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Some dingbat state Republican leader says John McCain is “kind of like Jesus.” Because they were both born 2,000 years ago? No! It’s because, according to Georgia Republican Party chairwoman Sue Everhart, John McCain never denounced the United States when he was a war prisoner — just like Christ, when he was in ‘Nam. Ha ha, but McCain did denounce the United States. Explore the idiocy, after the jump. MORE »

There’s a public radio show that enjoys making fun of religion and specifically the various real and fake Jesus religions, apparently. And the producers of the “Fair Game” program are in big trouble today, sort of, because of a fun-filled sketch that mocked the whole communion ritual and Baptist preacher/GOP star Mike Huckabee — who used to be so fat and is from the South where almost everyone is so fat. It sounds like comedy gold … and yet some people took offense. MORE »

We always knew Michael J. Fox was basically in league with the Devil — Mojo Nixon described Fox as “the evil opposite of Elvis, the Anti-Elvis” — but who knew Jesus Christ himself would be coming down to help Rush Limbaugh save the innocent stem cells. MORE »

Is it possible for one brief message board exchange to explain the entire culture and mindset of the Washington Douchebag? To succinctly illustrate everything about them worth ridiculing? If so, this Late Night Shots dialogue might be the motherlode: MORE »

Mr. Bush said, “I’m doing fine, my health is fine,” after being examined at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md. And he said he knew why he had put on weight since last summer: “I probably ate too many birthday cakes.”

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* Gang war eruptz in Logan Circle! 5-0 Mob versuz the New Commandment Baptist Church Crewz, Beat downz imminent! [DCeiver] MORE »

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• We keep getting emails about some change-up at CNN. Who is this Aaron Brown guy? [TV Week]
• There’s a “White House ‘truth closet.’” Is Scott McClellan in it? [NPR]
• Law and justice religious leader is way into profit: “Some of us truly believed God told us to serve Jay…But not to help him live like Louis XIV.” [Legal Times]
• A War on Terror vs. War on Bird Flu analogy: Cheney is to Halliburton as Rumsfeld is to Gilead Sciences. Go nuts, kids. [Fortune]
• Jesus Christ what does it take to get fired from the Times? [NYO, HuffPo]
• Bloggers staying away from WH briefings in droves. Why? Because we’re laaazzzeeee. [E&P]
• The closing of the Senate will be avenged: “In a real sense, you see, the U.S. Senate plays by hip-hop rules: Respect is all. Disrespect is the ultimate crime, and must be avenged swiftly and mercilessly.” They don’t call him Fristy-Cent for nothing. [TNR's The Plank]
• You have no idea how badly we wish we were making this up: “Santorum: Well she called and the first thing she said to me was you know Suzanne Wright? I said sure and then she says, well I’d like to do a threesome.” [C&L]