COMMENT OF THE DAY: Regarding John Edwards’ long-delayed admission that he knocked up that new-age video gal and made her hide his baby all this time, commenter Vewol Mevemont says, “That child is the grandson of a mill worker.” And that, friends, is made of WIN.

You have probably heard by now about this “John Edwards” character, who constructed his own vulgarian Monticello out of dirt, mirrors, and his own crippling self-regard out in a mud-patch in North Carolina. He also ran for president, twice, but nobody wanted to elect him because he was such an awful reptilian phony. THEN it came out he was fucking some dreadful hippie on the 2008 campaign trail, which made his wife vomit when she heard about it, and the reason you haven’t seen that last bit mentioned on your Wonkette is that we honestly find the whole episode just that distasteful. But this we can get behind: possible misappropriation of campaign funds! MORE »

MAIN STREAM MEDIAS: Here, after we’re already bored of the story, are 53 news articles about the mill worker John Edwards and his weird Beverly Hills hotel bathroom adventure and “Rielle Hunter” and Adultery and bastard children. [Google News]

As this picture I took in the Cashman Center parking lot reveals, John Edwards has been elected President of Large Letters. Nobody has letters anywhere near this big. Sadly, he will not be President of the Country or even President of Las Vegas, so he’s bailing Nevada on Friday — just before the Saturday caucus. Hey, they are serving crappy sandwiches in the filing room! Everybody is now literally running across this massive warehouse to get to the catering table. This is basically the main exercise most journalists get during a day on the Campaign Trail. (Other than furiously masturbating to pictures of Al Gore, I mean.)

Edwards won’t be hanging around past Friday [Las Vegas Sun]