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The devout defenders of democracy (often by way of satire) over at Wonkette entered the fray of blogs posting Bush retrospectives last night with their rebuttal to a non-satirical Weekly Standard piece entitled “Bush’s Achievements: Ten things the president got right.”
Wonkette and The Weekly Standard highlight the same ten Bush policy points, but for obvious [...]

A few days back we informed you, dear readers, of some of the best briefcases to sport in these times of increased workplace mobility. Unfortunately, after sporting our much-adored bacon briefcase for a few days we noticed that people were rather taken aback by the strict business look of our bag.
Then it hit us, like [...]

With our media cycles accelerating to the point of time travel, some great 2009 lists caught our eye before the year even began. More risky than lists that summarize past events, we especially like prediction lists for offering a thrilling vision of what the future might look like. To get an idea of what the [...]

Ahead of Will Ferrell’s one-night-only Broadway performance of his famous George W. Bush impersonation this weekend, Listicles takes a look back at some of the greatest politician impersonations by Saturday Night Live performers and alums.
Although he’s much, much taller than W., Ferrell transcends physicality to really bring the outgoing President to life (because most of [...]

A staple of the holidays that nobody really understands (not even Wikipedia) but still tries to excel at, there’s something typically American about absurd gingerbread house design. Not only does it involve turning something joyful, silly and festive into a competition, it also means creating ever larger and sweeter fake homes out of candy, cookies [...]

With high-profile international shoe terrorism spiking over the weekend, in this installment of our weekly financial column Big Money Mondays we take a humbling look at the costs of this string of crimes that often go unreported (possibly because they are, more often than not, perpetrated by reporters).
Circa pre-recession times – but just in time [...]

Today, for the first time in weeks, George W. Bush edged his way back into the headlines with the announcement of his 14 latest pardons. They mostly cover drug charges, environmental infractions and white collar crime, three things the Bush clan has never seemed very averse to.
Most notable among these are pardons of erstwhile Fugees [...]

Continuing on the turkey theme from this morning’s icy post, the icy Alaskan queen Sarah Palin pardoned a turkey on camera today, only to chitchat about nothing while it was unceremoniously slaughtered in the background:

Understandably, people with feelings like Change.org’s animal rights blogger Stephanie Ernst are horrified by the video’s apparent disregard for animal suffering, [...]

The clever humorists at the Huffington Post draw our attention to this wonderful video of George W. Bush getting serial snubbed at a G20 photo-op during this week’s financial crisis meeting in Washington.

It’s pretty bad, but things could have gone much worse for America’s I-know-the-new-guy-is-much-cooler-but-I’m-still-President. At least he didn’t try initiating a high five only [...]