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Mary Cheney’s baby will be a boy, according to the Vice President himself. MORE »

Like our brave American heroes at Central Command in Florida who remotely bomb Afghan villages using military-grade PS2s, Dick Cheney is simply standing in the bushes so you don’t see the remote control he uses to make Bush lie. MORE »

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Brigham Young University, the fake college where kids from the Church of Jesus of Latter Day Saints can go to receive their worthless degree without ever having to be exposed to a single idea contrary to their upbringing, has apparently inched itself closer to reality: they know Vice President Dick Cheney is an evil vampire hellbent on conquering the earth and eating our children. MORE »

Ever since they appointed that dude with metal teeth Undersecretary of Defense and Dick Cheney took to calmly stroking his white Angora cat during public appearances the Bush adminsitration has been way less careful about not presenting themselves as the cartoonish supervillains they actually are. So it should come as no surprise that their preferred solution to the global climate change crisis involves, yes, blocking the sun with giant space mirrors.

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New York mag has a lengthy profile of Henry Kissinger. What we learned:

* Henry Kissinger is short, has a deep voice.
* Henry Kissinger is a sycophant.
* Henry Kissinger is very charming.
* Henry Kissinger has lots of rich Manhattan liberal media friends.
* Henry Kissinger is BFF with John “WALLNUTS!” McCain.
* We miss Peter Jennings, if only for the occasional stories like this:

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When the Bush family reoccupied the White House in January 2001, the dynasty’s own Rasputin needed to do a little dark magic on his new quarters.

Soon after Rove moved into his new office in the West Wing, previously occupied by Hillary Clinton, he invited three top Catholic priests to conduct a ceremony to purge the room of evil spirits. “It was an actual liturgical ceremony,” says participant Deal Hudson. “We sat at the table, we prayed. A priest said a series of prayers, including a blessing.”

Sadly, it didn’t work and the White House remains the Temple of Ultimate Evil … which might also be the name of a top-selling PlayStation game. MORE »

• Ned Lamont is a gnat on a dog’s ass, electronic spying is cat’s meow. [Blackfive]

• Let’s argue about what is the most evil: Evilness, the Soviet Union at the peak of the Cold War, or Nazis. [TPM Cafe]
• Cheery how-to-fix-Iraq Power Point slide. [Crooked Timber]
• The word “naughty” is never ok. [The Volokh Conspiracy]
• “I think a lot of people put up reviews on Amazon about liberal and conservative books without even reading them. Now, the same thing is happening with milk!” [IMAO]
• Reuters and Lauren Weisberger inspire alternate, better covers for books you read excerpts of in The Atlantic. [HuffPo]

Good News, War-Weary Liberals! MORE »

* What’s the worst company in America? The competition was fierce, but the winner is deserving. [Consumerist] MORE »