Wonkette

We interrupt your Fourth of July with some Breaking News: Jesse Helms was apparently still alive, and now he’s dead, hooray! He was a sour troll and a bigot, and it’s a testament to every rotten thing about this country that for a quarter century, he was one of the most powerful people in American politics. [LAT/NYT]

All George W. Bush wants to do these days is sing and dance. Hey, he’s a pretty okay guy after all! So what if he killed 600,000 people and blew up a third of the world and ruined the Global Economy and probably caused AIDS? He loves to entertain, and the Washington Press Corps loves when anybody famous pays attention to them! MORE »

“Chertoff: We’re Preparing for Nuclear Attack.” [NewsMax]