The Washington Post opinion editors searched far and wide, from North to South Pole, from the highest canopies of the Amazon to the murky floor of the Indian Ocean, for a new genius to grace its Sunday edition with the most profound weekly insights on America, God, Morality, and other very important topics. The search for this Chosen One hath culminated, and it is… Dana Milbank, that lunatic down the hall who makes wacky videos about hippies and beer. This, combined with the paper’s recent price increase, makes it inexcusable to not purchase five copies of the Washington Post every day forever. [Michael Calderone]

NO-FUN WSJ EDITORS APPEAR TO HAVE READ SARAH PALIN’S OP-ED BEFORE PUBLISHING IT. Here is Sarah Palin, writing about health care and “overquoting” “like” “she’s” “editing” “Zagat” in the Wall Street Journal. It is your pretty standard Palin fare, but the ratio of Reagan quotes to secular words is lower than one might have hoped for. [Wall Street Journal]

The Ottawa Herald (of Franklin County, Kansas, not Canada) became a national sensation this morning when it taught us that Barack Obama is actually a dangerous Muslim extremist who will destroy our precious values with his “change” and “hope.” But now the paper seems to be meekly backtracking from the crazy-ass ignorant rant written by the paper’s own printing-press operator! MORE »

We haven’t written a word on the John Edwards hired-bloggers scandal because it’s stupid and boring, but that didn’t stop Dan Gerstein. In today’s Politico, he lays out his case: Liberal bloggers are stupid anti-Christian meanies who need to be DESTROYED. And they’re bad for the Democratic party and Kos is a vampire, blah blah blah. MORE »