Wonkette

• Bolton’s still waiting - for a train back to DC, cause his confirmation is dead. [The Coffee House]

• DHS is pursuing criminal charges against a journalist who filmed a “national security site owned by Exxon,” in the wake of Katrina. Spike Lee ponders real estate in Switzerland. [Greg Palast]
• The worst hair on the hill, indexed by species. [Radar Magazine]
• The DEA can’t even seize a bag without the stems and the sticks. [TalkLeft]
• Bill O’Reilly wants to help you through your identity crisis, bowel movements. [Rude Pundit]
• Cindy Sheehan dreams of going Terminator on Bush in his little crib, but she’s clearly not thinking big picture. [DCeiver]
• Sandy Berger is going after ABC to keep a lid on the fact that he couldn’t kill Bin Laden because he was too busy blowing lines off Madeline Albright’s tits. [IMAO]

On Monday, Ken Silverstein of Harper’s told the tale of Representative Jeb Bradley (R-NH), who tends to increase his considerable net worth with each roll call vote (he also does shit like invest in Halliburton while trashing them on the floor). More entertaining, though, was this tidbit:

He once lived in Switzerland and worked as a street magician, returning in 1981 to New Hampshire, where he later opened an organic grocery called Evergrain Natural Foods. Back then, according to people who knew him, Bradley had long, rock-star hair. Think Peter Frampton.

Bradley’s totally bummin’ response, after the jump.

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In our search for most obvious rugs in Congress, we left out two audience favorites — Bill Frist and Trent Lott.

Frist, left, demands that Senator Leahy read his note aloud before the whole Senate. Lott, right, wears the scalp of late Senator Strom Thurmond in order to absorb his powers. MORE »

The first responses to our request for rug-sporting politicians have arrived! One of them stretches the definition of “DC Pol” a bit, but we’ll allow it, as the hair is just too weird not to.

On the left, Maryland Governor Bob Ehrlich. His hair doesn’t so much grow from his head as enclose it, in much the way his state encloses our fair city. On the right, Ben Nelson, Senator from Nebraska, the Corn-something state (right?). MORE »