• ROBERT McNAMARA IS DEAD: Jesus, anybody else feel like dying in the next week or two? Because now is clearly the time to do it! Robert McNamara prosecuted America’s hopeless adventure in Vietnam on behalf of Presidents Kennedy and Johnson; he also did many other things, which nobody remembers on account of the war. [Washington Post]

• OF COURSE HER NAME IS ‘BETTY BROWN’: “The Texas Democratic Party demanded an apology Wednesday from state Rep. Betty Brown, R-Terrell for suggesting Asian-descent voters should adopt names that are ‘easier for Americans to deal with.’” Soon everybody in Terrell will have comically implausible names like “Sara Smith.” [Houston Chronicle]

This is just weird. The Republican National Committee has started a “grassroots” Web site that, much like our beloved Rebuild the Party, wants people to think about how Republicans might make themselves a little less fucked. Here is an idea! If you are interested in “moving forward” and “building our future,” do not make a video that is all about the PAST. It’s like saying, “Help us build an intergalactic space travel machine and colonize Mars!” and recruiting with a video of two cavemen smearing poo into each other’s hair. [RNC: Republican For A Reason]

Well, hell. This Sebelius gal won’t be Obama’s veep because she has a long face; Chuck Hagel won’t work because he’s a Republican; and Joe Biden won’t because … oh no wait maybe Joe Biden would work! Yeah, he’s got an okay face for it, and hair plugs, and “foreign” experience. But you know who would RULE? The fat one who made the slide show about climate change. MORE »

The Post has detailed plans for three wacky parties. you could throw this weekend. Let’s take a look at them, shall we?

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Tomas “The Tanc Engine” Tancredo is taking Iowa by storm as hicks across our nation’s second-boringest state thrill to his message of banning brown people once and for all. To help drum up the natives even more, “Tanc and Tonic” is holding an ol’ fashioned child exploitation contest. MORE »

Julia Allison and Henry Kissinger, the two poles of Washington reprehensibility (even though they both actually live in New York — it’s a crazy night, folks). — Photo courtesy HuffPo

Was the White House Correspondents’ Dinner the worst party we’ve ever gone to? No, probably not — we’ve gone to more than one Capitol File party, after all. But if we’d spent our Saturday night staying home, ordering a pizza, getting wasted, and watching Arrested Development episodes, would we have had a better time? Yes. And more material, probably.

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The New York Sun proves today that it is demonstrably crazier than any paper DC has to offer — man up, Wash Times — with one brilliant, utterly insane house editorial. The topic, as it will be in every editorial you read for the next 18 months, is the 2008 presidential race. Their exciting and bold idea? MORE »

Nancy Pelosi is in Syria supporting terror and worshiping John the Baptist’s severed head. MORE »

Sandy Berger deserves a medal just for allowing this lede to exist: MORE »

This may be the single worst interactive feature we’ve ever seen on a high-profile Politician’s website. It’s from Jim Webb’s “Born Fighting” PAC, and it seems to be designed for filthy jokes, libel, and anonymous insults — all of which are displayed, continuously updated, on the front page of the website. MORE »