• The FBI is doing that thing again where it suggests that everyone to get the seriously get the fuck away from any hotels or stadiums, while at the same time claiming that there have been no “specific” threats against specific places like “stadiums” and “hotels.” [CNN]
• South Korea has finally OK’ed the sale of the iPhone, the North Korea of Apple products. [Wall Street Journal]
• Obama has impressed his new U.N. friends by doing the mature thing and admitting that maybe, yes, fine, the U.S. isn’t completely uninvolved in polluting the Earth. And yeah, we’re all super committed to not doing this anymore, mmhmm. [Los Angeles Times]
• Obama’s deal with The Pharmaceuticals—in which America would save like $80 billion on drugs in the next decade—is hated by every single person ever, plus Chuck Grassley, on principle. [New York Times]
• The “Tom DeLay episode” of Dancing With the Stars was the show’s least popular season-opener ever, except for its first season, back when no one even knew what it was and Tom DeLay was still a common street thug yet to be touched by the redemptive power of dance. [Washington Post]

David Brooks allows a made-up reader to address him as “Mr. Kierkegaard” today in his column. Here is what “Existential in Exeter” asks Søren Kierkegaard, who is David Brooks, about Culture: “All my life I’ve been a successful pseudo-intellectual, sprinkling quotations from Kafka, Epictetus and Derrida into my conversations, impressing dates and making my friends feel mentally inferior. But over the last few years, it’s stopped working. People just look at me blankly. My artificially inflated self-esteem is on the wane. What happened?” David Brooks gets high and then answers — oh man, does he ANSWER — this question (which he actually wrote to himself after getting high, too). MORE »

Bush strategist Karl Rove emerged from his isolation tank last week, and magically appeared at the Willard InterContinental Washington to discuss the crossroads of tech and politics. “One of Rove’s main points — that the Internet creates a dangerous society of spectacle where every political moment is recorded for instant consumption and critique — was realized as audience members live-blogged, Twittered, and took photos for instant proliferation throughout the Web.
” After the jump, The Washingtonian reports on what Rove says really happens when the Internet meets politics:
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With the last troops home from Iraq, the deficit paid off, George W. Bush behind bars and Dick Cheney successfully hanged, tomorrow Congress will hold hearings on the iPhone. MORE »

Following a weekend of harsh global condemnation — or, actually, a single Wonkette post on Friday night — DC Mayor Adrian Fenty has returned the sack of iPhones his operatives collected from the AT&T store at 17th and Pennsylvania. MORE »

The geek world was outraged Friday when Philadelphia Mayor John Street was caught lining up for an iPhone like a common American. Everybody knows politicians don’t roll that way!

Wonkette Operative “JAC” went down to the AT&T store at 17th and Pennsylvania to get an iPhone. Not a huge line, but a line nonetheless. And then some shady characters in an unmarked sedan bummed out everybody … and by “everybody,” we mean “everybody but DC Mayor Adrian Fenty.”

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Have you heard about the iPhone? It’s a wonderful new invention that lets the NSA illegally record all your phone calls, copy all your contacts, keep records of all your Web and IM activity, watch you through the camera, listen in on your household through the mic, and probably put you in a terrorist no-fly database for listening to Cynthia McKinney singing that stupid Pink song.

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