Wonkette

According to the Stamford Advocate, an FBI investigation has concluded that the notorious crash of Joe2006.com, Joe Lieberman’s glorious Web site, the day before his August 2006 primary loss to actual Democrat Ned Lamont was caused by Joe Lieberman’s campaign. When will Joe Lieberman apologize to Joe Lieberman for these dirty tricks? MORE »

During the Hurricane Katrina fiasco, FEMA found out the hard way that sometimes the press just isn’t feeling very charitable towards the incompetent agency. So when they had a press conference today, the Washington Post’s Al Kamen reveals, it’s way better to just make sure the reporters can’t get there, and then to assign various staffers with make-believe roles as pretend reporters. MORE »

Everyone at the World Bank hates “Shoeless Paul” Wolfowitz. They didn’t like him from the beginning (you start one little unjustified war and endless bloody occupation based on specious intelligence…) and once he took over he didn’t win any new friends by giving his girlfriend a huge, illegal raise. MORE »

Brownie, Bush, and Mark Foley reenact their favorite scene from Reservoir Dogs. MORE »

It’s hard to make any plans for getting out of Iraq — or any plans for anything, ever — when the freakin’ Department of Defense has no idea how many American troops are in Iraq:

The precise number of U.S. troops is murky. [General John] Abizaid today it was over 140,000. His staff later said it was closer to 142,000. Colonel Nelson McCouch, spokesman for [General George] Casey, said in an e-mail from Baghdad Sept. 17 that the current level is about 147,000.

How do you misplace 7,000 (presumably living) troops? Are they home in America? Did they go AWOL? Abducted by aliens? Don’t you people have a spreadsheet or something? MORE »

• DC Cops still believe arresting murderers who purchase Swedish made penis enlargers with stolen credit cards ain’t in their job description. [Velvet In Dupont]

• Not that it matters — in DC you can stack papers with out ever looking at the stack of paper on your desk. [Cut DC Taxes]
• There’s even money to be made selling tourists a little piece of the pretending-to-work culture. [Are Seven]
• Sorry hippie, these blurbs on the mayoral candidates won’t mean shit to you unless you’re a registered Democrat. [Til Human Voices Wake Us, And We Drown]
• Is it hot in here? Or is Obama talking about STD’s again? [ An Orange County Girl]
• In junior high, calling it a “needle” was an insult. [Grace's Poppies]

Canada has just beat Gary Ackerman by like A BILLION.

Canada has finally managed to one-up us. In hilarious congressional incompetence, where previously only the Italians presented a serious challenge. Canada doesn’t have the bomb, does it? We’re suddenly way more worried about them than Iran. MORE »

On Andy Card’s last day, even — they never fire the ones you want, right? MORE »

Today, U.S. District Judge John E. Jones ruled against the Dover Area School Board’s decision to insert intelligent design into their schools’ science curriculum. A great ruling for anyone who prefers their science to be based less in folklore and more in, uhm, what’s the word for it…oh, yeah: science. MORE »

Dr. John Simkovich, director of the Charleston, S.C.,-based Department of Health and Environmental Control, got word from FEMA to prepare for a planeload of Katrina victims from New Orleans. He was able to assemble a team of physicians to greet the plane, which, FEMA officials told him, was due to arrive in just half an hour. And then . . . . MORE »