Next to basketball, Barack Obama’s favorite hobby is to take Leftover Fetuses — known as “table scraps” in the White House kitchen — mix them up in a blender, sit them atop a bed of arugula and a balsamic reduction, and DINE. This is called embryonic stem cell research, and he passed an executive order today easing restrictions on it. On the other hand, he reiterated a strong stance against Human Cloning, which is the only *fun* part of stem cell research, so basically he should be impeached, yesterday. MORE »

Of course it’s fixed now, because Arianna Huffington hates funny things. Also how about that President Obama, hmm? He has been a very busy fellow these past two days, all signing (singing?) important orders and actually doing stuff he said he would do in his campaign. [Huffington Post]

Turns out our whole “have lawyers and neo-con think tankers make up an interrogation policy on the fly, then let untrained soldiers and reservists improvise” policy has resulted in a little bit of torture, here and there. Which, you know, awesome, everyone loves torture, let a thousand Guantanamos bloom, but now it turns out that torture isn’t really that effective, unless you’re trying to get some poor out-of-favor nomenklatura to admit to plotting to kill Stalin. MORE »