Wonkette

• Al Sharpton’s descent into madness reaches new milestone with incorporation of the “Space Jam” theme song into Connecticut rally speech. [Hartford Courant]

• Dilbert creator longs to be a cog in the machine. [Dilbert Blog]
• A convenient truth: global warming is producing new premium beers. [BBC]
• Intern humiliates DHS by creating informative website in two flip-flop-wearing months. [Boing Boing]
• If Smith Point advertised on television, this it what it would look like. [Logged Hours]
• Some days Tony Snow wishes he was still asking the questions, instead of not answering them. [Boozhy]
• National Conservative Student Conference peddling masturbatory fodder to “baby wingnuts.” [Pandagon]

* Having returned from his cosmic vacation, “The Rev” orders The Washington Times to get with the times. [Metroblogging DC] MORE »

O, Canada! First the True North leadership class gets swept up in alien invasion mania. And now, Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin is getting all stiff and bothered about the threat of U.S. tariffs on the–we kid you not–soft wood trade. Apparently US Ambassador David Wilson (and yes, it does seem that everyone even tangentially connected to Canada must have the most generic white guy names on the planet) suggested that Martin and the candidates opposing him in the upcoming Canadian ballot lay off the casual derision of Yankee wood interests. That brought this thundering rebuke from the prime minister as he coincidentally strolled the grounds of a British Columbian lumber yard: MORE »