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What’s the latest news from America’s favorite man-made disaster, Afghanistan? At least two dozen people were killed at the polls during the latest and almost certainly rigged parliamentary elections. Officials are already reporting “sales of fake voter cards printed in Pakistan, intimidation by local power barons and the absence of a national voter list.” Meanwhile, [...]
Germany and France will help out Greece so it does not have to default on its debt, which it is apparently on the verge of doing (?). [New York Times] According to the impartial observer Iran, Iran has successfully enriched uranium. [Washington Post] It is also the anniversary of Iran’s 1979 revolution, and there just [...]
The government will run into trouble with its loans once the Fed raises interest rates and might even lose its new 7-bedroom townhouse in Phoenix. [New York Times] Pedophiles keep molesting children, despite ankle monitor tracking devices things that strongly suggest they consider doing otherwise. [Washington Post] Short-term radiation leak at Three Mile Island this [...]
Watch Sarah Palin go on and on about Iraq in response to the question of what the US should do about Ahmadinejad and a nuclear Iran. She says “Iraq” twice, which, according to reality, is different from Iran, the country the Iranian President is the president of. Andrew Sullivan this fact’s already been checked! [the [...]
Democrats and Republicans continue to compete over who can cater more to Big Senior re: possible Medicare cuts. [AP] Obama spent all day yesterday begging the U.N. to agree to a resolution that would get Iran and North Korea and others like them in such big trouble if they crossed their fingers behind their backs [...]
The teevee shows Mad Men and 30 Rock LITERALLY WON the Emmy Awards last night. [New York Times] President Obama will visit the UN for the first time next week, as will, presumably, some very excited sixth graders from North Jersey. Both will be avoiding Ahmadinejad and Gaddafi. [Times Online] The jealous gossips of the [...]
Happy New Year (or “Rosh Hashanah”) to all Wonkette’s Jewish friends! Traditionally one rings in the new year by dipping apples in honey and telling one’s parents that of course, one is absolutely going to synagogue tonight. [Washington Post] An alternative way to celebrate: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced earlier today that the Holocaust was a [...]
That guy, Obama, is still as popular as ever, despite the global pandemic and personally orchestrating 9/11 2: 2 Fast 2 Furious. [Andrew Sullivan] Recalled children’s toy Michael Steele has been walking around mumbling that Specter’s “mama didn’t raise him” in a certain way. [CNN Political Ticker] If Texas were to undergo some sort of [...]
Here’s Sarah Palin, dressed like an extra from Bonfire of the Vanities, talking about Alaskan national snowgames. [Matthew Yglesias] Carly Fiorina has been disappeared, and thus joins the ranks of every single person and tanning machine in Alaska plus one Ohioan teleprompter. [Daily Kos] McCain confirms his status as forgotten, tragic Hemingway character as he [...]
