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• Su Lin? Straight up OWNED. Butterstick? Currently keeping scientists busy recalibrating all known measures of cuteness. MORE »

• Kathleen Parker recalls a high school book report and undergoes a severe mental paroxysm during which she realizes that if it weren’t for narcissists like her, bloggers would have piloted the planet into the sun by now. MORE »

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Anytime you get a die-hard advocate of intelligent design on camera, you’re bound to hear something that makes your brain so deeply upset that it practically cries out for a bubble bath and a long nap. But the length and breadth and depth of the weirdness could not be guessed at until author Michael Behe appeared on the Hannity and Colmes show for a “special report” on ID last week. Late in the interview, America heard this startling exchange: MORE »

• Rumor has it: Blogger of Why.I.Hate.DC fame has had his Christmas wishes answered! Congratulations, dude. Oh, Seattle, we are so very, very sorry. MORE »

As a public service, we bring you the latest mental bulimia from Ann Coulter: MORE »

In the wake of revelations that the Bush administration conducted a campaign of illegal wiretaps pursuant to matters that are widely claimed to be vital to the national interest yet simultaneously devoid of any evidence that the legal avenues available to the President were insufficient to the pursuit thereof, it’s possible to imagine that dull-witted, tranked-up press corps failing to ask any number of questions. Like: Why, Mr. President, are you so angry about the Patriot Act filibuster when you seem jolly well disposed to conferring whatever powers you like upon yourself? Like: What part of “You have seventy-two hours to seek a warrant after the initiation of a wiretap” don’t you understand? Like: Why can’t you and the idea of separation of powers just hug it out, bitch? MORE »

• Over the next few days, a lot of Congressional allies are going to have the President’s back when it comes to this domestic spying stuff, as others argue in favor of a rule of law, the standards set by the Executive Branch, and who had the legal right to say and do what. It seems only fitting, then, to remember what the same people said once upon a time. [DU] MORE »