Jesus Christ. No link, sadly.

Drat that Sky News, with their lack of embed function on their videos! Anyway, here is the most exciting thing you will see all day: President Obama’s driver trying to execute a three-point turn in front of the British Prime Minister’s house. A lady fixes her hair while a man directs the car into its parking spot! It is pretty goddamn thrilling compared to pretty much anything else that’s going on today. [Times Online]

Hmm. It appears as though Matt Drudge is speaking Muslim now. He is so ahead of the curve. [Drudge]

Sergei Stanishev, the prime minister of Bulgaria, was stuck on a cable car at a ski resort for an hour yesterday. The power went out, which apparently happens all the time over there, in Bulgaria, because they keep building things even though they don’t have electricity or roads and other such Western luxuries. After the jump: video footage of Prime Minister Stanishev bravely battling German double agents on top of a cable car. MORE »

* Reliable Source: Bush chaos in Hawaii, Argentina, respectively. [WP]
* Yeas and Nays: Democrats swamped with resumes. [Examiner]

Because once the blogosphere latches on to an issue, it becomes too important to be ignored: MORE »

* Short week, short review. First thing you need to know is: on Friday, Wal-Mart tried to answer the questions, “Why you acting shady? Why you ain’t callin’ me baby?”, by having Beyonce and Taylor Hicks perform at their shareholder meeting. CostCo admits they were served. MORE »

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We’ve been having a somewhat slow afternoon around here, so we’ll reach into our mailbag for some evergreen material: a Barney Frank anecdote.

Barney Frank may be gone from Congressional Catfight, but he has not been forgotten in these quarters. To the contrary, our correspondent this afternoon remembers his interactions with Congressman Frank from many years ago.

You can check out the full story after the jump. But don’t get your hopes too high; it’s pretty G-rated.

(Standard disclaimer: This account could be fictional, as some of you have claimed with respect to yesterday’s “Dustee Tucker at Starbucks” story. But it sounds pretty accurate to us — it’s not hard to imagine Barney Frank hitting on young men.)

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Oh CNN, what would we do on slow news days without you? MORE »

Slow news day so far — CNN is reporting on the prosecution of a German cannibal. So we bring you these two screen caps. This one’s from the New York Sun: MORE »