Are We 100% Sure This Is Satire?

Bush Tours America To Survey Damage Caused By His Disastrous Presidency

Ha! I Knew It!

Rachel Maddow, host of her own show on Air America Radio has spent the better part of the las two weeks filling in for Keith Olbermann on MSNBC's "Countdown" while he was off on vacation. Watching the show for the first couple of days was great fun. I find Rachel to be intelligent, articulate and a total political junkie (like me). But as the days racked up I couldn't help but wonder if this was more than just her filling in for a vacationing Olbermann. It started to feel more and more like a job interview. Turns out I might have been right.

Go Rachel!

I Thought I Smelled Something Funny...

Californians will be voting on two ballot measures this coming November which have piqued my interest.

The first is an amendment defining marriage as an act between one man and one woman. I'm not sure how this one even got on the ballot in the first place, given the general political attitudes in the state, but it's there. It will fail.

The second is a measure seeking to rename the Oceanside Water Pollution Control Plant the George W. Bush Sewage Plant. It may be a bit mean-spirited of me, but this makes me giggle. The measure will pass, and I absolutely cannot wait to hear the major media reporting on the topic.

We Don't Want Your Condoms. No Way, No How.

I'm pretty sure if you look up "petty bickering" in the [urban] dictionary you end up reading an article on how the South Korean metro authority has banned advertisements for Japanese condoms as a way of biting their collective thumb at Japan for the ongoing dispute over a couple of rather rocky, very uninhabitable-looking islands.

Let's hope this isn't contagious or the next thing you know Kentucky will be boycotting toothpicks from Tennessee due to a squabble over which state has the reddest rednecks.

Something Old Is New Again

We all have that one family member who is completely impossible to shop for. For me, it's my father. If yours is your mother may I suggest checking out Flatware Jewelry? Done up all purdy by a former coworker and all out creative genius, Flatware Jewelry is just that—jewelry made out of vintage flatware. It might sound a little strange, but check out www.flatwarejewelry.com or the acompanying Etsy store.

"Fabulous" doesn't even really begin to do it justice!

I haven't eaten in a week...

But I don't care! I love my iPhone 3G and I'm keeping it!

I don't really need to eat, do I?

Poke!

Anyone who is my friend on Facebook knows I'm a fan of SuperPoke. It's a guilty pleasure I suppose. (I put it somewhere between chocolate and new technology that comes with an Apple logo on the box.)  I do, occasionally, find it to be a bit lacking however.

Here are ten things I wish I could SuperPoke, but can't...

1. 1) I wish I'd asked you out sooner, but now it's too late.


2. 2) I'm only talking to you because your friend is cute.


3. 3) Whom do you think you're impressing with that photo?


4. 4) Please don't think I'm stalking you even though I kind of am.


5. 5) I got bored with you yesterday.


6. 6) Would you PLEASE stop cheating at Scrabulous!?


7. 7) Take off your pants.


8. 8) Stop talking. You're ruining the perception of yourself I'd built up in my head.


9. 9) Are you serious? Your profile pic. came straight from an Abercrombie ad.


10. 10) If you don't poke me back IN THE NEXT FIVE MINUTES I'll be forever convinced that you hate me and never talk to you again.

Dumbfounded...

That doesn't even begin to describe my emotional state right now. The Prime Minister of Iraq—a universally acknowledged sovereign nation—has asked that the United States agree to remove all troops from their nation, or at the very least agree to a timetable for that withdrawal. Seems pretty clear cut to me, but check out the videos below from "Hardball with Chris Matthews" and watch the Republican representative equivocate in every way he knows how.

Do you know what they call unwelcome or unwanted troops in a foreign nation? An occupying force. The United States has become an imperialist nation (most likely for the sake of a little oil), and every last drop of common sense has left this Administration.

P.S. - For those of you who are rapidly growing tired of my political rants, I promise to stop... Just as soon as there is world peace.