ALUMNI REPORT: Original Wonkette editor Ana Marie Cox (Class of ‘04-’06) and editor-after-that Alex Pareene (Class of ‘06-’07) have exciting new programming you should know about: Ms. Cox now hosts the Air America radio show The Inside Story (Saturdays at 9AM and Sundays at noon) while Mr. Pareene is now the curator of Everyone Is Trying To Kill You at True/Slant.

• NOT A BAD MOVE ACTUALLY: Former President George W. Bush missed both Obama and Cheney’s speeches today, because he was traveling to, let’s see, New Mexico, “where he is the keynote speaker Thursday night at a fund raising dinner for a scholarship program for students at Artesia High School.” [Political Ticker]

Oh look, former Wonkette “Pornographer to the Stars” and current Washington Times gossip reporter Liz Glover went on the MSNBC teevee this weekend during a rare furlough from her regular job selling knick-knacks in the ghetto for the glory & prestige of Rev. Moon. She and her “less eccentric” (media-trained) partner discuss things that you will not want to hear about at all, like fashion and the power-politics dynamic of the White House Correspondents Dinner, but it’s fun to watch Liz randomly dancing and putting on props and breaking her microphone completely. [YouTube]

These supposed Christians made a mockery of their faith in October, when they cavorted about this golden idol of mammon, the Molten Calf of Wall Street, because obviously the best way to head off a global recession is to sing God Bless America to a statue of an animal. What has happened since these idolaters demanded that Jesus fix the stock markets? MORE »

Lanny Davis was famous in 2008 for going on the teevee to defend his friends and clients, The Clintons, from the biases of the O-BOTS, and making a fool of himself. Once fired, he would go on Huffington Post or The Hill or Politico and write a column about how Obama was shameful and deserved no delegates because of Common Law. SO WHAT’S HE DOIN’ NOW? Oh just writing hilarious glowing reviews of his son’s book about basketball. It’s part of the Larry Bird-Magic Johnson-rivalry-as-culture-war athletic nonfiction subgenre that examines how white people hate black people and vice versa. MORE »

Ha ha ha, so incredibly stupid, but here we are, LAUGHING. If you’d like to know the context of this amazing still — and we certainly don’t — you can read more here. Something about a brawl at “Cheyney” University. Really. [Philadelphia Will Do, ABC 6 Philadelphia]

Remember last summer when “real conservatives” were pushing actor Fred Thompson to run for president so as to save the Republican party from the several gay divorcee Mormon liberals also running? And he was like “yeah sure, probably I’ll run or whatever” but didn’t really announce until September, on the Jay Leno program, during a Republican debate that he was too lazy to attend? Well it was during that “probably” time that he launched “imwithfred.com,” his proto-campaign website. And after everyone realized Fred Thompson was a lazy douche and couldn’t win anything, Fred’s people sold this domain name to a bunch of Italian gambling e-entrepreneurs, as you can see in the screen capture above. Vote “Italian Gamblers” for president, the real Republican’s alternative to WALNUTS! [I'm With Fred via The November Blog]

For anyone who has wondered what happened to adorable fluffy-haired ex-Rhode Island Senator Lincoln Chaffee after he lost his reelection bid and quit the Republican party, here’s your answer: he’s thinking about voting for a Democrat! The one called Obama! Then he will go back to cleaning out horse stalls and mourning the rightward drift of his former party. [Providence Journal]

“Don’t know if this might be interest to you, but some vaguely familiar looking guy in a suit handed me his business card on the street right near the White House yesterday and told me I looked great and to call him. It took me by surprise, so I googled the name on the business card — Jack Burkman– and the search turned up his picture on some media pundit site and an article from Wonkette about him propositioning girls on MySpace.com and also for being on the DC Madam’s list. What a creep! Just thought you might like to know he’s still at it (in front of the WH and in broad daylight, no less).”