Wonkette
- This global warming has gotten so bad that ships can now pass through the “Northwest Passage,” which didn’t even previously exist except on advanced levels of the Oregon Trail. [Matthew Yglesias]
- Stately, plump Bill Richardson will be Obama’s new Commerce Secretary! [Politico]
- Joe Biden complains to Sarah Palin that no one pays attention to him anymore. It is literally impossible to overstate how much she empathizes with him. [CNN Political Ticker]
- Nota Bene: Recovering British person Christopher Hitchens prefers the name “Bombay” to “Mumbai.” [The Corner]
- Al Franken has won his latest battle with Minnesota, as more absentee ballots are going to be counted and there’s nothing Norm Coleman can do about it. Except counter-sue. [HuffPost]
I wish Bill had gotten the SOS nod instead of Hillary, but, alas, no. Still glad to see he’s in the Cabinet. That early endorsement ought to be worth something, after all.
Ay yi yi yi yiiiii! We can get this economy rolling again with an old fashioned taco eating contest!
Richardson would have been SUCH a better SecState. Maybe at least this keeps him in line for when Clinton inevitably has to be fired after starting WW III.
A “Ulysses” reference? Be still, my heart!
Juli wins the Wonkette Elitist of the Week award for the James Joyce reference.
I agree with Hitch. Bombay Sapphire Gin sounds better than Mumbai Sapphire Gin.
Obama is raiding Western states of their governors! Who’s next, AAhhhnaud? (he may be a repub, but he is married to a Kennedy!)
Soon, the Western US will be void of gubernatorial leadership, and he will then sell back lands ceded to the US under the treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo in 1848 and sell Alaska back to the Russians (Sarah P can annouy the shit out of them for a change).
It is how Obama plans to balance the budget, down-sizing the US and selling off assets. It works when companies try to avoid bankruptcy, it might work for the US.
Oregon trail- the educational geography game my kids played?!?!? I am old.
If Coleman’s gonna lose, who gets his boyfriends apartment in DC?
AZW - this has often occured to me. Companies are constantly selling pieces off with no shame. Why not countries?
I’m still pissed about the whole “Istanbul not Constantinople” affair.
Nooooooooooooooo! Random wingnut theory tells us that the Northwest Passage didn’t get bigger, but ships got skinnier.
Leave to drunken imperialist fucks like Hitchens and the Corner to rub salt in India’s wound after a terrorist attack. Assholes.
I’m so embarassed. I didn’t get the James Joyce reference. :-\
Et introibo ad altare Dei
finallyhappy: Educational.. yup, that is where Sarah Palin learned her hunting skills killing off buffalo by the ton, only to find you could only carry back a few hundred pounds.
It was also one of the few games where if you were a banker you were toast!
“Al Franken has won his latest battle with Minnesota”
so the Saxby vs Martin threat becomes more dire (what with the plans to seize all the guns and enact the radical Obama agenda)
Yep, bad shit happens when countries go and change names, I mean, look at Siam…
freakishlystrong: That shit with Siam is totally Yul Brynner’s fault.
Christopher Hitchens is a tool. By the way, I read Kathryn Lopez’ defense of Saxby Chambliss while I was checking out the Hitchens post. Shameless. That “urban legend” shit doesn’t work anymore. The intertubes let us look this stuff up.
Damn Cannucks think just because the Northwest Passage is in their internal waters that they ought to have some sort of rights over it. Next they will be saying their control of 1/3 of the world’s supply of fresh water is their right because it is their resources too.
This is the sort of uppity ‘tude you get when you let Michal J. Fox in and don’t demand that Brendan Fraser pick a side.
Ah for the days when the VP was basically a hat-stand or coat rack or somesuch. “Here, hold this.”
So, B.R. has chosen to end his political career as commerce secretary. That neatly wraps up the loose ends.
Heywood Floyd: So’s they might be giants
Chicagobama: “A “Ulysses” reference? Be still, my heart!” yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes
I have to agree with lushy Hitch on this one: “Mumbai” sounds like a mumbled farewell by a half-awake one-night stand who can’t be bothered to get up and let you out.
You have died of dysentery.
Bah, Bill would’ve made a better SecState, but at least he’s in the Cabinet.
You’ve eaten too many hobo beans and have died from dysentery
John McCain wants to change the name of Mumbai to “Bomb-Bomb-Bomb, Bomb-Bomb-Bombay.”
In an ironic note, Mumbai might be able to thank these terrorist attacks for finally popularizing that name over Bombay.
(Double irony: the spell-check function on my computer has placed a red “U R RONG” line under Mumbai, but not Bombay…)
Five yrs. ago I was in Sarahland and a naturalist explained how the Northwest Passage was opening up.
All I could think of was Spencer Tracy in buckskin like in that movie.
Anyway it is not new news and may have some positive effects. I hate to say that with global warming hysteria abroad in the land.
he’s the new president of shopping!
Joe Biden complains to Sarah Palin that no one pays attention to him anymore.
Who was paying attention to him before?
Shmucky DeFukhed: +1
Chicagobama: Yours and mine both! I thought my husband and I were the only people to quote from the Good Book (it was, after all, how I landed him). Good thing I didn’t meet Ms. Weiner first; the giggles her last name induces in me might have put a future marriage asunder.