The DC Metro ran this ad on a bobbleheaded Pope riding the Metro to a big crazy Papal Mass at Nationals Stadium, and the Washington Archdiocese was like, Hey that is not funny, you are talking about the leader of our religion there, and he would never advise riding the DC Metro, furthermore he is not wearing the right Pope-hat.
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Two contract employees at the State Department accessed Barack Obama's passport files on three separate occasions this year, and have now been fired for their "imprudent curiosity." They accessed his file! On three separate occasions! It is a horrible breach of some sort! Wonkette demands a full independent investigation, led by Ken Starr. [AP]
The kids, they grow up so fast these days! Not so long ago, our little Butterstick was the National Zoo's newest adorable panda cub, conceived in a blissful and loving act of artificial insemination. Now officially called "Tai Shan," he is all growns up and raping zookeepers. At least, we assume that is what they mean when the Washington Post says he made "physical contact" with one of his caretakers.
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Now she's getting nasty: Hillary is lashing out against America's Funnyman, "Sinbad," which is basically political suicide. Do you know how many presidents were elected after criticizing Sinbad? Zero, that's how many.
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Relax, Mitt Romney wasn’t wearing a wire and being fed information from his research staff during last night’s GOP debate! MSNBC says it was just a “microphone malfunction.” And then MSNBC.com removed all references to the incident. [Raw Story]
Matt Drudge is super excited about this dumb web-video game. “Online shooting game lets kids target presidential candidates,” he typed on Drudge Report today. Tragically, it’s just “virtual paintball” — an even dumber version of the dumb corporate-retreat diversion in which people play some sort of capture-the-flag game and aim the paint pellets at each others’ nuts. Also, the Rudy Giuliani in this game still has his iconic 9/11 combover. [Presidential Paintball]
“In short, university faculty do not resemble the general population on their political and religious views. The data show that university faculty are similar to other ‘elite’ groups of highly educated people in the society, i.e., more liberal than the norm, less religious, less likely to have voted for George W. Bush, etc.” [12 Angry Men]
A great American humorist has died at 84. Kurt Vonnegut wrote so many brutal & crazy comedies about the United States. It is a tragedy how he didn’t become Pope of Culture in 1981, but we had some pretty serious budget cuts then and the Pope of Culture was eliminated in a firestorm of napalm.
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The secretary of the Army got tossed out just now, for 
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