Wonkette

• In a just world “Congressional Signature Machine Operator” would be a union job. [DCist]

• The God damn country is adrift and rudderless! [Hey Pretty]
• Quick sanity check before you take the bladder out of the box of wine, put it in your jacket pocket, and head out. [Rock Creek Rambler]
• Magic 8 ball says, “I see more schoolyard-sandbox-as-metaphor” articles in your future. [DCeiver via Fishbowl DC]

Really, we don’t mean to harp on the stylistic flourishes of the Note. But the thing just randomly sprays so much pretension and so many empty faux-knowing asides into our poor overtaxed brainpan that we find ourselves idly trying to formulate Notely phrases to describe its torment: “risible rodomontade”? “power-vocab preening”? “obfuscatory obsequiousnes to power”? “fellatial mash notes to the headmaster”? MORE »