Hah hah, you pinkie Commie Metro-riding scum! Thought you’d sneak something past the Bush Administration, did you? Well, they’re smarter than that! Just because the Metro extension to Dulles airport has been in the works for a couple of decades and everyone thinks it’s a good idea and the state of Virginia actually managed to pony up the dough doesn’t mean that this Administration in its waning days won’t find a bunch of reasons to stop it! MORE »

Apparently, there is a government agency in charge of passports that is actually more incompetent than our own. Yay! The Israeli Ministry of the Interior was forced to issue this typo-laden advertisement [which we found on The Jerusalem Diaries] to make up for the fact that it issued some unknown number of typo-laden passports to Israelis. Now if only they could issue more statements or passports with even more typos, our government might actually start to take on the veneer of competency! [Yahoo News]

The American Bar Association announced this afternoon that we had all misunderstood their awarding “Lawyer of the Year” to former Attorney General Alberto “I’ll Decide If You Have Any Rights” Gonzalez. It’s just controversial because we all didn’t read the whole article about the award that totally said that it wasn’t because he was a good lawyer but because he made a lot of news, and we should all be really sorry that we were so mean to them. But, to prevent the rest of the world from getting confused about why they’re awarding the award to the most bullshit, unethical rights-violating lawyer of the decade, they’re changing the name of the award to “Newsmaker of the Year.” Satisfied? [American Bar Association]