Wonkette
- North Korea continues to freak out its neighbors with its insistence on conducting more nuclear tests. [BBC News]
- The California Supreme Court will decide today whether Proposition 8 is legal or not. Most Prop 8 opponents believe the court will uphold it, so they in turn will propose yet another ballot initiative dealy in 2010. [Los Angeles Times]
- Twitter is working on some television deal, in order to become even more irritating to even more people. [Variety]
- Swine flu continued to kill people this weekend, mostly those with “other” or “chronic” medical conditions. [AP]
- President Obama has finally produced a nominee to head NASA, so they can stop bitching. [Los Angeles Times]
- Nevadans hate Harry Reid with such a firey hot passion that even enlisting the help of our very popular president the senator cannot sell out a 4,000-person fundraiser. [Las Vegas Review-Journal]
I am beginning to look forward to the Twitter IPO. Sooner or later it will happen and it will empty the pockets of a large number of twitterrattis who think its the biggest thing since Pets.com or Boo.com, etc. And those are likely to be people I personally hate.
After all, the GOP like to think they ‘OWN’ Twitter.
North Korea is like that retarded kid in your neighborhood that always seemed to have an ample supply of M-80s and Cherry Bombs. You just knew he was eventually going to take out a few garbage cans, toilets and a couple of his own fingers.
It’s about time you people came back to work - we had to look at that stupid Peggy Noonan graphic for THREE FUCKING DAYS. Do you have any idea how much pain that causes? You could’ve at least made the intern come in and change it.
Sadistic perverts.
Barry’s decided to troll the GOP and The New Republic by appointing Sonia Sotomayor to SCOTUS, per TPM.
I’d gladly trade Harry Reid on Tuesday for a hamburger today. Though I’d expect to have to throw in the price of the ‘burger to complete the deal.
Also seriously, I’d gladly give Reid’s place in the Senate to a republican or paultard in exchange for a Dem pickup elsewhere & a new majority leader. Also.
It seems weird to be cheering for a Republican in a Senate race; but since it doesn’t look like the Dems are going to dump him on their own, it would be great to see him gone so that they could (hopefully) put someone in whose strategy would be something other than continually kissing Republican ass.
And what the fuck happened to Kim Jong-Ill? Did Hans Brix just totally give up on the guy? Give me TypoDong or give me death, FAG!
JMP: Or pissing his pants & crying every time a repub said “911″ or “terrorist.”
hobospacejunkie: I would think losing Reid without picking up another Democrat elsewhere would be worth it on its own. But the Democrats in the Senate seem to have been on a bad streak on its leaders for a while now.
hobospacejunkie: Kim Jong Il is ill. The nuke is likely his way of going out with a big bang. Meh. That and a gift to Japanese hawks who now have every reason to remilitarize.
A brief word about the Bette Midler ad on that Las Vegas paper site. 1. Something terrible has happened to her right shoulder, and it is now vibrating dangerously; 2. She has that whole “can’t see my eyes anymore” smile a la Ellen Barkin and Renee Zellweger. What is that? How does it happen? Does it interfere with her ability to walk up stairs or clean her stretch of highway?
Gibbons vs. Reid would make the best Senate race in history. Gibbons is certifiably insane and while Reid is a milksop, he can run a vicious campaign. A Gibbons win means we get another crazy person to laugh at in Washington and if Gibbons bloodies Reid at all, he likely can’t hold on to his post as Majority Leader. It’s a win-win for the nation. Oh, sure, the people of Nevada would lose, but fuck them for electing these idiots in the first place.
CockedAle: Just so long as they don’t get any ideas about more Korean comfort women.
CockedAle: Oh god, they’ve wanted to do that so fucking badly for all these decades. And the hawks won’t stop there, either. After they rearm: “All right, you guys, I know we promised. No more imperialism and conquest, that was the deal. But really, is anyone going to give a shit if we just conquer the fuck out of the Korean peninsula? And maybe the Philippines too?”
And once you get their bureaucracy rolling on something, it’s basically impossible to stop. They got on a construction kick, and now they rebuild Kyoto like every day. What would that government do with warfare? Would it be like Andrew Jackson in 1812? I don’t even know.
Perhaps Wonkette could interpret Richard Cohen’s column. Reading between the lines, it sounds like he’s saying he had an affair with Elizabeth Edwards and fathered Octomom’s babies, and now they won’t leave him alone. So to get away from them, he wants to be sent to Pakistan. I could get behind that.
Holy shit; I graduated high school with the new NASA nominee’s son.
Supreme Court nominee? NASA nominee? Coincidence? In my line of work, we don’t believe in coincidences. Obama is clearly planning to send all Mexicans to space.
Korean Nukes: me no rikey!
fiery
California still has money to hold a vote?
“We’ve found a compelling way to bring the immediacy of Twitter to life on TV,” Liebman said.
Now we’ll get to see the people ACTUALLY DEFECATE before Twatting about it.
I figure the North Korea threat will solve itself when the country is overrun by giant, radioactive grasshoppers. The survivors can eat said grasshoppers, which will solve the famine!
Only Nixon could go to China. Conversely, only Obama could get away with carpet-bombing North Korea. Just sayin’.
Forget about re-arming, how about the Japanese stone cold build their own nukes, as a “deterrent?” That would make all six parties happy, what could possibly go wrong?
Mahousu: “I never knew what to make of him [Edwards]. A three-dollar bill, I always suspected.”
Did R.C. really just say that?
North Korea is getting so freaky that for once the US might not have to be the bully to beat some sense into them. Go, China!
norbizness: Cokie Roberts owns my building! [Hat tip to Zippy the Pinhead]
More exciting than exploring Katie Courics anal polyps, it’s TWITTERVISION!!1! Yeah, I can’t see twitter tv getting beyond the ideas phase. Then again, TMZ, 2 and a half Men and reality television are all still going strong, so maybe there is a market out there, so maybe there’s a big untapped twatter market just waiting to be penetrated.
RabidHamster: Fuck me. Pretend I was awake and sober and ignore the “so maybe there is a market out there” in my last post. Fuckfuckfuck.
Harry Reid: me no rikey!
SmutBoffin: “I never knew what to make of him [Edwards]. A three-dollar bill, I always suspected.”
Did R.C. really just say that?
Hey, even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
The Twitter show will be “putting ordinary people on the trail of celebrities in a revolutionary competitive format.” Isn’t that called stalking?
Just an hour of scrolling Larry King’s tweets would be more like it!
OH NOES:
LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) — Ashton Kutcher — Twitter’s top tweeter — warned he may pull the plug on his tweeting if the micro-blogging service partners on a reality TV show.
chascates: Wow,Asston Krutcher is still alive. Who knew?