This whole story about the Whitehouse party-crashers has got to have the all-time world record for highest coverage-to-importance ratio by now, right? I don't even watch the news all that much and I'm sick of it. I just watched some idiot senator from New York rant on Fox News* for a full five minutes about how The Administration Needs To Accept ( Read more... )

I usually try not to delve into politics here.

But Sarah Palin needs to shut the fuck up with this idiotic Alaska-is-close-to-Russia schtick. Really. Immediately. (A hat tip to aibretty , who's got the latest video on his blog.)

To wit: As everyone with a high-school level education knows, the part of Russia that's close to Alaska is mostly sparsely- ( Read more... )