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The leader of Australia’s Liberal party (”the opposition”), Troy Buswell, likes his staffer ladies. First, in late 2005, he “crawled around on his hands and knees in front of a former Liberal staffer before she left the job.” Then earlier this year he snapped open another staffer’s bra. But hey, you work in the Australian parliament, you know what you’re getting into! Yet there is no real excuse for Buswell’s coup de grace: sniffing some staffer gal’s chair, for its lady scent. MORE »

You’ve just written a book called Evaluating a Decade of World Bank Gender Policy: 1990-99. Problem: how to get people to read something called Evaluating a Decade of World Bank Gender Policy: 1990-99? Solution: subliminal cover photography. [Amazon]

* Most things in DC, including the housing market, look a lot like 1996. [Urban Trekker]
* Reviews of the D’vine Cravings Bakery and The Julie Sumner Salon and Spa, both opening in Shaw. [remaking le slum historique]
* A case for the Slack Key Guitar showcase at Wolf Trap. [Read Express]
* For sale: velvet painting of Karl Rove’s vagina neck. Father’s Day? [Metroblogging DC]
* On the tricky logistics of getting Arcade Fire tickets: “We here at The Upstate Life are more concerned about fucking up the image verification system than anything else. One slip of the finger can seriously push you back ten rows at the very least. Shit is harder to read than a tourist interpreting a DC cab zone map.” [The Upstate Life]

* Reliable Source: Dude who tried to buy the Nats promised a charitable donation he never sent. [WP]
* Yeas and Nays: Pat Boone at Heritage warns of coming Armageddon, suggest throwing Supreme Court into harbor… State Department links to Embassy websites all broken. [Examiner]
* Page Six: Lord only knows why, but Page Six asked Al Gore if he thinks Britney Spears should wear underwear. “No comment,” he said. [NYP]

Okay, this really doesn’t have much to do with politics or current affairs. Immigration, maybe? MORE »

•Talk about the law of unintended consequences! If it weren’t for the protestors, no one would have any idea that people are still producing The Vagina Monologues. [Washington Post]
•Take an English word that refers to any commonplace item, translate it into Spanish, and voila: awesome indie-rock band name. [Pygmalion In A Blanket]
•At long last, some grammar lessons we can get behind. [Craigslist]
•Uhm…look. I don’t care what the polls say. I ain’t gonna cuddle with him. [Washington Post]

Just to keep a minimal level of decorum, Wonkette would like to offer a Guide to Ineffectual Protesting, the non-partisan edition. Whether you want to kick some rag-head ass or abolish the Zionist neo-con cabal, we think you’ll find these suggestions make for less ridiculousness all around. MORE »