Oooh, Barack Obama put out a TUFF ad today calling John McCain’s terrible lies “dishonorable.” This is a code word designed to set off sensors in John McCain’s brain and make him lose his Legendary Temper, because he cares so much about honor that he finds it dishonorable to be asked to define it. The point is, this ad, like pretty much every Obama ad we’ve seen, is lame. MORE »

Look, we think Joe Biden is kind of funny, too. But, uh, come the fuck on, AP and CNN and everybody, do you really want this? Biden, he is smart, he knows some things, he would be great on a New Yorker podcast or whatever, but …. Eh, time for bed, finally. When Obama rings in the morning, at 4 a.m., with bad news, we are just going to treat it like any other TXT from some money-wanting no-can-having drunk. Meanwhile, we think of Bill Richardson, we even think of Old Jack Reed the father we never found, we think of Neal Cassady. [CNN/Valleywag/NYT]

There is a little bit of fine print in the Gay American Bylaws stating that donors to Republican candidates will be expelled immediately from one or both elite organizations. Thus Jonathan Crutchley, a McCain contributor and chairman of the gay pickup site Manhunt, had to resign his position on the board lest he be forcibly turned heterosexual and spend the rest of his life wearing ill-fitting shirts from LL Bean. Meanwhile, John McCain returned Crutchley’s donation in order to avoid the Gay Taint. [Towleroad/Boston Herald]