Via the Drudge Retort:

A Pennsylvania couple has run into trouble getting a birthday cake for their three-year-old son. ShopRite's bakery refuses to make the cake inscribed with the child's name: Adolf Hitler Campbell. "ShopRite can't even make a cake for a 3-year-old," said mother Deborah Campbell. "That's sad."This story actually made me tear up ( Read more... )

Holy shazam. To wild applause from an unsuspecting audience, an actor accidentally slit his throat on stage in Vienna this weekend when the prop knife he was supposed to use was swapped with a real one. Now they're trying to figure out is this really, really bad prop preparation . . . or attempted murder most foul?

Wow. Just . . . wow. I heard it from slit, who heard it from another:


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This totally made me cry:

Amanda Jones, 109, the daughter of a man born into slavery, has lived a life long enough to touch three centuries. And after voting consistently as a Democrat for 70 years, she has voted early for the country's first black presidential nominee.

A plot by two white supremacist skinheads has allegedly been foiled before it began, in which they planned to go on a killing spree of 88 people, decapitating 14 of them, starting with shooting up a predominantly African-American school and ending with an assassination attempt on Barack Obama, driving toward him shooting at him from the car windows ( Read more... )

Holy shazam, reading this story made me kind of teary.

Thanks to indrigirl for spreading the word.

Man, I only wish the rest of the campaign could have been like this. From the white-tie Al Smith dinner, enjoy the comedy stylings of senators John McCain and Barack Steve Obama:

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California Republican women's group distributes fake "Obama bucks" food stamps with a half-donkey Obama surrounded by watermelon, fried chicken and ribs. You stay classy, GOP.

Thanks to kaffee-spinne for the tip.

A Tennessee dad names his baby daughter Sarah McCain Palin to "get the word out" about his candidates of choice -- all behind the back of his wife, who thought they had agreed that the girl would be named Ava Grace.

"I took one for the cause," he said, no doubt anticipating his resulting asswhupping and possible divorce.

Things we knew but didn't want to know that we knew:

Those idiots we see at McCain rallies who suggest that Obama is a terrorist? They say these things because that's the McCain campaign is telling them exactly that, on the down-low. On the down-as-low-as-you-can-get ( Read more... )