Wonkette

America’s arbitrarily reginal czarina of letterputtingtogether, Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan, is in a tit-bit of a snit! She refuses to deign either American candidate for Leader as possessing the requisite traits to divert the West’s neo-mercantilist econometric interplay system from almost certain gloom and/or “doom”! Tut tut, what rogues, what Beelzebubs of fiery pagan disposition, are suppressing the hare-like candor we should expect from our two applicants in an epoch of global Money Plague? Noonington knows: ’tis the candidates’ Hired Help — the “political advisers,” as America’s boorish Huns know them — that have poisonedeth the grog of political discourse in the Colonies. Letteth us chance into this seven-day’s issuance of “Declarations.” MORE »

We feel kind of dirty about pimping this, because Americans must protect their precious dog-torturing freedoms, but it’s probably the only opportunity to say “naked girl” and “State of the Union” in the same post. MORE »

Fine, whatever, we’ll take it. Yes, we will proudly take some sketchy outtake from “Borat” over another 500 years of being resolute and no pictures of the 30,000 new flag-draped coffins and such. Victory Fever … catch it! But was there anything really cool that wasn’t in the photograph? Yes, yes there was:

They slit the rabbit’s belly, ripped it open and feasted on the still beating heart. The commandos of the Iraqi army were celebrating on Wednesday after the Americans had handed over control of Najaf province.

U.S. Hands Najaf Province Over to Iraqi Forces [NYT}