Here is something for you all to masturbate to on this “Slow News Friday”: a Jell-O sculpture of the White House that magically goes from limp and decayed to proudly turgid, thanks to our new president. Check out the artist, Liz Hickok, who seems nifty! [YouTube/Liz Hickok]

Hmm, very interesting! Rahm Emanuel loudly pooh-poohed Howard Dean’s 50-state strategy — you know, the deal where you actually pretend that states besides Ohio and Florida matter in electing a president — and now he has been offered the job of Chief of Staff to that same strategy’s biggest benefactor, Barack Obama. Of course Emanuel is from Chicago, just like Barack Obama, so he is well versed in CHICAGO-STYLE POLITICS (i.e. cooking deep-dish pizzas for William Ayers in Tony Rezko’s slum kitchens, with Louis Farrakhan). MORE »