* “I was ready to prove my comic genius, the stars were simply aligned. Two glasses of sangria later, the time was right…” [Average Jane]
* DiCaprio, Crowe set fire to the Eastern Market, Metro watches. [BrightestYoungThings]
* “Oh yes, you’re huge. So fucking round. I’ve seen beach balls with more sex appeal.” [Roissy In DC]
* “This has turned into an exciting game, now. And that’s too bad, because serious playoff-bound teams aren’t going to end up in close games with the Dolphins.” [DCeiver]
* Save the restaurants, save the world. [Metrocurean]

Way back in the late 1980s, in the wonderful days before blogs existed, idiots were forced to attend tapings of a daytime teevee show called “Morton Downey Jr.” so they could yell about things they didn’t understand — and Ron Paul was pissing them off then, too.

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Apparently Bill O’Reilly has been going on about Daily Kos lately, because he’s a good three years behind everyone else on the internet. Using the typical marginalizing strategy of conflating the site with its craziest commenters, O’Reilly has compared the site to the Klan and the Nazi party — he even got JetBlue to withdraw sponsorship of Kos’ little convention! Naturally, the “Kossacks” are responding by proving conclusively that they are just as fucking crazy as the idiot tv guy says they are. MORE »

by Joe Klein
TIME

I posted something a politician said on Swampland, the political blog at Time.com, along with my opinion about presidential politics.

The next day, I was blasted by a number of left-wing bloggers: Klein screwed up! On Eschaton, a blog that specializes in media bashing, I was given the coveted “Wanker of the Day” award. I got hammered by bloggers and Swampland commenters for “stalking” a politician into an apology and for being a “water boy for the right wing” and many other riffs unfit to print.

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Bush’s very last loyalist supporters are having a very public breakup with the White House over the illegal-immigrant amnesty thing, diplomacy with Iran and, uhm, “media leaks that cripple our national security.” Over at the popular website “Little Green Footballs,” folks are so pissed off that they’ve briefly paused their brave hunt for Islamo-Fascists on the Internets to bitch about that turncoat Dubya.

“This makes me want to puke,” wrote some commenter. “President Bush seems to have just given up. Well, this rash act seems to make the immigration problem look somehow smaller..damn it. Was Condi involved? Pelousy?”

Pelousy? WTF? Let’s all laugh together, after the jump.

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* Republican faithful watching Fred Thompson’s messiah-mobile for signs of his cand-ascendancy. [The Carpetbagger Report]
* Bill Richardson knows you don’t get high on your own supply — ’til later on at night. [Radosh]
* Sam Brownback wasn’t the only person at the Republican debate with a beard. [Political Wire]
* Imagining Al Qaeda attempting to recruit black dudes is more hilarious than anything Dave Chapelle has done. [WND]
* Al Gore: hot no more. [Radar]
* Crazy right-wing blogger threatens online reputations of crazy right-wing senators. [Right Wing News]
* Because if you don’t kill all the illegals, you’re letting them off too easy. [The Corner]

* Paul and Shaha rock each other’s worlds like a bomb-belt in a crowded market. [Liberal Avenger]
* Republican bloggers “declare war on the Republican Leadership of the United States House of Representatives.” [Red State]
* Hilary is stealing all Barry’s best zingers. And by zingers we mean pointless clichés. [Election Central]
* Sam Brownback ends up in tears when his memorized sports analogy backfires. Stick to the show tune metaphors, Sam. [AP]
* Navy still thinks Muslim pilot is dangerous, but will let him be a wingman anytime. [Blackfive]
* White dudes run shit, jam up your teevee on Sundays talking about it. [Media Matters]

It’s all Andrew Sullivan all the time! Well, not really. But rastafarian blogger Matthew Yglesias is moving to the Atlantic Monthly website and leaving This American Life or wherever he used to work. MORE »

Congratulations to Andrew Sullivan, who’s set a date to wed his long-time partner Aaron Tone. While the New York Observer doesn’t actually know Mr. Tone’s name (it was written as Eric and subsequently corrected), Diner-frequenting Washingtonians have come to know the amiable, large-necked pundit’s partner well over the two years they’ve been living together. MORE »

Patriotic mouth-breathers have finally figured out a new way to pretend to kill Muslims that’s even creepier than blogging. Increasingly despondent over the lack of bloody terrorist attacks on big U.S. cities they’ve seen on teevee, suburban freedom fighters are going to find all the mosques and falafel stands in America and figure out where on a map these establishments are located!

Watch out, Islamic Nazi Fascists! Those losers hanging around your neighborhood day-care centers aren’t simple pedophiles — they’re secret soldiers. Behold the Afterbirth of a Nation, after the jump.

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Seven long years after the blog craze began, otherwise-useless bloggers have finally had an effect on an election: They’ve kept shiny-haired squeaky-voiced oddity Sanjaya Malakar on the hit karaoke show American Idol, despite his inability to carry a tune. MORE »