C’mon now. [PhilStar.com, h/t Shorts' Pants]

According to Experts, the recently minted members of America’s middle class — the ones who got ARMs on their three-bedroom ranches in the exurbs and took out $600 a month car loans on their Ford Explorers and used credit cards to pay for their Starbucks Gargantua-chinos every morning — will now be sad hobos along with the rest of us. They will be the “former middle class.” But one traditionally neglected and sorely undervalued population should do quite well in the tough times ahead: sexy ladies of a certain age. MORE »

We love Fran Townsend, Bush’s Homeland Security spokesmodel, known more for her hotness than her ability to do her job. The Washington Post’s Mary Ann Akers reports today that Townsend was recently spotted having drinks at the Mayflower with, of all people, Philippe Reines, who is not only Hillary Clinton’s Senate spokesman, but also has a perfectly normal name spelled the French way, which proves that he’s also a America-hating pinko terrorist (as if working for Clinton doesn’t already prove that). Akers wonders what on Earth the two could possibly be doing there together, advancing all kinds of possible explanations, most of them pretty uninteresting. Mary Ann, we’ll make it easier, because we know you can’t say this in the Post: they’re obviously totally fucking. MORE »

Early voting in the Philippine province Maguindanao indicate illegal government interference in the electoral process, according to the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, or MILF. MORE »