Alaska Senator Ted Stevens is as ancient and snowy white as the craggy glaciers his people farm in the Land of the Midnight Sun. And despite the fact that he is 1,000 years old and knows nothing about the Internet and is under investigation for graft, he has boldly decided to run for re-election, again. MORE »

Senator Mitch McConnell is ruining the reputations of three University of Louisville physicians by providing video evidence that they said nice things about him, once. The victims of McConnell’s smear campaign were taped saying things like “I think Senator McConnell is very interested in the health and welfare of the people in the state of Kentucky.” And, for a few brief weeks in December and January, McConnell was showing this garbage on the teevee. MORE »

*MAKE YOUR WONKETTE FEEL PRETTY:* Ruh roh, voting for the 2008 Weblog Awards, commonly called the “Bloggies,” ends tonight at 10 p.m. EST. Your favorite Wonkette, which Google News categorizes as satire, earned a nomination for Best Weblog About Politics. If this is confusing to our readers, reconsider the wording of “About Politics,” and in some rare foreign cults we might be considered the “Best” at this. Go vote hooray! [2008 Bloggies]

Whatever you may or may not think about The New York Times‘ Deborah Solomon and her Q&A magazine column, she certainly tries to pin down her subject. In last weekend’s column, she cornered former Disney honcho Michael Eisner and briefly drilled him on politics. The result? Eisner comes off looking like an ass-kissing, dodgy asshat. Or, in other words: mission accomplished! The exchange, after the jump. MORE »

SNL’s Fred Armisen impersonates lots of people. He’s delivered on the left-handed fey rock set: Liberace, Phil Spector, Lou Reed and Prince. Nailed the evil, weird quad of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Vicente Fox, Hugo Chávez and Steve Jobs. He’s good, right? Now, he’s added “political comedian” Nicholas Fehn, a shaggy, stammering hipster and ADD victim: “I do the type of comedy…Basically what I do is I take headlines … I take newspapers. I read them. And I comment on them. It’s my own skewed view on things.” Imagine our massive meta moment. MORE »

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Remember the good old days for embattled Sen. Joe Lieberman (D-Conn), when the fifty-term politician with the big heart from the little state bragged that he had his own special flavor of Walter Mondale’s mesmerizing “Norwegian Charisma,” something called “Joementum” that would help win the 2004 Democratic presidential nod and eventually become God-Emperor of Dune? MORE »

The Pew Internet & American Life Project has released a big new study about blogging. MORE »

The last we saw of the google-eyed incumbent Republican senator from Jeffrey Dahmer’s home adopted home state of Ohio, he was giving the bum’s rush to a libidinous junior office worker by the name of…wait, don’t tell us, it’s right on the tip of our tongue, you know the one who wrote the novel and posed for Playboy and is now running a dude ranch in California with the Fonz and Lenny and Squiggy and Josie and the Pussycats. MORE »

So boasts Starchild, 36-year-old Army reservist and current candidate for the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, while speaking at last week’s big sex-worker-palooza event in Sin City (where it seems all the good political happenings are happening these days). MORE »

Wonkette’s favorite acknowledged porn-star-cum-politician, Nevada gubernatorial hopeful Melody “Mimi Miyagi” Damayo, continues to wow potential Silver State voters bored of gambling and whoring. Mimi’s latest stunt: a karaoke and limbo-contest fundraiser. Reports the Las Vegas Review-Journal: MORE »