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Green Day’s Billy Joe Armstrong, who sat down for an interview with Rolling Stone’s David Fricke, sorta, kinda likes Barack Obama because he’s “sick of the religious-figure thing,” thinks the draft is needed to wake up apathetic youth, loves Bill Clinton and still really, really hates Bush. “When you say “Fuck George W. Bush” in a packed arena in Texas, that’s an accomplishment… ” Oh, totes!

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Ever since we crawled out of bed this morning, we here at Wonkette Central have been wondering how best to handle Charles Lane’s totally awesome review in the Washington Post of Chief Justice John Roberts’ new “kid-friendly” biography, now on sale at the Supreme Court gift shop. We know, we know: gift shop? Can you buy genuine Supreme Court gavels there? Not answered in the article, but a lot else is. Basically, we’ve decided to just excerpt the best of the piece, along with an attempt to transcribe our own dumbfounded reaction. That’s right: it’s a snarky summary of an earnest summary of a book written for 12-year-olds. This skillfully illustrates why blogs exist and why maybe they shouldn’t. Layers of intertextuality continue after the jump.

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• “Cafe Saint-Ex respectfully asks that collars be turned down prior to entry.” [DCist]
• Craigslist poster wants to help young person learn on the job: “i need a handjob intern $$$ - m4w” [Craigslist]
• “Wake Me When September Ends” as commentary on Katrina. [Karmagrrrl]
• Too busy to figure out who you want Bush to pick for SCOTUS? A simple quiz will save you the brain-hurty process of thinking about it. [Quizilla]
• Once reason to think twice about Harriet Miers for that position “In the White House that hero worshipped the president, Miers was distinguished by the intensity of her zeal: She once told me that the president was the most brilliant man she had ever met.” [Frum's Diary]
• “Inside of the Bubble” gets Kerry-like reviews: “How exciting is it to see someone check his Blackberry?” and “If the 2008 documentarians get any more distanced from the action, we’ll be watching shaky footage of volunteers painting placards before rallies.” [Foxlife, Slate]