Shortly after this photograph was taken, the gentleman on the right was offered the Republican nomination for vice president. He turned it down to go run Lehman Brothers instead. Thanks to Brian for sending this along.

Here’s “gotcha journalist” Katie Couric getting quizzed by TMZ about her reading habits. She says the same exact thing that Sarah Palin said (”all of them, any of them”), except she says it to be funny. HOW DISRESPECTFUL. Katie also says she reads The Economist for the articles, and for the monthly compendium of slightly ribald jokes about oversexed blondes which she likes to tell at cocktail parties while John McCain is off raping gorillas. [TMZ via Ben Smith]

Who loves Hillary! Everyone, of course, and that’s why she held a pretty hilarious & tragic “blog chat” on her Internet today with supporters. Many of these supporters are basically illiterate, which is the “hilarious” part, and yet Hillary answered their questions in ominous ways, which is the “tragic” part. MORE »

When you suck as badly as George W. Bush, not even the GOP candidates will mention your name — unless it’s an insult. And yet, poll after poll finds that 30% of Americans who can manage to pick up a ringing telephone say they approve of this miserable presidency. Who are these people? They’re the people who write angry messages to the Worst President Ever website, that’s who. MORE »

A shocking new book proves Americans are simultaneously the most “religious” and the most religiously ignorant people in the developed world. Overwhelming majorities of Our Fellow Citizens don’t know anything about the Bible, the teachings of Jesus or even the 10 Commandments they want posted everywhere. (Could Christians want those ancient laws displayed at every government building so they can learn one or two?)

We’ve got a shameful list of things Americans don’t know about their beloved religion, after the jump.

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