Well it’s fall. Summer was fun, but, hey, it’s gone, and now it’s fall. Fall brings pretty leaves, perhaps a political affair (nesting occurs more during these months), maybe a public option, and who knows what else! And for you, there is so much fun to be had in fall. MORE »

Did you see the movie Signs, where, uh, Jack Bauer or whatever was the alien preacher and destroyed Jesus’ corn fields and then was killed by water? Well it was a weird movie and now look at this: a corn field in Ohio has been completely destroyed with a likeness of this idiot, Palin. A maze. It took “an artist from Idaho at least eight hours to mow down stalks for the maze.” Repugnant. [AP, "The Corn Maze"]

It’s a hallowed Autumn tradition to take the kids to the Corn Maze, but there’s extra fun in store for youngsters at Richland, Michigan’s Gulf Meadows Farms this year, because they’ve based their 2007 Corn Maze design on Gerald Ford’s head. Jerry Ford, of course, was our greatest president and he pardoned Nixon and covered up JFK’s assassination and almost got himself assassinated, twice in 17 days, in California, and bravely fought inflation and was from Michigan.

Gulf Meadows Farms Corn Maze

If you woke up today all excited for no apparent reason, it’s obvious that you’ve got a bad case of Vilsack Fever. That’s right, ladies: Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack is running for president!

He’s the first of approximately 270 Democrats to officially announce his sure-shot bid for the White House. For the few laggards who haven’t read his best-selling autobiography, we’ll give you the lowdown … after the jump.

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• “You: Girl with ridiculously short white skirt sitting on top of another guy having sex in the corner of the front room.” The front room of Rumors last night. [Craigslist]
• George Allen “once put a severed deer’s head in somebody’s mailbox. Admittedly, it’s not quite as bad as the scene in The Godfather….” The Godfather is fictional. [T&A]
• Virgin, straight-edge Trekkie just needs a little more coaxing and she’ll “give it up.” [Golden Silence]
• WSC and Blue Cross sell with blow jobs. It makes sense — join a gym, get more blowjobs. You see where this is going. [Sarcastic and Cynical]
• I know, right? People who haven’t been on the news are so provincial. [K Street Blues]
• Don’t eat corn before a colonoscopy. [Lumpyhead]