Because the camera is racist, it loves our slender and dignified Senator from Illinois — so it’s a rare treat to find a photo of him looking a little rough around the edges, like an Ordinary American. Here’s Barack Obama coming off the third shift at the lace mill in Scranton, where he shared a bong with Hillary Clinton’s grandfather. [AP Photo]

After spending a couple days being a terrible diplomat at the UN, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice swung by to a grade school in Harlem to answer a couple of the questions our terrible “main-stream media” won’t ask her. Like, how does she even sleep with what she’s done? The answer: pretty good, all things considered. MORE »

The good old days of wacky parliamentary bullshit are long gone in the Senate — you don’t even have to actually filibuster to filibuster any more, how lame is that — so we were kinda half-heartedly excited for this all-night session thing that Harry Reid was going to force everyone to do. Then he pussed out and they set up cots and he changed the times of the roll-call vote so everyone could get a couple hours of sleep, stripping his useless political stunt of what little slightly-comprehensible symbolism it possessed. After all, if we could’ve forced Orrin Hatch to stay up all night, we might’ve finally won (lost?) in Iraq. Now, nothing.

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Colin Powell, in late 2003: MORE »