• Some people ask me why I love politics so much. Short answer: it's like comedy, but real, with higher stakes than any other game in the world.
  
  
• I think Hugo Chavez has dethroned Kim Jong Il in the "Hilariously Batshit Crazy Ruthless Dictator" category.
  
  
• LET IT GO. IT'S A BAD PUN. IT HAS NO RELEVANCE.
  
  
• A 10-year-old boy, on the subject of Condi Rice: “Her security might kill me if I ask one question or come two feet near her.”
  
  
• Math is fun.
  
  
• Faux pas! The chain of events:
  
  1. An Iraq War veteran speaks out against Rush's "phony soldier" comment.
  2. Rush explains that this veteran is like a suicide bomber, with the media "strapping those lies to his belt, sending him out via the media and a TV ad to walk into as many people as he can walk into."
  3. Iraq War veteran explains that the giant head wound you can see in his video is from an actual suicide bomber.
     
     
• Sometimes I feel like no one loathes Chuck Colson as much as I do. Thankfully, we have Sadly, No to point out that he's trying to claim the moral high ground by taking similar social stances to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
  
  
• When the Patriot Act came through, some of us said that it bypassed large and important parts of the constitution and could be used against innocent citizens at a whim with no one able to stop it. Some said the government would never do such a thing. Well, it turns out they did, and now there's a very exciting constitutional challenge.
  
  
• Sooner or later, I'm going to get really sick of listening to "Another One Bites the Dust." I'm sorry, Freddie, there's just too many senators retiring!
  
  
• Gullible children (with untreated ear infections performing acts of kindness on December 23 to make a last-minute good impression on Santa . . .
  
  
• See, socialized medicine isn't important.
  
  
• Rudy Giuliani makes baby Jesus cry.
  
  
• Important reminder! George W. Bush is still a dick!