Wonkette

There are no more nights in politics or business — only the endless horrible grind of collapse and fuckery, 24 hours a day, including this newest chapter in our latest, greatest depression: Washington Mutual has collapsed, and was closed by the Federal Government late Thursday night. It’s the biggest bank failure in U.S. history. And the bipartisan congressional-White House-Treasury bailout deal that might have stopped the bloodshed, well John McCain visited Washington for the first time in half a year and wrecked EVERYTHING. MORE »

With the last troops home from Iraq, the deficit paid off, George W. Bush behind bars and Dick Cheney successfully hanged, tomorrow Congress will hold hearings on the iPhone. MORE »

* “How do you say no to someone without feeling a touch guilty?” [Bloomingdale (for now)]
* The storm didn’t seem that bad, but apparently it wreaked havoc. [ABC 7 News]
* The truce is over? Shit. [In Shaw (now with more gentrification)]
* Could someone get The DCeiver a “fucktardese” translator? [The DCeiver]
* “Basically, if you buy your car out of state and then register your car in DC, there is something they call ‘Title Excise Tax.’ I call this ’sodomy with a nine-iron.’” [Drift Reality]