Guess who’s doing a Live Streaming Video Internet sexytime chat right now? Barack Obama! Jay Leno must’ve been all booked up today. It took your Wonkette about a dozen tries to get the White House site to load, but now it is working, finally. So, if you’re one of the 5-1/2 million people on unemployment currently watching Obama on this web thingy on the Internets because you have nothing else to do and Dish TV cut off your shows, well have fun. Maybe we will “liveblog” a “live chat,” maybe? Nah. But you can go search the submitted questions for stuff like “marijuana” — try “marijauna,” too. [White House]

The FCC has announced a bold new socialist plan to provide wireless Internet all over America, for free! But it won’t have any pr0n, so Americans won’t actually use this free gift. Also, it will be hella slow, as it will be operated by wireless companies forced to do so, by the government, and in competition with the for-profit porn Internet wireless service, which will be super fast. [Silicon Valley Insider/Wall Street Journal]

* John Edwards smash! [Wizbang Politics] MORE »

Hey Al, why the fuck are you using John Kerry’s e-mail to send e-mail? MORE »

Everybody smart knows you shouldn’t do questionable things on your work computer, whether sending out resumes or posting Casual Encounters ads or basically anything you might have a hard time explaining to your boss.

The scumbag criminals in the White House also practice this “cover your tracks” rule. Technically, they “work” for the “American people,” which means the White House computer network and affiliated websites, e-mail accounts, backups and archives are the property of the United States, as required by the Presidential Records Act.

Find out how they’re breaking yet another federal law, after the jump.

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* Ancient Canadian comic to host White House correspondents’ dinner — thanks, Stephen Colbert! [E&P]
* Attack on Iran, come she will. [Arab Times]
* Don’t ever change, The Note. You’re perfect just as you are. [Think Progress]
* Mark Warner can quit campaigning anytime, really, he just likes it. [Hotline on Call]
* John McCain’s two favorite things: “straight talk” and when Wolf swirls his tongue. [Media Matters]
* Return of the “The Fairness Doctrine” could force all broadcast news to resemble Fox. [Captain's Quarters]
* War on drugs: still the undisputed champion of unwinnable wars. [Hit & Run]

Determined to make the Bush Administration seem sane by comparison, John WALNUTS! McCain is finally shifting into the full-on crazy mode we’ve long awaited. MORE »

* Fox News is looking to fill the long vacant position of “fact writer.” [Mediabistro]
* Silvestre Reyes is smart, just not relevant-to-national-security smart. [The Volokh Conspiracy]
* Congressman Roger Wicker, whose Mississippi upbringing imbued him with a deep love for opacity in government operations, wants congressional staff salaries off the internetz. [Potomac Flacks]
* Rahm Emanuel did not have awareness relations with those Mark Foley mails. [Unclaimed Territory] MORE »

Let’s start with Rep. Kay Granger of the 12th District in Texas. She’s an incumbent, seems to be in a safe seat, and doesn’t need some “net roots” hi-tech nonsense. A basic website is fine. MORE »

We realize that when it comes to freedom of the press, the USA has fallen to Number 53 in the world — tied with our fascist homies in Croatia and the islanders of the Kingdom of Tonga! — but do we have to make is so damned obvious? MORE »

ABC News’ man with the prop phone actually had a phone conversation with new-media guy Mark Glaser. MORE »

• “[Phil] Donohue was fired because he was against the Iraq war” [Crooks and Liars]

• “By and large, the Internet — including blogs — reacts to stories and the way full-time journalists tell them.” [Dean's World]
• Men between the ages of 30 and 54 got into their kids’ Douglas Coupland, are now “voluntarily dropping out of work, unable to find a job that interests them, and preferring instead to live at home, doing things that they find more fulfilling.” Name one thing that is more fulfilling than alienating your family. [MoJo]
• “Israel can’t shoot one bullet without America’s permission.” [American Leftist]