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While other Republican candidates for president were off wife-roping and campaigning this weekend, John McCain retired to a secluded ranch in Sedona Arizona and gathered near his most cherished press contacts so that they could finally be alone together and talk about where their relationship was going. He forbade political conversation on this somber and sacred weekend, preferring instead to focus on important things such as “dry rubs.” MORE »

• An Egyptian conspiracy-theory music video with cartoon representations of America and Israel is the depressing comic gold Ionesco warned us about. [Andrew Sullivan]
• Novelist Frederick Forsyth loves global terrorism, couldn’t pay mortgage without it. [Galleycat]
• Iraq party scene soon to explode, and not with bombs this time. [Mother Jones]
• Crawford, TX has a new fake ranch owner. [Star-Telegram]
• Fred Phelps has a son, and that son has a cute ass. [You Tube]

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Salon’s War Room blog draws a line in the brush: It will no longer refer to President Bush’s 10,000-acre getaway spot as a ranch. Over to you, Tim Grieve: MORE »