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Today John McCain announced his most insanely simplistic campaign idea yet: a science fair contest. He proposed “a $300 million government prize to whoever can develop an automobile battery that far surpasses existing technology.” Screw you people; Wonkette is going to Home Depot to buy sheet metal, rivets, and Legos right now. MORE »

The Gawker Media shop is apparently selling a lot of these terrible T-shirts in the DC area. Let us be steadfast and not rest until Barack Obama is wearing one of these things on the campaign trail! (But we’re not buying one until it comes in maternity size.) MORE »

The President announced who gets Medals of Freedom today! Let’s take a look at the list: MORE »

We did catch the Scripps National Spelling Bee last night, televised from its location across town in the belly of the Grand Hyatt. Katharine Close, an eighth-grader from Spring Lake, New Jersey, vanquished Finola Mei Hwa Hackett, from Alberta, Canada. After Hackett got tripped up by Weltschmerz, Close correctly spelled Ursprache for the title. How d’ya like dem apples — eh?

For the spelling bee aficionados among you, a few more comments appear after the jump.

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* We scrolled all the way to the bottom but didn’t see our names. Just gonna sit here pressing F5 until we do. [FishBowlDC] MORE »