Wonkette

Every four or maybe eight years, magazines start dressing various famous people in wacky “presidential campaign” costumes and photographing them (surrounded by red, white and blue bunting) for cover stories that may or may not have something to do with the person and/or the campaign. It is one of our most cherished traditions, going back to when Poor Richard’s Almanac had a cover woodcut of Hester Prynne in a red thong, addressing the Constitutional Convention. MORE »

But what do noise/punk/grunge pioneers Sonic Youth think of the 2008 Democratic race? Kim Gordon is “inspired” by Barack Obama, that’s what! She will support him, she tells Wonkette’s Liz Glover … even though Gordon admits Obama and Hillary are basically the same, as far as politics. This is what passes for “Fashion Week” these days. And here’s another funny thing: If Barry Obama becomes president, we’ll have a president eight years younger than Sonic Youth’s bassist. Think about it.

Terrorists across the world still believe in the DIY ideal of jihad, refusing, after years of entreaties, to sell out to monied interests, and still making bombs the old-fashioned way. MORE »

* Experience 10 “punk rock” text-message tours, part of this DC is the “Capitol of Punk” movement. [Capitol of Punk]
* “Take even the lowest level Hill staffer out, pour some vodka into him, and you’re guaranteed to come away with something you can use.” [The DC Universe]
* “My mom doesn’t know my birthday. She sent me an e-mail asking me to input my birthday into her online birthday reminder site.” [Secret Simmerings and Shameful Scandals of the Singular Smash]
* Inside the mind of one of our most gifted. [Roosh V]
* Eat and drink outside, by the water at Indigo Landing on Daingerfield Island. [metrocurean]