In Soviet Russia, Birth Certificate Shows You!

I wonder if you can get perestroika from touching?

  • Oh no, looks like another time-out for Vice President Joe Biden as President Obama has to call home, all the way from Russia, and say, “No, Joe, it is not okay if Israel just bombs Iran whenever.” (CNN)
  • Apparently Russians don’t really care about our Michelle Obama so much. For some odd reason (sexism???), they’re all much more interested in her husband. Huh. And why doesn’t the Russian media care about “the coral-hued coat and Narciso Rodriguez dress that Obama had on as she stepped off Air Force One into an unseasonably cold July afternoon,” like your American press? (Washington Post)
  • New Hampshire Attorney General Kelly Ayotte is resigning in order to run for the Senate, something which she explicitly said she would not do when she was reappointed in March. Oh well! (Manchester Union Leader)
  • Your American Bar Association strongly recommends that Sonia Sotomayor be appointed to the Supreme Court. Why is the American Bar Association so “reverse racist” towards white people? (CBS News)
  • Alberto Gonzales, do you recall who he is? Beginning this fall, Gonzales will be teaching at Texas Tech University. Course topics include selective memory, the finer points of waterboarding, and how to harass your predecessor when he’s in the hospital. (Austin American-Statesman)
  • Remember that time the Minnesota National Guard stormed Capitol Hill and forcibly removed Norm Coleman from office, replacing him with Al Franken? So does Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC). (P.S.: What is wrong with you, South Carolina voters?) (TPMDC)