• The exact instant that all the crooked congressmen you love to hate “jumped the shark.” [The Left Coaster]

• Another “top 10″ list, as long-irrelevant music magazine does cover story on soon to be irrelevant congressmen. [Think Progress]
• Larry Craig’s voting record reveals the old “it’s not gay if your balls don’t touch” urban legend is alive and well. [Pandagon]
• McCain on a Democratic Senate majority: “I think I’d just commit suicide.” [Political Wire]
• Americans fire more bullets in Iraq everyday than there are people in St. Paul, MN. [Hit & Run]
• Israel decides bullets are for suckers, is now murdering Palestinians with Klingon disruptors. [Cryptogon]
• Kim Jong-Il has the power of the atom in his hand and the work of the Member’s Only designers on his back. [The Cool Honey]
• Here is why John McCain won’t have to kill himself: the opposition party is the Democrats. [NYO]

• UN, like Goldilocks, needs to find sanctions for North Korea that are not too harsh, not too weak. [WP, NYT, WSJ]

• White House believes nuclear test was a “big deal” even if the bomb was made out of chewing gum, popsicle sticks. [NYT, USAT]
• Kim Jong-Il isn’t crazy, just crazy in love with Bree Van De Kamp. [LAT]
• Hastert holds press conference to remind congressional staffers that shit still flows downhill. [WP, NYT]
• McCain unsure if it’s 2008 or 1998, blasts both Clintons to hedge his bets. [WP]
• More than twice as many Iraqis have died violently since 2003, than in the previous 20 years under the Hussein regime. [WSJ]
• The case of a recently killed Russian journalist and the long dead Russian independent media. [WP, NYT]

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