• Barack Obama has everything he needs to take over the world (1,000 kilos of moutarde de Dijon, his mother-in-law’s crystal ball, and uh, Brookstone Tempur-Pedic Comfort-Step slippers). [TPM]
• In the words of Lenin: “A lie told often enough helps Jim Inhofe manage a chubby.” [Think Progress]
• L’Alberto, a new opera by the great Monteverdi, retells the Greek tragedy of an attorney general who ventures to the Underworld, but then doesn’t recall how or why. [The Daily Dish]
• Azerbaijan, also known as “Egypt” if you subscribe to Fox News Geographic, is very sensitive about donkeys. And human rights. Best not to bring either up, if you happen to visit Cairo. [AMERICAblog]
• For Pete’s sake, how much cocaine did you people snort in the ’80s? Were you brushing your teeth with powder? Apparently, because according to Matt’s fancy Excel graph, you all got totally ripped and bought a new Porsche every day. Props. [Matt Yglesias]

• Ken Layne reviews Infinite Jest, or some other book. [Las Vegas Weekly]
• Honestly, there’s really no point in reading something you’ve already been paid to vote against. [Think Progess]
• Convicts need their stimulus checks just as much as the next guy. How else can they afford to have The Club™ surgically installed in their pooper? [RedState]
• Your children will be brainwashed with Mao’s Little Red Book, and then they will coerce you into participating in the Census. [Michelle Malkin]
• The problem with investigating torture is that it might have a “chilling effect” on torture! [Matt Yglesias]

Wonkette liberal junk mail target operative “Rita” sends us this scan of “a postcard I got from Barbara Boxer thanking California voters for their support.” We don’t really know where the “thanking” part is — do they make two-sided paper these days? — all we see is Barbara Boxer calling her arch enemy Oklahoma Sen. Jim Inhofe a woman. Even worse, a former woman. Is Barbara Boxer trying to tell us something?

Oklahoma Sen. Jim Inhofe is a maniacal anti-science oil-eating death ogre, a.k.a. the smartest person in the Republican Party, except for Ronald Reagan and, hmm, Michael Goldfarb. He is so brilliant at life that the liberal New York Times invited him to weigh in on its discussion blog, “Room For Debate,” about the possible repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. Instead of writing about this issue, however, he just threw down some hot-shit psychobabble about Arlen Specter that makes no sense at all to us, the idiots. MORE »

Looking for a Friday diversion? Have some highlights from last Wednesday’s Grover Norquist breakfast meeting: MORE »

Washington has spent 15 years getting warmer, because of too many trees. Now we’ve moved from the New England/Mid-Atlantic climate zone to a full-fledged Southern one. MORE »

Senator Jim Inhofe is still, for now, the head of the Senate Environment Committee, because Irony was brutally murdered by George Allen and placed in a black family’s mailbox some years ago. Having saved the world from melting by denying the existence of global warming, Inhofe is now making his own scientific findings available for you to peruse on a Senate website. The pamplet, “Burn more oil, everything’s fine, you stupid hippie,” makes a great holiday gift, if your friends like pdf files. MORE »

Senator Inhofe’s increasingly lonely crusade against the existence of Global Warming continues Wednesday when the Oklahoma Republican holds a festive “Climate Change and the Media” committee hearing. MORE »

• Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) has learned nothing from HBO’s Big Love. [Political Animal]

• Lieutentant Ehren Watada refuses to go to Iraq when Stryker Brigade is deployed. Wizbang readers want him shot: “They had a better way of dealing with this sort of thing during WWII. It was called a ‘firing squad’” and then turn on each other: “You cry babies have no clue and shit for memories.” [Wizbang]
• House Appropriations Chairman Jerry Lewis’ (R-CA) is even more screwed. Remember when Letitia White bought a house with a defense contractor who wanted funds earmarked from Lewis’ committee? And then that house turned out to be the headquarters for a Political Action Committee? Today we learn that PAC is operated by Lewis’ stepdaughter, Julie Willis-Leon. [TPM Muckraker]
• Zakaria Amara is punk as shit: “I hate flags. I hate countries… I hate man made laws…. I hate nationalism with a passion…” Or, as the Sex Pistols put it: “Get Pissed Destroy!” [Pajamas Media]

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If you’re not watching the Senate Gay Marriage debate, this is what you’re missing (This was illustrated, by the way, with a giant prop picture of his big-ass family): MORE »