his brain to make liberal brainwashing easier (60)
(USA Today) Stupid What happens when a foreign defense company beats Boeing to build air tankers? If you guessed "Senators overturn the contract in a wave of jingoistic asshattery," come on down (251)
(Some Guy) Amusing The national media was stunned, as if they'd just found out Obama is a Chicago politician rather than a mythic hero of Kennedyesque proportions, who drew the great sword Axelrod from the cornerstone of Chicago's City Hall (63)
(USA Today) Obvious America's inbred illiterate red flyover state bible thumping morans are reproducing more quickly than its liberal coast-dwelling commie elitist pinko gays (282)
(Telegraph) Weird New bill in front of the German parliament aims to wipe away decades of discrimination and exclusion by extending the right to vote to babies (36)
(The Atlantic) Dumbass News: John McCain releases list of 300 economists who support him. Fark: Most of them actually don't support him or most of his economic plan (126)
(tripartisan) Amusing Obama flip-flops on lunch choice (25)
(WKBT) Silly McCain going after the lady vote by holding a females-only town hall, will lather on the Old Spice just in case he finds an heiress richer and younger than his wife (23)
(MSNBC) Obvious John McCain does not talk about Viagra on the Straight Talk Express. And if you're wondering, he has no idea how he voted on the issue of insurance covering Viagra and not birth control (19)
(Vanity Fair) Amusing Remember when Fox photoshopped NYT reporters? Vanity Fair decides to do a little pay back. Hilarity ensues (44)
(Talking Points Memo) Obvious GOP rep: "Because of Obama, increased minority turnout may mean we don't have enough poll workers to stop minorities from voting." Well, that's what he meant, anyway (72)
(CNN) Hero McCain to public: I'm not Bush. Suck it, libs (163)
(CNN) Interesting McCain's age more of a setback to his candidacy than Obama's race is to his. Probably because while Obama is only 50 percent black, McCain is 100 percent old (246)

Wed July 09, 2008
(BusinessWeek) Interesting Right-wing and left-wing nutjobs don't know how to react to the news that a Mexican comic book is being pulled from store shelves after complaints the character is racist (47)
(CNN) Interesting Iran's finger is always "on the trigger", says Hossein Salami of the Revolutionary Guard, indicating that their beef with Israel is far from over, and you never sausage an arsenal anywhere south of New Delhi. Wiener (215)
(AP) Spiffy Kennedy returns to Senate to vote on Medicare bill, stays for happy hour (43)
(Donklephant.com) Interesting Obama's No. 2 prospects: Edwards, Kerry and Bayh (131)
(Free Press) Amusing L0L I H4x0r3D J00R Ph0n3, N008. D37R0i7 sUx0RS l0l (22)
(USA Today) Interesting Jesse Ventura not sure if he is running for the U.S. Senate or will just keep being Captain Freedom (41)
(CNN) Amusing Old news: Obama supporters being asked to help retire Hillary's $22-million campaign debt. News: Obama supporters actually respond and give money to Hillary. Fark: To the tune of less than $100,000 (85)
(CNN) Asinine And the latest right wing attack on Barack Obama is courtesy of Jesse Jackson... wait, wuuuut? (333)
(Breitbart.com) News Senate caves, telecoms saved (968)
(National Review) Obvious "Obama has a great gift at sounding insightful when he insipidly changes the subject to something completely different and more helpful to his cause" (65)
(Some Guy) Stupid GOP study finds companies that built formaldehyde-laced trailers used for Katrina victims shouldn't be held responsible, since nobody told them how much poison they could use in the first place. *Facepalm* (92)
(Hot Air) Stupid Fox News "accidentally" gets Obama/Osama mixed up... again (75)
(538) Interesting If these Zogby Interactive state-by-state poll numbers are true, Barack Obama should start measuring the drapes in the Oval Office (62)
(CBS New York) Stupid Republican club removes its classy slogan, "Obama loves America like O.J. loved Nicole" (340)
(Breitbart.com) Dumbass Obama ist nicht ein Berliner (59)
(Boston Globe) Spiffy Speaker Pelosi on the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserves: Tap that asset (70)
(Daily Kos) Dumbass McCain touches third rail. RIP, McCain campaign (224)
(The Raw Story) Stupid John McCain has adopted the Bush strategery of only accepting questions from friendly reporters. That's some fine Straight Talking, Mr. McMaverick (26)
(Reuters) Stupid Environmental friendliness is important. Which is why it will take Obama so long to put policies in place. Wait, what? (27)
(American Thinker) Dumbass More change we can believe in: A complete lack of understanding of military command structure (175)
(Talking Points Memo) Dumbass After "Bomb Bomb Iran" catapulted to the top of the charts, here's John McCain's latest "joke" about killing Iranians (199)
(ABC News) PSA Barack Obama then: "Barack will support a filibuster of any bill that includes retroactive immunity for telecommunications companies." Barack Obama now: "He will no longer support a filibuster of the bill" (143)
(Miami Herald) Stupid The U.S. government is blocking payment of attorneys representing Gitmo prisoners. Because, uh, you need a special license to pay lawyers. Yeah, that's the ticket (40)
(Gateway Pundit) Stupid Just like John Kerry, Obama is worried that Americans don't know French. Échec (113)
(BBC) Interesting A record 26 candidates are standing in a UK by-election tomorrow. The BBC provides a handy guide to the assorted hopefuls and fruit-loops in the running (21)
(The News & Observer (NC)) Interesting A North Carolina state employee quits a job he held for 29 years rather than lower the flag for Jesse Helms (565)
(MSNBC) Amusing In latest flip-flop, Obama was for his daughters' interview on "Access Hollywood" before he was against it (87)
(CNBC) Unlikely Obama = $40 off oil coupon (90)
(AlterNet) Dumbass Not news: Man gets ticket for having bumper sticker that says "No To Empire." Fark: Police officer says "I don't care if you are a Star Wars fan or not" (145)
(Daily Kos) Obvious McCain explains to Iraq that "sovereignty" means you have the inherent power to do what you're told by the occupation forces (152)
(Some Guy) Amusing Fans use Obama's website against him (181)
(Crooks & Liars) Asinine Veteran asks about McCain not supporting the expansion of healthcare benefits to veterans. McCain answers by talking about education. PANCAKES (62)
(Telegraph) Interesting George W. Bush: Buffoon or Great Leader? (188)
(AFP) Unlikely USA: Russia should be "equal partner" in missile defense. Russia: DIAF (33)
(AP) Stupid McCain doesn't want to talk about his time as a POW. Except in his ads. And speeches. And debates. And interviews. And at fundraisers, meetings, lunch, in his sleep and in the middle of saying he doesn't want to talk about it (61)
(Some Guy) Followup As usual, U.N. Security Council can't decide if Robert Mugabwe's regime is a heroic response to colonial oppression or a bloodthirsty oligarchy that is ruining the country. Stay tuned for the next eight years or so (33)
(SFGate) Obvious Major Latino group hears two speeches by the major presidential candidates - John McCain gets polite applause, Barack Obama gets a standing ovation. Which one's supposed to be in trouble with Hispanics again? (85)

Tue July 08, 2008
(ABC News) Amusing Obama practices tough love with Georgia high school students: "You are probably not that good a rapper. Maybe you are the next Lil' Wayne, but probably not, in which case you need to stay in school" (102)
(The Atlantic) Sad McCain now stealing slogans from 1970s ads run by British Conservatives (36)
(AP) Stupid Obama: Bush has wrecked the budget so badly it's unlikely anyone can balance it in one term. AP: WAAAAAH Obama won't promise to make us magic fairy princesses like McCain does (241)
(Vet Voice) Asinine McCain: I have a perfect voting record with veteran's organizations. Vietnam Vet: No you don't, and here's proof. McCain: NOM NOM NOM (132)
(Wall Street Journal) Interesting Guess who started a prototype affirmative action program in his insurance company clear back in 1965 because he wanted "to do something to help the Negro race to recognize the opportunity that awaits it." Would you believe Jesse Helms? (67)
(Politico) Asinine Networks try and budget for "non-news event." Fark: Non-news event is Barack Obama's acceptance speech (54)
(Donklephant.com) Interesting McCain closes the gap to 2 in national daily tracking poll (107)
(CNN) Amusing Dick Cheney tried to redact Congressional testimony by top CDC scientist about global warming (123)
(Boston Herald) Interesting Dukakis calls for end to Electoral College, demands recount (155)
(Baltimore Sun) Weird The next "First Pet" of the White House may be a ferret (183)
(Rasmussen Reports) Obvious As amazing as it sounds, the American people actually hate something more than they hate Bush (201)
(Dallas News) Followup Texas official, fired for forwarding email about lecture supporting evolution, files intelligently designed lawsuit (127)
(AP) Obvious Obama proposes sweeping changes to help Americans avoid paying any of their debts, ever (172)
(The Raw Story) Interesting Ralph Nader 2008, polling at just two percent, is not the Ralph Nader of 2000. Rather, Bob Barr 2008, polling at six percent, is the Ralph Nader of 2000 (64)
(Washington Post) Interesting Washington, D.C.'s school choice program is a huge success, which is why the Democratic Congress wants to kill it deader than Tupac (227)
(The New York Times) Amusing It's not news, it's the NY Times explaining how Fox News goes on the attack whenever anyone tries to cover them (73)
(Washington Post) Obvious "I have long been frustrated by the way some bloggers viciously deride the MSM even while relying day in and day out on the (expensive) news gathering of the self-same dreadful Fourth Estate. Talk about ungrateful" (51)
(The New York Times) Obvious Liberal Democrats, DailyKos, Code Pink, and Huff Post simultaneously catch fire and heads explode as top Clinton advisor calls Fox News comprehensive, fair and evenhanded (137)
(MSNBC) Obvious Iranian official, on military strike: "If they commit such a stupidity, Tel Aviv and U.S. shipping in the Persian Gulf will be Iran's first targets and they will be burned" (359)
(Baltimore Sun) Cool John McCain says that when he's president, he'll cut taxes on hot chicks (106)
(Wired) Unlikely Proposed amendment would put spy lawsuits and telcom amnesty on hold until a dog-and-pony-show investigation could be completed... a year from now (27)
(Reason Magazine) Interesting "Apparently, U.S. law now applies everywhere in the world except Guantanamo Bay" (56)
(Some Guy) Dumbass Bush is frantically doling out favors before his presidency comes to an end (61)
(AP) Interesting Seems Mr. Obama didn't think about one thing when he decided to move his acceptance speech to Invesco Field: The TV networks don't have the resources right now to pull that off (204)
(Yahoo) Silly Pet owners prefer McCain over Obama. No word on whether or not Obama has any chance with left-handed, red headed, midget clowns (46)
(NBC10) Stupid Small towns in America are finally realizing that the Fourth Amendment is gone, start grabbing anything that's not nailed down (201)
(YouTube) Spiffy Colbert goes OOC for John Kerry, shows his truthiness (67)
(Some Guy) Dumbass If you're a senator, perhaps using Hotmail isn't the best of ideas (14)
(Guardian.com) Interesting Poll lists the top words used by voters to describe McCain and Obama, including such revelations that the No. 1 word used for McCain is "old" and that three percent of responders used "Muslim" to describe Obama (68)
(MSNBC) Followup MSNBC is the first network to admit they jumped the gun on Obama changing his stance on Iraq, given that he didn't change his stance on Iraq (144)
(Slate) Asinine How an obscure rule allows the FBI to shove irreplaceable historical records down the memory hole. Doubleplus ungood (39)

Mon July 07, 2008
(The Tennessean) Strange Tennessee Republican sponsors bill to allow electric Hummers on state roads. Next on agenda: Leash laws for unicorns, and pixie dust for medicinal use (19)
(AFP) Interesting Webb rules out serving as Barack Obama's VP, will instead return to making cryptic phone calls to Pamela Landy (59)
(Some Guy) Sad What will 143 days of senate and no military experience get you? Probably Commander in Chief (402)
(AP) Obvious Study finds gays in the military do not undermine unit cohesion, interior design of foxholes (60)
(Reuters) Interesting Just how bad is the U.S.'s credibility? Panama says no to us (65)
(YouTube) Video McCain Courts the Female Vote. With. Raw. Sex (24)
(Some Guy) Asinine Secret Service to 61 year old librarian: "Your 'McCain=Bush' sign is a threat to national security." Meanwhile Bin Laden still at large (77)
(9 News) Obvious DNC says even though convention is currently $11 million in the red, it can afford to move Obama's acceptance speech to outdoor stadium by simply raising taxes before Obama is even elected (57)
(Wonkette) Dumbass Bush quotes Jefferson during his 4th of July speech, conveniently ellipses over the part where Jefferson calls religion "the chains under which monkish ignorance and superstition had persuaded them to bind themselves" (81)
(ABC News) Silly McCain: "Obama will take away your Crocs." In related news, Obama now winning 100% of voters who don't look ridiculous (68)
(CNN) Interesting Poll shows voters' economic worries on par with 1992. Oh yes, 1992, a geriatric war hero who couldn't understand technology against a charismatic hip dude, wonder what happened then (66)
(CNN) Obvious Supplies intended for Katrina victims instead went to the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks. We're from the government and we're here to help (101)
(ClusterStock) Dumbass What do getting re-elected in politics and solving the oil crisis have in common? Nothing, unfortunately (16)
(The Consumerist) Asinine The Department of Homeland Security wants airlines to be able to remotely taser you (151)
(Chicago Sun-Times) Interesting Jerry Garcia rises from the Dead to endorse Obama. Look for a Deadhead sticker on the presidential seal come November (60)
(Canada.com) Stupid Prime Minister Stephen Harper criticized for saying the Liberal climate change plan would "screw the country," unveils alternative plan to screw the country (36)
(Donklephant.com) Interesting Obama to accept nomination at Invesco Field, which seats over 76,000. The last presidential candidate to accept a nomination at a stadium? JFK (145)
(Canoe) Asinine Funkmaster Bush shows his street cred by giving his favorite homey a shout-out at the G8, fo' shizzle (32)
(Reuters) Misc American and Polish diplomats have reached an impasse over missile defense talks, with neither side willing to give ground on the number of people required to change a light bulb (8)
(Christian Post) Interesting Conservatives on Barack Obama's faith-based initative plans: Bah dah bah dah dah, they're loving it (53)
(Crooks & Liars) Asinine Q: How do you know when you've been sniffing a little too much glue? A: When you suggest that George Bush would be an "awesome" high school government teacher (37)
(Some Guy) Unlikely Religious conservatives hoping the issue of homosexual marriage can help the GOP come from behind (1059)
(Reuters) Cool Congress: We uh, need to leave, bad Iraq, uh Bush, hmm, appropriation, timetables, well -- give us a minute. Iraq: GTFO (76)
(Fox News) Ironic Anarchists organize a plan to crash GOP Convention (108)
(SFGate) Interesting Today's Obomics lesson: "Obamacans" -- Obama's term for Republicans who whisper their support for him. "Obamacons" -- leading conservatives of various stripes who have declared their support (70)
(MSNBC) Interesting Conservatives remind Senator McCain just whose campaign this is, work to prevent him from pushing his planks at the GOP convention (50)
(AFP) Dumbass Embattled Bush celebrated his 62nd birthday by practicing stabbing little children in the eye (42)
(Guardian.com) Amusing Hugo Chavez decides to see how much he can piss off his own army. You go, Hugo (74)
(Yahoo) Sad Obama even gives his political enemies hope. In this case, hope that they can turn excerpts of him reading "Dreams From My Father" into devastating attack ads (138)
(SeattlePI) Obvious WMD uranium in Saddam's Iraq? Its more likely than you thought (144)
(Some Guy Who Only Takes Tips) Caption Caption these mohels and their Milah subject (95)
(AP) Scary Suicide car bomb kills 28, wounds 141 in Kabul. In other news, there's apparently some sort of war in Afghanistan (189)
(RealClearPolitics) Interesting "Those of us who believe in free markets, small government, peace, capitalism, civil liberties and the Constitution will lose, no matter who wins in November" (274)
(LA Times) Obvious GOP leader: "If you have a "(R)" in front of your name, you better run scared" (49)
(Politico) Interesting McCain promises to balance the budget within four years, make pigs fly (153)
(CTV) Dumbass "McCain doesn't have the judgment to be president." says the man who asked him to be his running mate in the 2004 presidential election (317)

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