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Instead of running for president and giving journalists a chance to use all those great “Al Bore” jokes again, Gore has just written another book — this time about how everybody’s an idiot. The press is not pleased, as evidenced by the unflattering reviews of the book: MORE »

There’s a great new (or old?) association in town, and it’s very unpopular. The International Bible Reading Association held a big event at the Capitol yesterday, if by “big event” you mean “600 chairs were set up, and a total of 37 people sat down, and most of those were tourists eating their lunch, and Jeff Gannon is the spokesman.” MORE »

All the Democrats plus Chuck Hagel and Gordon what’s-his-name from Oreganada voted to spend $124 billion on losing the War in Iraq yesterday, despite the fact that their bill will be vetoed. It will be a very symbolic veto, though, because they refuse to deliver the bill to the President until the 4th anniversary of the now-classic “Mission Accomplished” speech (Christ, four years! How time flies when you’re occupying). But nooo, they’re not just doing it to be dicks. The parchment copy machine is out of toner, or something. MORE »

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Charles Dana, 19th century editor and publisher, was a giant in the field of journalism. 21st century columnist Dana Milbank? Realllllly reaching with this business: MORE »

It’s nice of the Washington Post to, directly under their article insisting that Fed chief Ben Bernanke calmed Wall Street (subhead: “Bernanke Upbeat As Stocks Rebound”), link to the Milbank column that points out how Ben Bernanke didn’t really say much of anything. Saves us the trouble. MORE »

Sun-Times Washington correspondent (and semi-official Obama-chronicler) Lynn Sweet gives us a fascinating, totally unsurpsising glimpse at just how the Washington Post’s Washington Sketch column gets put together each week: MORE »

• Clint Eastwood knows that if George Allen was on that Iwo Jima hill he would’ve made sure it was the stars ‘n stripes flying, not the stars ‘n bars. Unless it was the ’70s, then whatever. [Hotline on Call]

• Julia Allison learns via NRSC press release that Rep. Harold Ford is just not that into her. [Julia Allison]
• Laura Bush and George Allen (The Organizer) evite supporters to a grand-per-head fundraiser that apparently does not include dinner. Luckily, all attendees already have the number for the Morton’s in McLean on their speeddial. [The Gaggle]
• Tony Snow channels his best Lawrence Fishburne, “You take the red pill and you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes.” [Whiskey Bar]
• Wal-Mart’s marketing firm is the Mark Foley of public relations. [Young Manhattanite]
• Overwhelming majority of Democrats feel the #1 issue in the midterm elections is, “What species of alien is Bush really?” [Radar, Hit & Run]
• Dana Milbank: truly in his element when interviewing candidates on how best to promote “man/boy love.” [Hit & Run]

This is Dana Milbank’s last Zeitgeist Checklist before his unfortunate book leave, so we’ll be gentle. The checklist run in The Post on Sundays. Sure, it runs in Slate on Friday nights or Saturdays, but no one reads Slate on weekends, fer chrissakes. What we’re getting at is, for a column that runs on a Sunday and is meant to, in a sense, predict or explain the coming week (are we wrong?), it’s unfortunate that the only thing anyone is actually talking about this week is listed at number seven and falling (losing to Pervez Musharraf!) MORE »