The Week In Wonkette

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December 23, 2005 05:01 PM

• President Bush sends out holiday greetings, reveals deeply-felt prejudices.

• Future Holidays of America announced: Stickmas comes every July, Abramoffukkah could come a LOT sooner.

• The Pentagon may or may not feel threatened by gay kiss-ins (Kisses-in? Is it like Attornies General?). We prefer to think that they ARE worried about them, because it makes things a lot more hilarious.

• Jeanine Pirro sets her sights a little lower; probably needs to set them lower still.

• Tom Delay spends a small fortune to bring GOP's message into the Republican-hostile environments of the filthy rich.

• Maureen Dowd: translated, tabularly.

• Darfur, Mr. President?

• Governor Bill Richardson's Presidential aspirations: doomed by his Uncle Bad Touch tendencies?— DCEIVER

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Yes, Trump Is Stealing Children. But You Can DO Something.

Send lawyers, lawyers, and money (plenty of guns out there already)

Post-Racial America

Fellow Wonkers, this last week of horror has been wearing on us all, because here we are in a world where the "president" of the United States has ordered that migrant children be taken away from their parents at the border, and is simultaneously proud of it (for his base) and cravenly blaming it on Democrats because even he knows it's morally reprehensible. But what the hell can we do about it, we are all keening, beyond calling our senators and representatives and posting sadness on Twitter, the latter of which is of dubious utility to anyone, and mostly depressing?

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Alan Dershowitz, A Schmuck

CHUTZPAH!

Russia

There are perks to being the only Harvard professor willing to shill for the Bush League Mussolini. Everyone else has to haul ass to the Fox studio and sit for hair and makeup. Not Alan Dershowitz! He just parks his laptop in Pee Wee's playhouse and Skypes in that rant. Is he even wearing pants? We hope never to find out!

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