Perhaps A Lame Online Stunt Will Bring Serious Attention To A Boring European Political Crisis
Tuesday, September 18th, 2007
Have you heard of Belgium? It’s apparently a little country somewhere in Europe. Belgium used to own Africa and invented chocolate and/or french fries and has problems with UFOs and pedophiles. You may have even unwittingly visited Belgium, if you’re a member of the European Union government or maybe traveled from England to “the continent” by boat in the days before the Chunnel train. To this day, some French people travel through Belgium by train on their way to get their heroin in Amsterdam. MORE »
If you’re having a hard time choosing a Republican presidential candidate to support, maybe a tiny creepy talking seemingly-alive little Mitt Romney walking around your computer screen would help with that decision. 
As Walnuts McCain was declaring victory in the glorious never-ending war on the other candidates, the old dude from the TV was announcing that he’d recently opened a new website, called “I’m With Fred,” where “Fred” fans can give him money and try to tell your friends and family to give him money. 
We have nothing to add to this post on Sam Brownback’s official campaign blog, other than BROWNBACK ‘08!
Hot journalism-job gossip from The Politico’s newsroom: If you are a “twenty-something” reporter, you can clean out your desk. Don’t forget the “iPod” or whatever! 
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. 
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. 
The big primaries are only 10-1/2 months away, huzzah! As we wait almost a whole year for anything to happen, are there other ways to compare and contrast the major candidates and find out WHO WILL WIN? Maybe we could closely examine their websites and traffic patterns!
