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Cool. Looks great. Hey, here's a completely unrelated question: do you guys ever think about just, you know, like, giving up completely? As if perhaps all of the hard work of trying to conceptualize…   Read Story »
Oh man, Anthony Weiner, you guys! He should change his name to The Best Weiner, am I right? Why wouldn't he? There's nothing gross or weird or having unlimited potential to be misconstrued about that…   Read Story »
The soon to be former governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger, will be the subject of a comic book about a superhero named The Governator. Cool. Cool guy. Cool governor. Cool character. Cool…   Read Story »
Former Real World housemate and current Republican representative for Wisconsin, Sean Duffy, is taped complaining that he can barely survive on his $174,000 a year salary. "Go fuck yourself, sir,"…   Read Story »
In the video posted after the jump, Representative Alan Hale from Montana's 77th district, gives a brief speech on the state house floor to argue in favor of repealing ALL of Montana's D.U.I. laws.…   Read Story »
Eesh. KIDS THESE DAYS! Back when I was his age we were too busy hauling coal (basically!) to let our Tea Party parents force us to record songs about their poorly informed belief system. I do like…   Read Story »
Yiiiiikes. Also: what? These unmoored political action committee ads are always so confusing. Let's pretend for a second that you see this and you AREN'T bothered by how racist and insane it is. What…   Read Story »
Glenn Beck's contract at FOX News expires at the end of this year, and it is being widely rumored that it won't be renewed. Awww. End of an era! This guy knows what I'm talking about. Luckily for us…   Read Story »
Ron Schiller is/was the senior vice president for fundraising at NPR. (He is leaving very soon, and maybe now even sooner, for an arts funding job in Colorado, according to the NPR website.)…   Read Story »
Apparently, today is Old People Complaining About Things in a Mildly Hilarious Way Day, the most wonderful day of the year, I'm sure. Earlier, of course, we had Rosina Kovar bemoaning the state of…   Read Story »