HUD Hates Freedom
Thursday, March 29th, 2007
America’s proudest employees — the people of the Department of Housing and Urban Development — got a rude surprise yesterday when they tried to catch up on housing and urban development developments by reading Wonkette. MORE »
America’s proudest employees — the people of the Department of Housing and Urban Development — got a rude surprise yesterday when they tried to catch up on housing and urban development developments by reading Wonkette. MORE »









Everybody smart knows you shouldn’t do questionable things on your work computer, whether sending out resumes or posting Casual Encounters ads or basically anything you might have a hard time explaining to your boss.
Above, a graphic from John McCain’s website offering you a look at his coveted “bracket.” It’s apparently some sort of college basketball thing. It facilitates gambling, or something. 
Tom Vilsack, thought to be the only man in America brave enough to run for President, is, in fact, an Andy Kaufman-esque post-modern prankster, if his delightfully half-finished website is any indication. The former Iowa governor and John Goodman lookalike could not be reached for comment, because he is an elaborate trick involving mirrors and prosthetics.
Some time in the last two hours (we checked it during the press conference and it was fine), mysterious, incredibly dorky hackers “defaced” the personal blog of Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. After the embarrassingly nerdy credits and logo, there’s some text in what may be Farsi (but then, fuck do we know?).
We did as much as we possibly could to keep the Macaca story afloat, we admit (come on, it’s August), but we are still fairly amazed by the results of the Wall Street Journal/Zogby Interactive poll showing whatsisface (you know, the Dragnet guy) ahead of a man who, up until this month, had been thought of as a good bet for the GOP Presidential nomination. Sure, it’s by one point, but who knew veiled racism had political consequences! In Virginia! Now all the challengers with nothing to lose will be getting their own Indian kids.
The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, headed by, apparently, Leno’s staff writers and your grandfather, are proving themselves HIP and EDGY and WITH IT with a new website based on popular concept Snakes on a Plane (after, we hear, rejecting a site based on the film adaptation of Charles Bukowski’s Factotum, opening today in limited release). DSCC head Chuck Schumer, wearing a “Vote for Pedro” shirt on which “Pedro” had been crossed out and “Democrats” written beside it in Sharpie, said this half-assed grab for relevance would demonstrate conclusively that Democrats, lacking a basic sense of humor, have the decorum and gravitas necessary to lead the country through the War on Terror. 
Joe Lieberman’s campaign is an unstoppable rocket-sled of competence! His imaginary political party will surely dominate both Connecticut and national politics for years to come!
Condi, we know you’re trying to be tough and all, but we’re still pretty close to tagging this as “holy shit” — Sy Hersh just gets us a little skittish when he starts talking about “tactical nuclear weapons,” and, well, we already kinda know how your boss feels about “diplomacy.” So we urge you, Condi, to learn a little more about Iran before you take it to the Security Council — get to know them, you know? We think we have a lot in common, after all. Like, for example, they have 
