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Oh Nancy Pelosi’s so cool, she’s the first female Speaker of the House! She wears chic outfits! She’s from San Francisco! She hates China and loves freedom! And now she’s palling around with the Dalai Lama, because she is the most sanctimonious California libtard since Richard Gere got exiled to a hamster sanctuary in Wyoming. MORE »

Sometimes, it helps to end the day on a positive note. Today’s positive note: there is another head of state besides ours so experienced in yoga that he, too, can insert his foot completely in his mouth and yet continue to talk. Meet Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper who officially greeted the Dalai Lama in his office in October (a diplomatic no-no, since the Chinese government hates him). Asked to explain himself after the furor, he said, “I met the Dalai Lama in my office but I meet everyone in my office. I don’t know why I would sneak off to a hotel room just to meet the Dalai Lama. You know, he’s not a call girl.” Bush may have terrible pronunciation, but he never compared a meeting with a religious leader to one with a prostitute, eh? [Reuters]

The suave secret agent who hosts “Anderson Cooper 360″ by day and kills terrorists at night made a huge impression on University of Buffalo students on Saturday. MORE »

Take an old-fashioned red state preacher in the cut of every character John Lithgow has ever portrayed on film. Make him spew fire-and-brimstone imprecations and certainties about a creationist myth tricked out as “intelligent design.” You’ll have every member of the scientific community who’s not a laughable fraud sighing in frustration. Ah, but now turn that same preacher into the Dalai Lama, and make the cosmic message something about shiny happy people holding hands. And what do you get? Something like this: MORE »