“In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.”

- Napoleon Bonaparte

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I love that somebody has a sense of humor at the FOX network.  In a bow to the Bush administration, Friday’s first presidential debate on FOX will be preceded by “Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?.” Priceless.

Click the above link to test your wits in FOX’s online game, or submit your own questions for the show.

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In one of the greatest “WTF?” moments of the year, this email from a Dreamworks employee found its way onto teh Internetz. Holy. Guacamole.

(via Ben; via defamer)

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Watch out Stjeev, and all you other Warcrafters out there: the government is on to your fiendish schemes!  As Noah Shachtman reports in Wired:

“In a presentation late last week at the Director of National Intelligence Open Source Conference in Washington, Dr. Dwight Toavs, a professor at the Pentagon-funded National Defense University, gave a bit of a primer on virtual worlds to an audience largely ignorant about what happens in these online spaces. Then he launched into a scenario, to demonstrate how a meatspace plot might be hidden by in-game chatter.”

 Aside from the fact that this story comes straight out of a National Lampoon’s script, Noah somehow manages to find humor in the fact that Washington security types are seriously worried about what goes on in the subverisve WoW.  He ends with this choice quote:

“Toavs, for one, believes that spies will have to spend more time in virtual worlds like WoW, if they want to have a hope of keeping tabs on what goes on inside ‘em. Which means, some day soon, we might find secret agents in World of Warcraft, along with the druids and orcs and night elves.”

Beware ye computer geeks: behind every warlock and druid there might just be a fed…  

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George Washington, General Patton, and Trace Adkins (who?!) are the American Spirits: reminding flag-hating, baby-eating, Bible-smoking, healthcare-sharing Liberals what it means to be an American (gun ownership, poor education, xenophobia, and mindless jingoism?).

Michael Moore is kind of a douche.
But you guys are so not helping things.
F%#k you David Zucker.
F%$k you Dennis Hopper. You Judas.

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• Which Walter Reed was the photo backdrop for John McCain’s recent nomination acceptance speech?

• Which Walter Reed was supposed to be the backdrop?

(via L.A. Times, via Susan)

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This guy was driving in front of me today.

Thank God that guys at $10/hr who can’t spell ‘anthrax’ are looking out for us all.

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The UK’s Guardian Blog has put together a hilarious LOLBush compilation based around our commander in chief’s exploits at the Olympics.  A personal favorite:

(via Ben; Via Guardian)

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For those of you who haven’t been following this travesty of human intellect:
Last month, people find a dead animal on the beach near Montauk, New York. A local newspaper associates it with the nearby Plum Island Animal Disease Center and Mutant Production Facility, and people are still going apesh!t. There are a bazillion half-cocked theories: it’s a pig, it’s a capybara, it’s an escaped experimental mutant, it’s a hoax - with forums, rubber sculptures of it, and even a website dedicated to photo mash-ups of it.

Conclusions by the Blogadilla Wild Animal and Mutant Research Laboratories:
• It was found on a beach, and had been exposed to the Sun and seawater for an undetermined amount of time. These conditions can cause desiccation (drying out, mummification), bloating, and hair loss (this regularly happens to dead mice at my sister’s farm).

• Eyewitnesses report it is about the size of a cat. It is not a huge animal.

• The dentition (teeth) and skull are NOT consistent with a cat, and if the Newsday ‘2nd photo’ is genuine - its genitals are not consistent with a cat. Though it appears to be male.

• The dentition, skull, genitals, size, and general appearance COULD BE consistent with a dog. Remember, dogs vary greatly (think Pug and Greyhound).

• The dentition, skull, paws, size, and general appearance COULD BE consistent with a raccoon. According to The Independent, the town Natural Resources Director Larry Penny, and Bandit Trappings and Pest Control’s Doug Johnston identified it as a raccoon.

(via Susan, via Wonkette, via Gawker, via The Independent)

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This ain’t the first time this has happened.  Click this link to get the YouTube clip of Faux News’ newest gaffe.

(Keith Olbermann put me onto this — check out his show if you don’t already)

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