The new Wikipedia scanner thing has revealed what we pretty much always suspected: The world’s political, religious and media leaders are about seven years old, on average. By matching anonymous edits to Wikipedia entries back to the office computers where they originated, the scanner is able to match up particular changes to particular organizations. For example: MORE »

Something happened to somebody famous, so guess what happened on Wikipedia … that’s right, the person’s page was comically vandalized!

Nobody ever gets tired of a really good joke.

Ha ha ha ha, Scooter’s first name is “Irve.” MORE »

* If a Presidential campaign raises more money when the candidate doesn’t show up, should it exist? [Election Central]
* Dick Cheney shops for his extradition-free retirement pad. [HuffPo]
* Top Pentagon brass craft backup plan for an Iran invasion — codename: golf course. [American Leftist]
* Bill O’Reilly enjoys being called “a barbarian” publicly, “Barbara” privately. [C&L]
* West Virginia congressmen love to dig on swine. [Hill Blog]
* The Kucinich campaign is nothing but a song and dance show. [PrezVid]
* Campaign mangers to tire of yelling, “Get the intern to fix the fucking wiki,” before 2008 even begins. [Tech President]

Depressed Bush lovers may only make up about 28% of an already dumb population, but that’s still a lot of people — 60 million of the country’s 217 million adults. That’s exactly the population of France!

Just like we now require a “rock music” industry for Christian kids and handicapped parking spaces for the crippled, we also need parallel-world media for Bushbots. They’ve got a new comedy political show that boldly never makes a joke about the president, and now they’ve got their own “Conservapedia” that won’t allow foreigners and science to muck up The Truth. Come see what makes them differently abled, after the jump.

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Ted Stevens has a brand new bag: censoring your series of tubes. MORE »

* Iowa voters get high off the smell of their own farts, pretend to listen to what Hillary Clinton has to say. [WP, NYT, WSJ, USAT]
* Mike Hukabee starts his Presidential campaign by getting Tim Russert to admit he’s digging his grave, “with a knife and fork.” [WP, NYT]
* Giant q-tip is inserted into the Congressional earmark culture to clean out the “pornography” and “terrorists.” Staffers keep their fingers crossed for a furlough day. [WP]
* Loving father John Negroponte is going from one job he doesn’t need to another. [WP]
* Handful of movie stars, handful of hippies were all that showed for weekend’s peace march. [CNN]
* Not just New Orleans: levees are fucked nationwide. [USAT]
* Federal judges just a bunch of wikilectuals. [NYT]

The National Institute on Drug Abuse, one of our nation’s most inept and evil agencies, is waging a war — a war on Wikipedia! MORE »

We just needed the dates of the Constitutional Convention. Wikipedia’s usually okay for that kind of thing, right? MORE »

The only website that provides as many consistent user-generated laffs as the Craigslist is, of course, the Wikipedia. Thanks to the reader who sent in this catch, and who’s also presumably responsible for it. MORE »

Here’s your potential new Secretary of Defense. Thanks again, Citizen Media! MORE »