• Ken Lay predicted his own death! Just like Biggie Smalls and Martin Luther King! [Consumerist]

• Unless he didn’t, and is in Fiji right now. One of the two. [Dealing In Subterfuges]
• The name of the Dong. [Andrew Sullivan]
• We must reduce our dependence on foreign sources of kimchi! [Rude Cactus]
• Harold Ford of Tennessee - corruption so deep even Reuters can’t find it. [Sweetness & Light]
• James Wolcott is all about red meat and illegal fur - but draws the line at Honduran hookers. [James Wolcott]
• The lower you go in the Hookergate investigation the shadier the characters get. [TPM Muckraker]

The roving Ms. Wonkette checks in with a dispatch from the orgy of elite media self-congratulation known as the American Society of Magazine Editors conference at a lavishly appointed beachside Puerto Rican resort.

Fresh off the craps table (where he apparently won $200 last night), McCain sat with Newsweek editor Evan Thomas for a 30 minute tongue bath. I mean interview.

Thomas led with a question about the disastrous unintended effects of campaign finance reform. Oh, we kid: Actually, he asked if McCain was running for president. And then McCain said, “Yes.”

Kidding again. He trotted out Mo Udall’s chestnut on the issue (Google it if you like, it was too much of a cliche to write down). The dogged Thomas countered with “Do you want to be president?”

McCain: “Of course, I want to be emperor.”

More of the funny man love fest after the jump.

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