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Tuesday, August 18, 2009

News The Morning News

Posted by Lindy West on Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 6:32 AM

Vote today, people of voting age and appropriate lucidity!

More Like SHAMid Karzai. BBC uncovers widespread fraud in Afghan election, is smug.

Psych! Obama drops ~~support for~~ insistence on a public option

"Is that the good Korea or the bad Korea?" Former South Korean president Kim Dae-jung dies at age 83.

"The West will try to prevent Russia from restoring its Soviet-era might." Suicide truck bomb kills 20 in Russia (and it's all our fault).

Hold Me! "Pakistan Taliban spokesman 'held'" by Pakistani officials.

"There's no monkeying around." Schools prepare for dirty monkey children covered in swine flu.

I Mean, Maybe Don't Leave Your Social Security Card at the 7-11. Florida man steals millions of identities.

E-mail Forwards from Your Grandma Will Never Be the Same. Reader's Digest goes tits-up.

"It's going to just be how we do it, Brooklyn-style." Spike Lee plans a big party for Michael Jackson's 51st birthd-zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

Way to Go, Mexican Drug Dealers! No, we totally weren't using that huge forest you burned down!

Blazin' Asians? Copies of Seattle Weekly used in Greenwood arson.

The Penis of a Famous Man. Now available for viewing. (Here: NSFW.)

"Oh! ye whose dead lie buried beneath the green grass; who standing among flowers can say- here, here lies my beloved; ye know not the desolation that broods in bosoms like these. What bitter blanks in those black-bordered marbles which cover no ashes! What despair in those immovable inscriptions! What deadly voids and unbidden infidelities in the lines that seem to gnaw upon all Faith, and refuse resurrections to the beings who have placelessly perished without a grave." A list of lost ships throughout history.

I Know I Posted This a Few Weeks Ago. But let's just watch it again. Because, come on.

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No public option? Great, now I can only look forward to healthcare being only a slightly smaller burden that I can't afford.

Posted by The CHZA on August 18, 2009 at 6:55 AM

Obama is my hero.

Posted by How about you? on August 18, 2009 at 6:58 AM

Sigh. He didn't drop "support" for the public option. He said that it's inclusion in the bill was on the negotiating table. Disappointing, yes, but no reason to distort facts.

Posted by Lee on August 18, 2009 at 7:05 AM

@3: amended.

Posted by Lindy West on August 18, 2009 at 7:11 AM

I like how they censored the swearing in the sex tape.

Posted by giffy on August 18, 2009 at 7:14 AM

@5: She was reading her credit card number over the phone.

Posted by Lee on August 18, 2009 at 7:19 AM

I guess Kim Dae-Jung was a misnomer. He should have been called Kim Dae-Old.

Posted by Fifty-Two-Eighty

on August 18, 2009 at 7:20 AM

The public option goes swirling down the toilet of history, and I'll vote Green Party next time, whether my vote is wasted that way or not.

Let the Repugs destroy what's left of our country, then we can sift through the rubble and see which cockroaches survive.

Posted by meowmeowkitty on August 18, 2009 at 7:36 AM

Will in Seattle said it's too late to vote today. I trust him.

IT'S TOO LATE TO VOTE! YOU BLEW IT!

Posted by Next Year? on August 18, 2009 at 7:45 AM

SHAMid Karzai...HILARIOUS

Posted by Mantooth on August 18, 2009 at 7:57 AM

What's the most corrupt branch of the U.S. government? Why, the U.S. Senate of course. Totally corrupted by the insurance vultures who feast on the corpses of Americans.

Posted by Vince on August 18, 2009 at 8:07 AM

The Seattle Weekly is good for something, at least.

Posted by Baconcat on August 18, 2009 at 9:18 AM

@Lindy, "Psych"? Cmon', it's SIKE!

Posted by meks on August 18, 2009 at 9:33 AM

It's worth noting that one of Readers Digest's few profitable ventures, Allrecipes.com, is based out of Seattle. While I'm sure taking a shit at your grandma's won't be the same without a stack of RD on the toilet tank, I would really hope that AR comes out of this okay, they employ 100+ people in the area.

Posted by Jessica on August 18, 2009 at 9:57 AM

@14

And in addition, has some delicious recipes.

Posted by vailripper on August 18, 2009 at 10:05 AM

Good riddance to Reader's Digest. It became a jocular family-friendly mouthpiece of the neo-cons back in the 70s. Ken Tomlinson knew how to present Robert Novak (douchebag) as non-partisan "American values" writing.

Posted by SchmuckyTheCat on August 18, 2009 at 10:20 AM

About Eric Dane's dick - no one, BUT NO ONE, ever records a sexual encounter without knowing that the video record could by some chance wind up in the wrong hands. And if you have celebrity, the odds go up exponentially.

The video is a career move.

Posted by Bauhaus I on August 18, 2009 at 12:01 PM

If pot was legal we'd still have that forest.

Posted by dwight moody on August 18, 2009 at 7:46 PM