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Sun August 31, 2008
(Politico) Interesting Why the GOP fell so far, so fast. Surprise: It's not all Bush fault? (79)
(Crooks & Liars) Amusing How much is the experience issue biting the McCain campaign in the ass? They're now citing Palin's PTA presidency as proof of her executive experience (313)
(The Mansfield Herald) Interesting The List of Over 200 Presidential Candidates for the 2008 Election (40)
(ABC News) Obvious John McCain suspends his campaign on Monday, plans to spend the day praying for New Orleans, banging his hot wife (103)
(ABC News) Obvious Biden on Difference Between Him and Palin: "She's Good Looking" (299)
(Daily Kos) Followup The audio tape confirming Palin's pressure tactics in troopergate is online for your listening pleasure (283)
(Right Wing News) Interesting 25 reasons to love Sarah Palin as VP (487)
(Yahoo) Interesting Those 'historians' questioning Palin's credentials? Two maxed-out Obama donors, one exclusive Democrat donor, and one former Gephardt speech writer. I think they just may have had an agenda (332)
(Google) Asinine Trillions of dollars, thousands dead, and many more wounded later, the first lucrative Iraqi oil contract goes to... the Chinese? (103)
(Seattle Times) Obvious "Republican" label so toxic, WA Republican candidates aligning with Obama, shun McCain (69)
(ScienceDebate 2008) Cool Obama answers 14 questions on science policy submitted by scientists (245)
(Time) Cool Move over Britney, Sarah Palin is now Queen of YouTube (204)
(The New York Times) Obvious Advisors say McCain really wanted to pick Lieberman, but couldn't withstand the pressure from social conservatives. Maverick (88)
(Daily Kos) Weird McCain says that the younger woman he chose to be with him through the most important times in his life is his "soul mate". Awww, how sweet. Wait...he wasn't talking about his wife? (74)
(Salon) Obvious Fearing drum circles and jam sessions, Minn. police conduct warrantless 'paramilitary raids' on 'hippie houses' in run-up to RNC. Your civil rights would surrender but they can't stop staring at their gigantic hands, man (122)
(CNN) Asinine Cindy McCain is HIGHLY OFFENDED by Obama painting the McCains as multiple-home-owning, $100 million estimated worth elitists (132)
(Pajamas Media) Followup Obama's convention bounce had a shorter shelf life than those 19-0 New England Patriot T-shirts (204)
(Politico) Obvious Obama's followers, like those of Jesus, seem to have problems interpreting the instructions of their leader (76)
(AP) Obvious Russia shows their support for an independent South Ossetia by absorbing it into their country (137)
(ABC News) Obvious Bush may not attend Republican National Convention because of possible disaster. Also, there might be a hurricane (42)
(The Atlantic) Dumbass McCain's VP candidate has 31% of undecideds running to Obama. Oops (174)
(New York Daily News) Interesting She is a direct response to the false promises of the Obama campaign thus far. She is a direct response to the cloying pageantry of the DNC. And she is a direct response to the empty platitudes of "hope and change" (134)
(Daily Kos) Asinine A closer look at Trooper-Taser-Moosegate (156)
(Some Guy) Unlikely "To Barack Obama, the son of a black man from Kenya and a white man from Kansas" (36)
(Guardian.com) Unlikely Early indications suggest operation to re-attach Gordon Brown's bollocks is a success (5)
(CNN) Amusing The GOP will have some big stars at their convention too, like...uh... that one guy....and that chick that was in that thing....and...uh... well, Arnold will be ther...oh, what? He won't? Sonofa-- (62)
(Huffington Post) Interesting John McCain may give his acceptance speech from the disaster zone this week. No, not from St. Paul (74)
(Yahoo) Followup Six things Palin pick says about McCain (124)
(Some Guy) Video Presumptive Republican VP Sarah Palin was once a sports anchor in Alaska. Boom goes the dynamite (164)
(Telegraph) Obvious "Barack Obama had it all...and then it changed" (334)

Sat August 30, 2008
(Some Guy) Cool Obama/Biden: Because we have ice cream, biatches (162)
(YouTube) Cool Think Sarah Palin is sexy now? Wait til you see this (237)
(Silicon Alley Insider) Obvious Barack Obama lifting up couch cushions, looking under the bed, trying to find his missing Web video mojo (48)
(Washington Times) Interesting Hillary Clinton's supporters are so torqued that she is getting zip, nothing, nada, that they want her to be acclaimed Senate majority leader and Empress of Washington (77)
(UPI) Obvious Sarah Palin has the lowest voter confidence of any vice presidential pick since Dan Quayle, making her a political hot potatoe (170)
(NYPost) Obvious Palin is a "brilliant trap" set for the Obama supporters who want to argue inexperience: "If you are so concerned about the amount of experience of the vice president, what about the top of your ticket?" (250)
(Politico) Obvious In shocking development, GOP plans to prominently feature McCain's POW story at their convention (84)
(NYPost) Cool GOP may cancel the boring speeches at their convention and turn it into a fund-raising event for the inevitable victims of hurricane Gustav (86)
(NewsBusters) Amusing Maher on Olbermann on Obama: "The coverage after, that I was watching, from MSNBC, I mean these guys were ready to have sex with him" (92)
(Palinfacts) Amusing Sarah Palin recently doubled her foreign relations experience by trying sushi for the first time (56)
(The Raw Story) Sad Doubleplusgood. Bush quietly seeks to keep war powers permanent by declaring an indefinite state of war (249)
(Think Progress) Obvious If you have a weak heart, please do not read this. Karl Rove, that pillar of integrity, changes his mind about small state governors being qualified to be VP now that the Republicans are the party that picked one (141)
(RealClearPolitics) Amusing All of a sudden, conservatives are in near-universal agreement that nobody is ready to be president...you know, if you think about it. My, wonder what brought that on? (116)
(Rasmussen Reports) Interesting News: Opinions of Palin as VP are split on gender lines. Fark: Women dislike the choice more than men (182)
(TMZ) Dumbass Step 1: Be John Edwards. Step 2: Be John Edwards. Step 3: Charge $65,000 to talk to people (34)
(National Review) Interesting NRO's David Frum opens the Sixth Seal (232)
(Business & Media Institute) Obvious Proof Michael Moore would like to see the destruction of New Orleans and people die (90)
(CNN) Scary Police raid RNC protestors HQ. Discover marijuana, KY jelly, Jiffy Pop and 4,800 copies of WoW (77)
(Andrew Halco) Interesting Why would a Governor's husband sit in on private meetings and receive classified emails? It's not government, it's Alaska (77)
(AlterNet) Obvious Liberals fear Sarah Palin because they know how dumb we are (199)
(Some Guy) Spiffy Another shining example of the kind of subtle, well reasoned political prose you have come to expect from the nimble pen of Ted Nugent (41)
(Daily Kos) Obvious Governor MILF faked a pregnancy to hide the fact that her 16 year old daughter was preggers, possibly as the result of incest. Boy that is going to make one heck of a porn film (693)
(The New York Times) Obvious Crusader discovers a surprising cure for India's caste bias: personal wealth (17)
(Middle-East Online) Strange As disreputable opponents try to 'smear' Barack Obama by calling him a Muslim, Muslim Americans fight back with . . . hula hoops? (10)
(Some Guy) Stupid People on the streets questioned about why they're wearing Che Guevara t-shirts (75)
(AP) Stupid "Get your bikini, hooka and your RV, honey. We be going to RONSTOCK 2008" (136)
(Bloomberg) Asinine Iraq offers to sell oil to Jordan for the whopping sum of $22 per barrel. Mission Accomplished? (50)
(People Magazine) Interesting People magazine presents their cover pic of the McCain and the Palin families. Minus McCain's adopted daughter for some reason (209)
(Some Guy) Asinine Alaska republicans on Palin's qualifications: "She's old enough," Harris said. "She's a US citizen" (203)
(Yahoo) Stupid Obama's acceptance speech got him a three point bump in the polls. In comparison, Michael Dukakis got seven points (127)
(Daily Kos) Dumbass Breaking: Palin may have committed cardinal internet sin of editing her own Wikipedia entry. Bonus: To call herself a politician of "eye-popping integrity" (162)
(ABC News) Stupid Sarah Palin's not really a big fan of science, whether it's evolution or the fact that global warming is man-made (172)
(Sky.com) Obvious Michael Stipe on what will happen if McCain gets elected: "Well I'd have to move to England. It is unfathomable to me as an American and a world citizen that anyone would vote for that man" (141)

Fri August 29, 2008
(Newsweek) Followup Factchecking Obama. He told the truth, except for when he was lying (436)
(Yahoo) Interesting Both Barack Obama and running mate Joseph Biden are descended from shoemakers who left Ireland within weeks of each other. Who knew there were Muslim cobblers in 1849 (82)
(Talking Points Memo) Interesting So you know that investigation into Palin's alleged abuse of power? Turns out the findings are going to be reported a few days before election day (262)
(Yahoo) Misc 38 million people watched Obama give his Sermon on the M...er, acceptance speech (84)
(Washington Post) Obvious Bush declares state of emergency, leaving FEMA scrambling to bake birthday cake and tune guitar (55)
(Politico) Scary If you met once six months ago, followed-up by one phone call since, do you consider her your girlfriend? Nope, you call her your VP candidate (283)
(National Review) Followup How popular is the Palin pick with the Republican base? "One person said they had to hit the donate button on McCain's website five times before they didn't get a server error." (326)
(Daily Kos) Obvious Think Democrats have all the drama this year? Well, Romney and Pawlenty aren't too happy with McCain's pick (144)
(YouTube) Dumbass Someone send VP candidate Sarah Palin a job description, STAT. In other news, we need a facepalm tag (185)
(Huffington Post) Asinine McCain, scourge of the RIAA, continues to pirate songs from artists that hate him. They must not have had copyright law when he was a POW (62)
(Annals of Improbable Research) Interesting According to totally scientific, completely unbiased algorithm, Obama will win (43)
(Politico) Dumbass ...because the best way to welcome a historic Vice-Presidential candidate is to belittle her as much as possible as soon as the news is out (199)
(Some Guy) Amusing Redstate.com finds an unusual angle to laud the McCain/Palin ticket: Their font choice (34)
(Politico) Obvious Obama to staff: "Did you even listen to my speech last night?" (228)
(Some blog) Dumbass Steve Doocey: Sarah Palin has foreign policy experience because her state is close to Russia (106)
(Borowitz Report) Obvious McCain: Obama Lacks Experience Running 5,000-Person Town in Alaska (235)
(Think Progress) Interesting Surely being a governor is a lot of government experience, right? Well, guess how many days the Alaska legislature is in session each year. If your guess hits 3 digits, think again (332)
(Crooks & Liars) Followup Palin's crash course in government will have to include foreign policy and all non-fish related domestic policy. Oh yeah, and what exactly it is the Vice President does (139)
(Washington Post) Obvious McCain's choice of a creationist inspires evangelicals, single cell organisms (135)
(AFP) Ironic Obama says Palin has "zero experience". That's like the pot calling....oooh, er, um...this could get ugly (427)
(Gallup) Interesting The convention bounce for Obama is still going up - lead over McCain has stretched to eight points (49-41). Bonus: Poll was conducted before Obama's acceptance speech (64)
(Anchorage Daily News) Followup "Palin could do something few Republicans seem interested in or able to do these days: Help fuse the two pillars of the Reagan Revolution, traditional conservatives and libertarian Republicans." (304)
(Something Awful) Amusing Presenting the John McCain Attack Ad Generator (140)
(C|Net) Stupid DNC promotes the greenest convention in history, could have been greener had the celebs and VIP's not left their SUV's and limo's running while they waited (77)
(National Post) Interesting Six reasons Prime Minister Harper should call an election (246)
(Rocky Mountain News) Interesting If you wanted to park near Annointing Field at Mile High last night, it would have cost you $80 (43)
(www.vpilf.com) Amusing Not News: VPILF.com News: NOT a porn site Fark: Mainstreaming the meme (480)
(MSNBC) Followup Best tagline of the newsflash storm: To hammer home the message that 47 year old, first-term senator Obama is too inexperienced to be president, John McCain picks 44 year old first-term governor Sarah Palin as his running mate (1770)
(National Post) Sad Canada's only cowboy hat wearing Member of Parliament won't be running for reelection (34)
(CNBC) Obvious No matter who wins the election, in four years we'll be looking back and wishing we had the economic propserity that was the Bush Administration (55)
(National Review) NewsFlash Attention disgruntled Hillary voters: John McCain just made things interesting by picking Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate (3110)
(National Review) Obvious NRO writer finds three college students stoned out on the reefer drugs at Obama's speech, which proves Obama supporters are all young whippersnappers hopped up goofballs (54)
(Miami Herald) Amusing Dave Barry recounts Obama's 67 yard field goal last night, and other things you need to know about the convention (171)
(NYPost) Unlikely MSNBC's paranoid pundit Keith Olbermann tells his bosses he needs better security because someone is out to assassinate him. You know you have issues when Connie Chung tells you to grow up (125)
(National Review) Unlikely Obama's Speech clearly made NRO's Jonah Goldberg snap completely: "I will dream that John Kasich [is the vp pick] . If that happens, you can close the books on the presidential race and start looking at the coattails" (88)
(Daily Kos) Ironic McCain campaign misuse's apostrophe on product for student's. My friend's, when I was a POW we didn't have punctuation mark's (154)
(YouTube) Amusing "Best Speech Ever" according to some liberal pundit named Pat on MSNBC (205)
(National Review) Interesting Multiple sources claiming McCain has picked Pawlenty as his running.........wait, who? (374)
(Washington Post) Interesting GOP considers delaying convention until after hurricanes Gustav and Barack pass (196)
(Some Guy) Interesting Vice President Dick Cheney plans to travel to the Republic of Georgia next week and shoot Putin in the face (85)
(Fox News) Dumbass AP Writer Charles Babington fires off the first article about Obama's speech. You can tell why he was first, because he obviously didn't watch it (119)
(Fox News) Obvious Baskins-Robbins releases "Straight Talk Crunch" flavor for John McCain. Little bits of real pancakes give the taste a real POW (67)

Thu August 28, 2008
(USA Today) Obvious Jimmy Carter claims that John McCain is milking his time as a POW. John McCain replies, "You know, that reminds me of the time when I had to milk rats for sustenance, you know, back when I was a POW. " (186)
(CNN) Amusing Mayor of Minneapolis plans to get GOP good and drunk...so the Demorcrats can "cross the Delaware" and win the election (video) (31)
(Time) Followup Text of Obama's acceptance speech (728)
(Washington Times) Interesting Respected legislative scorecard rates Obama, based on his 2007 voting record, as the most liberal member of the Senate, even more liberal than the socialist Bernard Sanders (123)
(CNN) Obvious John McCain selects Wilford Brimley as running mate. Diabeetus (57)
(National Review) Interesting Not news: Democrat wants to take your guns. News: Said Democrat is Obama. Fark.com: He has a degree in Constitutional law (297)
(Daily Kos) Obvious Anecdote uses anecdotal evidence to prove that Republicans would vote for Obama if they just quit watching cable news (36)
(AJC) Spiffy DNC finale discussion thread: Obama's Toga party and BBQ festival is on. Al Gore is bringing the red meat. Stevie Wonder and The Boss bring the tunes (2459)
(Talking Points Memo) Dumbass Lieberman is so unpopular he damages McCain's standing amongst everyone including old Jewish voters in Florida. Seriously (72)
(Komo) Fail Fake $3 bill with Obama in an Arabic headdress? Check. Openly racist text on said "currency"? Yup. Party chair having no idea how the bills got in the GOP booth ? You betcha (626)
(ABC News) Obvious Clinton supporters are now funding McCain's campaign. No word on how McCain will pay for airtime with overly-aged grapes (40)
(National Review) Obvious Even the NRO thinks Romney would be an epic Titanic disaster of a VP pick (62)
(Starpulse) Obvious Charles Barkley hopes that his gubernatorial run won't be turrible (19)
(Time) Obvious During John McCain's first run for congress in the '70s his opponent accused him as a "Johnny come-lately." McCain's reply? Take a good guess (68)
(ClusterStock) Scary Having trouble making ends meet in Bush economy? This will make you feel better... Iraq war lobbyist so rich, he wraps gifts in dollar bills (29)
(Politico) Strange Second Grader calls McCain a "fancy pants". Oh wait, that's the senior senator from New York (22)
(Hot Air) Interesting How about Fred Thompson for McCain's VP? Sure, it would an all-old ticket, but Fred would invigorate the conservative base as if Zombie Reagan busted his way out of the grave (52)
(LA Times) Interesting McCain argues that life starts at conception, points out he spent 5 1/2 years in his mother's womb (56)
(Talking Points Memo) Stupid The South Carolina GOP releases an ad hitting back at criticism of John McCain's "seven houses" gaffe. Three guesses as to what it exclusively focuses on, and the first two don't count (38)
(CNN) Followup The McCain campaign - "Um, that guy who said everyone's got health insurance because they can go to the ER? Yeah, he's totally not an official campaign adviser" (250)
(AP) Followup Yahoo: McCain has chosen running mate, but isn't saying who. AP: McCain has not yet chosen running mate. Slap fight to ensue (158)
(Pajamas Media) Amusing It ain't a Democratic Convention 'til the hippies in giant papier mache puppets show up (142)
(Time) Sad Old and busted: Straight Talk Express. New hotness: Talking points jet (50)
(Washington Post) Strange Obama will give acceptance speech on the anniversary of King's 'Dream" speech, in the first open-air setting since JFK, in a stadium that gets nuked in a Tom Clancy novel (40)
(Excite) Scary DNC has first major PR nightmare as J.Lo and Ben Affleck show up, leading to impromptu Gigli reunion (72)
(Some Guy) Ironic Laura Ingram and Pat Buchanan think that the Democrats at the DNC are using too many personal stories of life tragedy to try and garner sympathy. No, seriously (72)
(Wall Street Journal) Followup Russia responds to Dick Cheney's little adventure in Georgia by cutting U.S. chick and pork imports. Col. Sanders mobilizes his militia (41)
(Politico) Unlikely Teresa Heinz Kerry: My old man won in 2004, the Republicans stole the election. In related news, nobody would blame John Kerry for cheating on this nutbar (74)
(Think Progress) Obvious Proof God hates the GOP: A massive hurricane is going to land on the anniversary of Katrina as Bush takes the RNC stage (499)
(BBC) Interesting Ethiopia really needs to talk to Somalia about something important (33)
(Guardian.com) Obvious The Guardian posts the results from their DNC speech drinking game. The people who picked to drink when they heard the word God wound up being the designated drivers (162)
(Guardian.com) Scary Thai courts try to bring peaceful end to armed takeover of Prime Minister's compound, but protesters Phuket up (47)
(Boston Herald) Amusing Rap group that wrote 'Kill Bill O'Reilly' song don't know what alarms them most - the death threats from his fans, or the fact none of them can write: "They all get about a D-minus in grammar and spelling" (409)
(Denver Post) Amusing Business at Denver strip clubs lackluster during the DNC. Why don't the Democrats support single moms? (117)
(Daily Kos) Obvious If McCain picks Romney, the Republican ticket will be shared by two guys who own over sixty pieces of real estate combined (333)
(CJR) Amusing Columbia Journalism Review numerically breaks down what the media are doing at the DNC: "4,021 are smugly bad-mouthing the convention and its participants. 1,026 are drunk. This is as it should be. " (66)
(Michelle Malkin) Unlikely FYI: The anti-war activists who marched in Denver last night weren't anti-war activists at all. They were pro-war McCain supporters who just wanted to watch Rage Against the Machine perform (183)
(YouTube) Amusing It's nice to know that in this bad economy there's one guy who's business is booming. The Repo Man (76)
(SFGate) Obvious Television ratings for this year's Democratic convention are dwarfing those of four years ago. Network bidding war for Sasha Obama reality series commencing in 3... 2... 1 (83)
(The Hill) Dumbass Foreign policy/military expert Biden doesn't know the difference between a brigade and a battalion. And he's probably smarter than most on the Hill. Shudder (119)
(Huffington Post) Ironic John Kerry gives the speech of his life.... four years too late (138)
(NewsBusters) Asinine "Let's wrap him up:": Olbermann tries to get rid of Republican pundit (279)
(Yahoo) Hero McCain picks VP. Launches plan to announce via an emerging new technology called "the telegraph" (353)
(Politico) Obvious Why should Democrats be praying that former POW John McCain picks Joe Lieberman for VP? Karl Rove has been working for a week trying to kill it (114)
(Think Progress) Scary Based on his comments on 9/10/01, Biden may have had a hand in 9/11. Now know why Obama didn't pick Hillary- not enough experience (94)
(YouTube) Amusing Joe Scarborough lets the previous day's tiff with Keith Olbermann spill over into "Morning Joe" as he gets into a war with David Shuster (105)
(Daily Kos) Fail McCain's easy solution to health care, just pretend there is no one without insurance (395)
(Fox 14 - KFJX) Fail McCain camp doesn't seem to notice that Obama's C-H-A-N-G-E spells another word when the first and last letter are off-frame (144)
(Daily Kos) Fail GOP Party Platform decides to ban all stem-cell research, including entirely privately funded research. Michael J. Fox last seen swimming across the Rio Grande (225)

Wed August 27, 2008
(Some Guy) Amusing Not news: Bob Barr has ballot access in Texas. News: No one else has filed for Presidential ballot access in Texas. Fark: The deadline to file was yesterday (167)
(Minneapolis Star Tribune) Dumbass Columnist: Why I, a Clinton supporter, will cut off my nose to spite my face (154)
(Breitbart.com) Amusing Dems pick "Temple/White House" set instead of "Manger/Stable with Kneeling Livestock" set for speech. Sheep, cows, and camels are protesting (65)
(C-SPAN) PSA Discussion thread for Democratic National Convention Night III: Bill Clinton & Joe Biden tag team (scheduled to begin 9pm Eastern) (1399)
(Time) Amusing Obama campaign chief of staff calls McCain a "schmuck," sparking yet another bitter feud between Dumbass- and Obvious-tag aficionados (49)
(Washington Post) Interesting During the Republican National Convention, the Democratic Party is making it so you won't be able to turn around without seeing BIG HUG 2K4 (70)
(Some Guy) Amusing Hillaryis44 provides a transcript of Hillary's speech last night. Except for those pesky parts where she said good things about Obama or told PUMA's they were insane for supporting McCain (71)
(MSNBC) NewsFlash For the first time outside of reel life, a major political party has nominated an African-American for President of the United States of America (1092)
(The New Republic) Obvious All those "Messiah complex" complaints from the right? Turns out they're just concerned because this is the first time the Democratic Party has a candidate people are enthusiastic about (292)
(Denver Post) Stupid DNC announces that alcohol will not be available from concession stands at Invesco Field. In other news, Ted Kennedy has announced he won't be attending (29)
(CNN) Amusing What can Hillary's body language tell us about how she -really- feels about Obama? It's not news it's CNN. Bonus: The comments are made of win (115)
(CSMonitor) Obvious The DNC protest zones in Denver draw exactly the same number of protesters as the ones the Chinese set up for the Olympics, showing how awesome free speech really is (90)
(Denver Post) Interesting ABC producer arrested for following the money falling out of the pockets of VIP donors at private fundraisers around Denver (131)
(Slate) PSA Will Bubba steal the show? Will Biden rip off another speech? It's day 3 of the Democratic National Convention Discussion Thread (1036)
(Deceiver) Followup Why did Rocketboom cost over $800,000 to launch? And isn't it weird that the money came from Rielle Hunter's best friend Fred Baron? (31)
(Daily Kos) Obvious This just in: The US media sucks. And even libs notice (91)
(NYPost) Obvious Pelosi laments her accomplishments in other areas have been "eclipsed" by her failure to adhere to her campaign promise of ending the war, then gets heckled (79)
(Politico) Followup Turns out Daddy Yankee tried to endorse Obama first, but was told his music sucks and to fark off (140)
(Michelle Malkin) Hero Michelle Malkin calls it like it is... Ayers is not only a flag-trampling apologist for domestic terror. He's an inveterate liar (302)
(Fox News) Amusing How's this for organized? Democratic icon George McGovern shows up in Denver for DNC -- has no credentials or any idea where to go. Ends up being escorted to the arena. By Fox News (91)
(Will Willkinson) Obvious "The far-left has failed so comprehensively to make the case for its vision that the only thing left to do is to brazenly assert the world will literally collapse unless we implement this otherwise indefensible vision" (541)
(Some Guy) Spiffy Illinois woman learns she owns Barack Obama's Jeep after she discovers it drives on water (69)
(New York Daily News) Dumbass McCain says Obama "invites aggression" but doesn't quite explain how, then proceeds to invite a little aggression of his own by continually calling Russians "Soviets." (123)
(Free Press) Stupid Media sends 15,000 journalists to convention who then don't follow what's going on, dismissing it as a four-day infomercial (25)
(Rocky Mountain News) Obvious How do you know when John McCain is lying? His ad is playing (311)
(CNN) Interesting Bill Clinton won't be joining Obama at Invesco Field on Thursday, says he doesn't want to miss "Grey's Anatomy" (48)
(YouTube) Cool Kucinich kicks ass at convention, goes home to hot wife (125)
(NJ.com) Dumbass Ted Kennedy still inspires. For instance, last night he inspired the bartender to pour him a double bourbon (52)
(Newsweek) Misc "Reporter" searches for Hillary at Hooter's. Subby thinks they are better off searching at Lou's Crab Shack (50)
(Boston Herald) Silly Democrats bicker over how hard to hit McCain, fail to consult the Vietcong (183)
(Statesman) Interesting University of Texas professors have their durka durkas in a wad over attempt to endow former U.S. Rep.Charlie Wilson with a chair in Pakistan studies (27)
(Chicago Boyz) Obvious "Looking at Ayers, one is forced to ask exactly what kind of leftist extremism would be considered unacceptable by Obama and his cohorts." (211)
(OpEd News) Ironic Article plagiarizes Joe Biden (20)
(Tax Foundation) Unlikely California may have a ballot initiative increasing the state income tax on the rich from 9 percent to 44 percent and taking 55 percent of assets over $20 million if the uber-rich move out of state to avoid the tax (474)
(NewsBusters) Hero Kid Rock feels that entertainers should stick to entertaining, and not offer their opinion on politics (182)
(Washington Post) Dumbass There is too much information on the intratubes. We need to tax and limit it (118)
(NYPost) Asinine The only rancorous debate that MSNBC is covering at the Democratic convention is between their egomaniacal anchormen (339)
(Boston Globe) Unlikely Romney: "McCain earned his eight houses. Obama didn't." Well, I suppose seducing rich women half your age IS hard work (175)
(ClusterStock) Stupid McCain to America: Are you better off now than you were 8 years ago? No? How about 3 years ago then? Yeah, that's what I'm talking about (115)
(Yahoo) Interesting Obama's choice of Biden as VP at least accomplished one thing: It scared the hell out of the Republicans and completely messed up McCain's VP selection process (234)
(The Raw Story) Interesting Anti-abortion group claims to have displayed the largest ever protest sign in history, towering over the Democratic National Convention in Denver at 530 feet tall and 666 feet wide, winning the Guinness record for attention whoring (373)
(Washington Post) Obvious PA Governor (D) on Obama:"WTF is this guy's problem?" (149)
(Boston Globe) Asinine Mitt Romney shows up at Democratic Convention. That guy will say or do anything to get elected. He's the Clark Rockefeller of politicians (39)
(AlterNet) Interesting The war in Iraq is going so well that troops deaths are happening at a lower rate than in Afghanistan *OR* The war in Afghanistan is going so poorly that troops deaths are happening at a higher rate than Iraq. Gentlemen, choose your spin (40)
(UPI) Obvious Hillary Clinton, to convention: "MY FRIENDS my minions, WE MUST SUPPORT be patient my lovelies SUPPORT the time for revenge BARACK OBAMA draws near ENTHUSIASTICALLY I will rule the world, MUAHAHA...er, muahhaha (143)
(Seacoastonline.com) Spiffy Polls go around tonight, well he's bound to take from the right, there's a Bob Barr on the rise (65)
(Some Guy) Obvious Plastic surgeon sees evidence that Hillary Clinton's face has been firmed-up with laser treatments and received injections of a 'dermafiller', resulting in a more life-like appearance than the previous Nexus-6 product line (26)
(YouTube) Amusing PUMA, sensing she's on the verge of extinction, has meltdown on CNN after Hillary's speech (211)
(Fox News) Obvious Newly released documents prove Obama is the Manchurian candidate for the Weather Underground (205)
(CNN) Asinine Biden a mistake, Giuliani says. In other news, antibiotics are a mistake, bacteria says (63)
(Daily Kos) Interesting Ted Kennedy gave last night's speech with brain cancer AND kidney stones. He must have been drowning in pain (71)
(CNN) Ironic Is Elizabeth Edwards - A: The scorned wife of a cheating husband? B: Brave fighter of cancer? or C: Being blasted by Democrats for keeping affair secret to help husband's political career? (74)

Tue August 26, 2008
(Daily Kos) Asinine Problem: You're a Fox News Reporter and Michele Obama fails to say something you can attack her for. Solution: Ask "what if" she'd said something controversial and attack her for that (275)
(Daily Kos) Amusing New York Governor David Paterson drops what is sure to be the best line of the week about McCain: "If he's the answer, then the question must be ridiculous." (106)
(Newsday) Scary Dmitri Medvedev: "We are not afraid of anything, including the prospect of a Cold War" (97)
(The Atlantic) Interesting In an effort to keep gay people out, Massachusetts put up a ballot measure which would prevent anyone who doesn't live in the state from getting married there (68)
(Guardian.com) Obvious Much like Hillary heading into Super Tuesday, Democrats thought Denver would be a celebration on the way to a coronation. It ain't turning out tht way (121)
(colorado repubs) Stupid DNC vehicles are being filled at city government filling stations, thus avoiding the 40 cent a gallon gas tax. That's a lot of change we can believe in (90)
(AP) Obvious GOP platform to include amending US Constitution to ban abortion, gay marriage, liberals, canine/feline cohabitation (270)
(USA Today) Amusing Daily Show correspondents are having trouble conducting interviews at DNC because fans keep swarming around them (146)
(MSNBC) Spiffy Discussion thread for Democratic National Convention night II: Hillary's Swan Song (1520)
(CNN) Amusing Polls show the presidential race in *battleground* states may, in fact, be close. It's not news, it's CNN (31)
(Denver Post) Dumbass Colorado GOP chief Dick Wadhams apparently never read 1984. "Just consider this the Ministry of Truth" he proudly tells reporters as he leads them on a tour of the Republican "war room " in Denver (133)
(Red State) Obvious Joe Biden is the only Senator who gets a salary teaching part-time. And it didn't go down when he halved his workload. And his son is the lobbyist who gets grants for the University. Par for the course on the Hope and Change Express (152)
(TwinCities.com) Cool Ron Paul's wife to be discharged from hospital. Paul objects on grounds that nowhere in the Constitution is hospital release addressed (183)
(Politico) Stupid McCain breaks out the 3 AM ad again, states that he can't nuke Russia at that hour because he'll be asleep whereas Hussein Obama will be awake and will start WWIII because he's a terrorist or something (168)
(Reuters) Followup "Armed men were never a threat", said the U.S. Attorney. Adding, "Everyone knows The Obama is impervious to bullets" (235)
(Some Guy) Obvious Karl Rove didn't think Michelle Obama showed enough love for America in her speech, or deleted enough emails, fired enough attorneys, or outed enough CIA agents (229)
(Some Guy) Interesting Biden's 1988 law review article on constitutional war powers. No word on what bits are stolen from others (45)
(Ft. Collins Now) Stupid Michelle Malkin and a bunch of truthers get into an argument on the streets of Denver. And nobody called in an airstrike (459)
(Wordpress) Followup This just in: you can't trade hogs for sex in KY any more (142)
(MSNBC) Dumbass "I believe in natural gas as a clean, cheap alternative to fossil fuels." Natural gas = fossil fuel. Don't worry though, it isn't like the speaker of the House needs to understand energy issues (312)
(WorldNetDaily) Interesting Bad news for Obama: According to a recently released WND poll, the majority of voters are bigots who want to provide financial assistance to their imaginary half-brothers in Kenya and stop gang members from joining gangs (299)
(Orlando Sentinel) Interesting McCain leads Obama by four percent in Florida, thanks in large part to his ads saying Obama wants to tax 4:00 p.m. early-bird dinner specials at Sizzler (420)
(Rocky Mountain News) Interesting Democrats hire Goo Goo Dolls to play for top fundraisers so that they can station someone at the exit to demand more donations from those fleeing in terror and disgust (33)
(Gallup) Interesting Obama and McCain all tied up. Biden Bump now coined as an oxymoron (193)
(Reason Magazine) Obvious "The Democratic Party has just blown almost one-quarter of its convention on some of the most tepid personal-trivia testimonials and no-really-they-watched-Brady-Bunch crapola I have heard since my last Amway convention" (709)
(Some Guy) Amusing Last week, McCain didn't know how many houses he owns. This week, Obama didn't know what city he was in (455)
(CNN) Obvious North Korea rolls on floor kicking and screaming, threatening to restore nuclear plants because the U.S. hasn't removed it from terrorist list (31)
(Guardian.com) Obvious "The most popular recent American president is Bill Clinton. That is the warning for America. Al-Qaida's planning for 9/11 didn't start when the Supreme Court installed George Bush. It began when Clinton was still in office" (231)
(Daily Kos) Interesting Obama calls for a boycott of the media. All of it (192)
(AP) Interesting Cindy McCain dispatched to Georgia to assess damage, abscond with cookie recipes (48)
(Wonkette) Hero Longtime CBS anchorman Bob Schieffer admits to getting f***ked up and banging out one of his kids in a hotel room at the 1968 Democratic Convention (22)
(Salon) Interesting Chris Matthews calls Hillary's PUMAs "angry, broom-riding succubi." And that's when he's playing nice (40)
(YouTube) Cool If you want proof Obama is no John Kerry, just look at his latest McCain ass-kicking attack ad (185)
(ABC News) Obvious Jay Leno: "How many houses do you have?" John McCain: "I spent 5.5 years in a prison cell" (172)
(The Atlantic) Interesting Why a McCain-Romney ticket would be political suicide for McCain (91)
(Daily Kos) Amusing In the middle of a Joe Scarborough rant on national TV, Keith Olbermann comes in from offscreen and smacks him down. With video of Scarborough's shocked face (177)
(Times Call) Sappy Biggest story from DNC's first night: Sasha Obama is cuter than Hello Kitty having a tea party with Stephanie from Lazy Town with two kitty cats on Unicorn Day (183)
(Boston Herald) Amusing Planned Parenthood distributes "PROTECT YOURSELF FROM JOHN MCCAIN" condoms at convention (46)

Mon August 25, 2008
(Reuters) Obvious It looks like Russia's definition of "withdrawing" from Georgia is simply saying the place where they have their troops is no longer part of Georgia (84)
(SeattlePI) Obvious After years of being solidly Republican, Colorado is now a tossup partially because the state is suffering from an infestation of Californians (109)
(Google) Obvious Obama's convention message: "I'm like you." (well, except that I'm Black, Harvard-educated, and rich) (533)
(MSNBC) Asinine Yesterday on Meet the Press, Tom Brokaw asked Nancy Pelosi about her 14% approval rating and her failure to end the war in Iraq. Fark.com: Her response was to laugh and blame Bush (368)
(ABC News) Obvious Gourmet food, top-shelf liquor and private lavish parties: Is is a Hollywood premier? NFL skybox? Nope. It's your nation's lobbyists hard at it at the DNC (71)
(CBS 4 Denver) Scary Police in Denver investigate possible plot to kill Obama (288)
(Salon) Obvious AT&T thanks the Blue Dog Democrats with a lavish party, how is that "Change" working out? (113)
(Bad Attitudes) Unlikely Nancy Pelosi, daughter of a "prominent Maryland political family," and with 22 years in Congress is asked if she is a Washington insider. "Oh, absolutely not. No." (39)
(LA Times) Amusing Joe Biden's net worth: $59,000 to $366,000. Fails at making money off American politics. Can we trust him? (386)
(CNN) Hero Jon Stewart continues to show how awesome he is, rips media a new one (286)
(Wall Street Journal) Dumbass Daddy Yankee endorses John McCain. Yes, the Daddy Yankee that ends his song "Gangsta Zone" by saying "conquer the United States" in Spanish (215)
(Fox News) Obvious John Edwards was tagging his baby's mama earlier than he admitted (70)
(CNN) Cool DNC theme will be "One Nation", unclear whether Groove to be involved (91)
(CNN) Asinine McCain using Clinton's words to attack Obama. Wow, who would have ever though her calling John McCain more experienced than Obama would come back to bite the party in the ass? (164)
(AP) Fail In an effort to attract Bush's "value voters", Democrats begin convention with religious service including Jews, Muslims, and Catholics (211)
(USA Today) Interesting Hillary Clinton's supporters are so annoyed that only 47 percent of them say they will definitely vote for Obama. The other 53 percent are eating Ben & Jerry's and crying on the sofa (179)
(The Raw Story) Dumbass Vice President Cheney linked to Sen. Ted Stevens corrupt effort to lay some tubes across Alaska (50)
(Politico) Obvious The definitive story of how Hillary got her ass kicked (63)
(WebProNews) Interesting According to "in-depth analysis of the search engine reputation" of presidential candidates, Biden had lowest rating. Your mom, Rick Astley, Serious Cat, Cthulhu, Peter Pan fairy make up top 5 (29)
(Wall Street Journal) Obvious Clinton associates negotiating on her behalf act like "Japanese soldiers in the South Pacific still fighting after the war is over. banzai (33)
(Huffington Post) Spiffy Opening line-up includes Nancy Pelosi, Sen. Claire McCaskill, Barack Obama's sister, Michelle Obama's brother, Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr., President of NARAL, and the Mayor of Denver. Today's official Democratic Convention thread (530)
(WorldNetDaily) Dumbass In a sane world, you would be a washed-up has-been, but you've had the luck of becoming a cult icon for the younger generation. What do you do next? If you're Chuck Norris, you pen an editorial against lowering the drinking age (73)
(Washington Post) Amusing Columnist once wrote piece on Biden's gaffe prone verbosity; Fark: Biden called writer, got answering machine, and his message was so long it got cut off (98)
(AP) Spiffy Zombie Ted Kennedy to make appearance at DNC, go hungry (109)
(Yahoo) Asinine Remember that college prof in Colorado who called 9/11 victims "little Eichmanns"? Turns out his hobby is screaming at Fox news reporters (114)
(New York Sun) Obvious Hotel key cards made of "sustainably-harvested wood" are great for the environment, bad for unlocking doors (98)
(WorldNetDaily) Interesting Guess who Biden wanted on the Democratic presidential ticket four years ago? You guessed it: Frank Stallone (139)
(9 News) Amusing FoxNews box at DNC convention hall flooded by "faulty sprinkler system" *wink* (531)
(Newsweek) Obvious Politics in America involves a lot of childish name-calling so as to distract voters from thinking about substantive issues? What you say? (219)
(Reuters) Scary Not to say that our relationship with Pakistan is deteriorating, but an angry mob just torched a shipment of US APCs bound for Afghanistan (67)
(Yahoo) Followup Why wasn't Hillary vetted as a VP Pick? Because she refused to cooperate with Obama's people without assurances she was on the short list (166)
(USA Today) Obvious Two states, Colorado and Nebraska, will have a referendum on equal pay for equal work -- which sounds so much better than a "ban on affirmative action" (294)
(Politico) Unlikely McCain's biggest fan? Joe Biden (139)
(Some Guy) Asinine For some strange reason, John McCain is upset that Madonna puts him in the same category as Adolf Hitler (118)
(BBC) Asinine Want to win that vote? Just arrest just enough of the opposition to ensure your majority. For god's sake no-one let Bush see this (24)
(St. Petersburg Times) Florida Shunned Florida delegates get front-row seats for Democratic National Convention. "Half the fun of breaking up is making up" (22)
(Yahoo) Unlikely Obama plans on using the Secret Service to guard his daughters' chastity. Bush twins snicker, pop open another tall one (28)
(Denver Post) Asinine And the "First to Get Arrested by Overzealous Cops at the DNC" award goes to some hunter from Wyoming who tried to check in to his hotel, where Mrs. Pelosi is also staying, with his cased hunting rifles (407)
(Think Progress) Unlikely John McCain's campaign thinks they have "underused the POW element" of their candidate. Wait...John McCain was a POW? (125)
(Guardian.com) Interesting If you planned to protest the Democratic convention by tossing frisbees, wearing wheelie shoes or flinging excrement at cops, Denver has some bad news for you (14)
(Washington Post) Interesting Eight years ago he tried to go to the convention. Hertz declined his credit card. He couldn't get a floor pass. Obama watched it from a Jumbotron outside the arena (95)
(Guardian.com) Sad Margaret Thatcher following Ronald Reagan's way of thinking literally (86)
(Some Guy) Dumbass Utah State senator is rude to a pizza delivery girl that had a little known blog until now (205)

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