Your cynic Greg Wasserstrom glocks hard on Gun Day 2008.

As you may have heard, today is the greatest day ever for our precious freedoms. The Supreme Court, in its infinite wisdom, has decided to strike down the District of Columbia’s ban on handguns, because nothing’s safer than a city where everybody’s packing heat. Will our fair city recapture its title of America’s Murder Capital? Will the Washington of tomorrow be a dark, distopian warzone? Probably! So to usher in this new era, my friend Lauren and I brushed up on our marksmanship at a Houston, Tex. shooting range. Pictures and more, after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »

I’m in an Apple Store in Houston, Tex. waiting for an appointment at the so-called Genius Bar to repair my ailing Mac Book Pro. And my iPhone’s acting up also. Here’s to hoping they give me a new one of both. So in the meantime, I used one of the store’s many computers to catch up on some headlines and I see that Charlie Black, a McCain staffer, observed today that maybe a couple of good old-fashioned terrorist attacks here in US soil would give the old man a little bit of a boost in the polls. Classy move, Charlie. But I’ll leave the outrage to other bloggers; I just wanted to point out a that just moments ago, when I was walking into this mall and before I read about this story, I just happened to be thinking about how the opposite seems to be true. 

Were there to be an attack or two before the election as there very well could be since our Homeland Security policy of chasing Mexicans back to Mexico has left us with dependence on sheer, dumb luck, it seems to me it would serve to point out the extent to which President Whatshisface’s national security policies aren’t working. Instead, ol’ WALNUTS! had better hope and pray that nothing fucking happens from now till the first Tuesday in November. Because if a bomb goes off on a New York subway train or inside a storage container at some port or another, he’s going to have an awfully hard time explaining that away to all those folks who voted for Bush last time and would rather gauge their eyes out with spoons than do it again.  Just saying.

McCain Adviser: Another Attack on U.S. Would Be “Big Advantage” For McCain [Huffington Post]

And bands of Angels sing thee to thy rest. O, Lord, could you not have taken Chris Matthews?

NBC’s Tim Russert Dead at 58 [MSNBC]
Tim Russert is Dead at 58 [New York Times]
Newsman Tim Russert Dies at 58 [CNN]
Tim Russert Dies of Heart Attack at Age 58 [Huffington Post] 

I have been refusing to participate in the ol’ political discourse for the past few weeks for the simple reason that I too was dying a long, slow death right alongside Hillary Clinton’s bid for the Democratic nomination. Just a second ago though, a politcal headline caught my eye for the first time in many, many weeks. It’s all over the internet in its various incarnations, perhaps you’ve seen it. Hillary Suspends Campaign, or HIllary Quits, if you’d like. Arianna Huffington is creaming her pants. And, frankly, so am I. The punditocracy will be restored to the status quo, finally sliding back to normal from this heightened state of retardation at which it’s been operating ever since Hills promised to campaign until two weeks after Doomsday. This thing has been over for two months, but finally – finally - ended today. So liberals take note: there is a God.

Ending her bid, Clinton Backs Obama [New York Times]

Yesterday was a great day for hilarious blogging, but I did nothing of the sort. Here’s a quick overview.

• Joe Biden calls them like he smells them. [Politico]
• California: soon to be the nation’s leader in gay divorce. [San Francisco Chronicle]
• John Conyers and his band of Merry Men on the Judiciary Committee are “closing in” on Karl Rove… not that they want to give the impression this is political or anything. [Politico]
• John McCain continues to to effectively run an insurgent campaign for president against himself. [Huffington Post]
• Report: New bin-Laden-Israel-birthday mix-tape ready to drop. [AP]
• House GOP tries to pass war off the Democrats. Both parties manage to accomplish nothing. Well done all around. [OpenLeft]