Wonkette
- Barack Obama has assembled two distinct types of leaders in his cabinet: venerable party hacks, and a bunch of nobodies. [Wall Street Journal]
- Bankruptcy might sound like a good option for GM and Chrysler, but it has its drawbacks. [Los Angeles Times]
- Or maybe the White House will step in with loans? George Bush will tell all at 9 AM today, so stay tuned. [Bloomberg]
- The outgoing and incoming Secretary of Defense, Robert Gates, has asked his people to start working on plans for shutting down Guantanamo Bay. [CNN]
- News flash, Robert Mugabe still being a dick. [BBC News]
- The six-month ceasefire between Israel and Hamas ended in Gaza, but so far violence has been kept to a minimum. Expect it to escalate before another truce is declared. [New York Times]
- Famous porn star “Deep Throat,” who brought down Nixon by molesting Robert Redford in garages, is dead at the age of 95. [New York Times]
FTW! hahaha Not the dead part, but the rest of it lolz.
Add lasers and today will be my kind of movie.
As someone who judges cabinet picks solely by ethnic and geographical makeup, I am disappointed that President-Elect Obama has not appointed any German-Swedish males from Southeastern Pennsylvania. I now regret not voting for the old guy and the hottie.
[what's a new flash?]
Tomb of the Unknown Snitcher
Not a lot of people know this, but it was from All the President’s Men that the expression “Felt up” was derived. When Mr. Felt was exposed as Deep Throat a couple of years ago, the etymology of that expression suddenly made sense.
TJBeck: [what's a new flash?]
We’re talking about porn here, so put two and two together.
I notice that the Obama administration is also devoid of any Polish/WASP males from western Pennsylvania, too, which makes me feel alienated from this cabinet which quite clearly does not look like America.
TJBeck: A “new flash” is obviously the singular form of the more pedestrian “news flash.”
Sara K. Smith: Much thank for the explanation.
I thought I’d go to Fresno just to see My Friend
but my damn Studebaker keeps on breaking down again.
If Mugabe keeps at this pace, he could break all of Mobutu’s records.
I’ll be hiding in Paraguay
I’m a desperate man
Money, cars, and fighting
The shit has hit the fan
magic titty: Some of them but I think that Mobutu Sese Seko is secure with the title of Chief Kleptocrat for Life. In Mugabe’s defense, there was a lot more to steal–or at least a lot more portable stuff to steal–in Zaire than Zimbabwe.
donner_froh: True dat - but if you’re a dictator who isn’t embezzling funds and ruining the lives of your own people, your resume gets thin quickly.
Don’t you people read the Anchorage Daily News?
The death of deep throat? Say it ain’t so Joe. First Linda Lovelace kicks it, now Mark Felt? There’s a lot of blowing still to be done. Who’s going to…erm…fill the vacuum, as it were?
BTW, has it ever bothered anybody else that there is an inherent logical inconsistency to the premise that having a clitoris in one’s throat requires deep penetration by a penis, or penis-shaped object, to such an extent that the gag reflex has to be trained to accomodate such?
Hmm…didn’t think so.
i have a sad.
Ohhh noes!
Deepthroat is dead!
It seem like just yersterday that she was hammered on cheap wine and looking for a “ride” home!
Bah-Chikka-wa-waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!