• George Allen’s apology to S.R. Sidarth not actually “from his heart,” instead “from his poll results.” [Hotline On Call]

• Rush Limbaugh uses very accurate stereotype based handicapping system to predict winner of the new Survivor season. [TBogg]
• Bill O’Reilly: “at any volume, he’s noise.” [Raw Story]
• Liberals to become extinct as Conservatives “outbreed” them. [Echidne of the Snakes]
• Jeff Jarvis admits his blog doesn’t get him laid. [BuzzMachine]
• President of Kazakhstan fights “Anti-Borat hard-liners” within his administration. [New York Magazine]
• “Presidential funny bone” tickled by watching new aides try to resist the gas face. [Boston Herald]

• “Three leading gay rights groups will spend $250,000 on ads promoting gay marriage. I’m a staunch supporter of gay marriage, but I think that this money could be better spent…like, oh, say promoting the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) which would ban anti-gay job discrimination.” [Feministing]

• “Singapore just announced a doubling of its R&D budget, to $8.2 billion over the next five years, ‘making it a regional research hub, particularly in stem cells.’ Says a Singapore-based scientist who roams the globe recruiting researchers, ‘I go to the U.S., and I tell those scientists, Come to Singapore and finish your work.’” [MoJo]
• Video of Ali G style reporter hitting on “fag-hater” Fred Phelpsian. The reporter gets a nice rise from anti-gay protesters: “You’re a fag-assed pervert, step off!”
  [Stop The ACLU]

• In a nutshell, this is what’s wrong with The Huffington Post: “Help! I’m A Global Warming Refugee on Melrose. OK, I guess ‘refugee’ is laying it on a bit thick. I’m sitting in a trendy, air conditioned coffee shop on Melrose Avenue in LA, sipping an icy latte, surrounded by your tired, your poor, your tattooed screenwriters and slackers and pretty people yearning to breathe cool.” [HuffPo]

• Santorum: “Science leads you where it leads you.” Also the heart wants what it wants. Sometimes that’s a dog. No, seriously: Rick comes out against “intelligent design” (magic). [Beaver County Times (no shit), via Pandagon]
• Oh, God: Please don’t make me give up Target. So they are all “Fuck you bitch about your little unprotected pregnancy sex accident” — they have really great housewares. Fuck. Fry’s man, tho? I will never. Shop. There. Again. [Savage Love (last item)]
• Bush tonight: “Reasonable people can disagree about the conduct of the war –­ but it is irresponsible for Democrats to now claim that we misled them and the American people.” Translation: You can disagree except when you do. [Michelle Malkin]
• Kazakhstan totally pissed about Ali G. [Reuters]
• “If you’re going to be the lead columnist for the business section of a major American newspaper, a certain amount of Bentonville ball-lickery is part of the package.” [TMFTML]