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Tue August 09, 2011
Source     Fark Headline Comments
(Some Guy) Unlikely UK police blame London riots on Grand Theft Auto and lack of a Pac Man alternative  (reghardware.com) (68)
(Salon) Scary Today's frightening news: Rick Perry is the GOP frontrunner. You know the guy, the one who talked about secession and has neo-Confederate leanings  (salon.com) (137)
(CNN) Asinine Attention in the press room: The President will make a brief statement about the market but does not have time for questions. Also, a schedule change. The President will depart the White House at noon for a fundraising event  (politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com) (179)
(The New York Times) Sad After 200 years, House kills congressional page program. Members now have to be content with only screwing their constituents  (nytimes.com) (42)
(Daily Mail) Interesting Headline: "Sarah Palin a grandma again! Son Track's wife of three months gives birth to baby girl". Every baby's a miracle  (dailymail.co.uk) (159)
(Think Progress) Sick Rick Perry's Prayerapalooza wasn't the largest gathering in Houston last weekend  (thinkprogress.org) (97)
(The Raw Story) Obvious Sixty-two percent of Americans think the debt ceiling deal helps the rich and hurts the poor. Democrats scrambling to not take advantage of this  (rawstory.com) (60)


Mon August 08, 2011
(Infrastructurist) Cool Are increased gas taxes the answer to economic recovery?  (infrastructurist.com) (106)
(Slate) Sad Why Michele Bachmann's hypocrisy doesn't matter  (slate.com) (119)
(Gawker) Ironic Megyn Kelly verbally destroys teatard for making fun of her socialized medicine benefits. Stay tuned tomorrow when Megyn pillories others who benefit from similar government regulations  (gawker.com) (191)
(Talking Points Memo) Obvious GOP determined not to raise taxes on news that S&P downgraded the country's bond rating because of GOPs refusal to increase taxes  (tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com) (151)
(Wonkette) Dumbass Pro-family-values WI GOP county chair wrecks her car while drunk. The passengers (her three children) were not hurt  (wonkette.com) (166)
(National Review) Followup Dear President Obama: How come "collossal" miscalculations in budget forecasting only reflect a "stunning lack of knowledge about basic U.S. fiscal budget math" when somebody else does it?  (nationalreview.com) (304)
(Some Guy) Fail Mike Huckabee is fat again - must have broken his bootstraps he used to lose the weight initially  (refusetoregain.com) (71)
(AP) Asinine Barney Frank, architect of the Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac debacle, steps up and accepts responsiblity for his part in the US credit disaster. Just kidding--he blames the military  (hosted.ap.org) (233)
(My Fox NY) Obvious Taxing the snot out of the rich will fix our problems. Just ask New York  (myfoxny.com) (338)
(Salon) Ironic Mitt Romney has conveniently forgotten that a relative of his died in 1963 after having a botched illegal abortion  (salon.com) (110)
(LiveLeak) Video "Well the Donner Party is a dog that can bark at a pine cone for 9 days and not get tired" (some Not safe for work language)  (liveleak.com) (57)
(Politico) Hero "If we had listened to the tea party, we would have $4 trillion in reduction in debt over time and not been downgraded. Thank God they're here"  (politico.com) (320)
(Oregon Live) Sad Former Sen. Mark Hatfield of Oregon dies at age 89. Tributes pour in from Democrats, Republicans, McCoys  (oregonlive.com) (20)
(USA Today) Asinine Hollywood is out of ideas, so the White House steps in with top-level access to bin Laden raid details for movie to be released in...oh, that's convenient...October 2012  (content.usatoday.com) (184)
(Politico) Dumbass Fark-ready lede: "Here's a no brainer: Potential candidates for governor shouldn't be seen posing with former porn stars at pantless bars"  (politico.com) (37)
(Slate) Scary Teabaggers applaud and cheer at the news of US credit downgrade (video)  (slate.com) (269)
(Rasmussen Reports) Interesting Proof positive that the voters are the smartest people in America: only 14% believe government has the consent of the governed, 62% doubt the trillion-dollar cuts just negotiated will ever happen  (rasmussenreports.com) (57)
(National Review) Asinine That Dems are saying 'Tea Party downgrade' with straight faces bespeaks either an unshakable contempt for the mind of the American voter or an as-yet unplumbed capacity for Democratic self-delusion  (nationalreview.com) (364)
(Talking Points Memo) Obvious July 27: Tea Party leaders: "If default hurts the Tea Party, so be it." Tea Party today: It's all Obama's fault  (tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com) (321)
(National Journal) Obvious "That's the way they try to marginalize you: If you're not for the grand deal, you're a right-wing nut," says someone who looks like a duck, quacks like a duck  (nationaljournal.com) (149)
(CNSNews) Sappy Obama Administration to scrap testing requirements because too many students falling  (cnsnews.com) (169)
(Salon) Scary Today's hot parenting question: What if my daughter grows up to be Republican?  (salon.com) (207)
(CNN) Scary "The filibuster, historically employed about once a decade, is now a routine procedure that allows the minority to thwart the will of the majority. In 2009, Senate Republicans filibustered a stunning 80% of major legislation"   (globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com) (185)


Sun August 07, 2011
(Philly) Obvious Poor schoolchildren are being left behind  (philly.com) (101)
(Economist) Strange Tea Party leader says we should be spending more taxpayer dollars to fund massive government projects to create jobs. Really, he said this  (economist.com) (157)
(ABC News) Unlikely Congress has a shot at passing job-creating bill. Let's see if they can get this one right  (abcnews.go.com) (84)
(Twitpic) Scary Newsweek gives us all prime nightmare fuel with their latest cover  (twitpic.com) (228)
(Michelle Malkin) Fail Obama's Department of Innovation literally cannot do anything. Look at the logo to see why  (michellemalkin.com) (167)
(American Spectator) Stupid The fact that Google honored Lucille Ball on her 100th birthday, but not Reagan on his, means that Sarah Palin is automatically president and socialism-herpderp-wharrgarbl   (spectator.org) (139)
(Some Guy Mad as Hell) Obvious The Kick Them All Out Project. 'Politicians are diapers. They both need changing often and for the same reason' - Mark Twain  (kickthemallout.com) (229)
(Washington Post) Sad And suddenly it all makes sense  (washingtonpost.com) (389)
(Fox News) Followup Fox News would never report the name of the mystery pro Romney PAC donor, would they?  (foxnews.com) (210)
(Des Moines Register) Amusing Today's Pearl of Wisdom from Rick Santorum: "Liberals care more about caribou than about people who are struggling with health care problems"   (caucuses.desmoinesregister.com) (169)
(Politico) Obvious "Democrats push young politicians out front." Just in time for the bus  (politico.com) (53)
(CBC) Spiffy While Congress fights over raising taxes on everything, the British Government announces cuts to taxes on beer  (cbc.ca) (37)


Sat August 06, 2011
(National Review) Unlikely "Democrats like to allow women to have abortions, but not much else." So Republicans are now the women's lib party? Really?  (nationalreview.com) (201)
(Some Guy) Obvious Of course Obama partisans would like to pin the president's troubles on Bush. But they should get their facts straight first  (washingtonexaminer.com) (114)
(Yahoo) Dumbass S&P: The US downgrade was due to lack of revenue. GOP candidates: Obama socialism spending-cuts herpity derp  (news.yahoo.com) (355)
(Economist) Asinine "The FAA's long-term funding bill expired in 2007. Since then Congress has passed, with little fuss, 20 stopgap bills, each lasting a few months. This time round, politicians could not agree on seemingly minor provisions"  (economist.com) (102)
(CNN) Amusing Not news: GOP wants Tim Geithner's head. Fark: Wants to replace him with Donald Trump  (politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com) (119)
(WorldNetDaily) Followup The folks at Esquire are still so busy laughing at WND's lawsuit--the one about Esquire's fake article about WND's fake book--that they can't respond to it  (wnd.com) (75)
(Slate) Obvious Whatever you want to call the bad economy, it's here to stay for a long time due almost entirely to the "all spending is evil, we must protect the rich" mantra of the far right  (slate.com) (330)
(AZCentral) Spiffy ICE abruptly terminates all Secure Communities agreements with states. Say they don't need no stinkin agreements to run the program and deport illegal immigrants arrested by local authorities  (azcentral.com) (48)
(KnoxNews) Followup Tennessee legislator who complained about satirical Obama mints now has his own mints: Joe Armstrong Strong Arm Censored Mints  (knoxnews.com) (33)
(Salon) Interesting Not only is Obama not liberal, he's also not weak. In fact, he's a right-wing FDR, more powerful than Ronald Reagan. Seriously  (salon.com) (231)
(Fox News) Fail Hey Fox, that's not fair, Fark is where we go for wildly inaccurate headlines  (nation.foxnews.com) (130)
(The Hill) Fail April 19: "Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner said Tuesday there is 'no risk' the U.S. will lose its top credit rating"  (thehill.com) (423)
(Des Moines Register) Fail Republican presidential candidate: "I qualify to be at this debate." Fox News: "No you don't." Candidate: "Why?" Fox News: "Because you're openly gay"  (caucuses.desmoinesregister.com) (132)


Fri August 05, 2011
(Talking Points Memo) Asinine Mike Huckabee makes educational 9/11 cartoon for children. Guess who killed Bin Laden in his version. Go on, guess  (tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com) (172)
(Wall Street Journal) Asinine S&P Debt downgrade warning also contained mathmatical error, of $2 Trillion. Good to know the people who assign credit ratings are up on their math  (blogs.wsj.com) (761)
(Politico) Sad Pro-Perry voter: "It takes balls to execute an innocent man"  (dyn.politico.com) (118)
(Media Matters) Obvious For once we can all agree with Rush Limbaugh  (mediamatters.org) (72)
(Talking Points Memo) Obvious WI Governor Walker: Recall results are "out of our hands". Translation: "The fix is in"  (tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com) (99)
(SLTrib) Fail Park City mayor gave First Lady Michelle Obama illegal booze when she came to Utah  (sltrib.com) (107)
(The New York Times) Dumbass New poll shows that Americans want a reasonable, down-to-earth government swarming with magic robots  (nytimes.com) (88)
(Huffington Post) Asinine Taxed Enough Already...no, wait I meant, not taxed at all. In 2009, 1,400 US millionaires paid no taxes. Oh yeah, unemployment at 9.1%  (huffingtonpost.com) (408)
(Des Moines Register) Stupid As the stock market continues its free fall into financial chaos, Newt Gingrich decides it's a good time to announce he's in favor of less Wall Street regulations. "You have a left-wing radical who wants to raise taxes"   (caucuses.desmoinesregister.com) (56)
(Washington Post) Asinine Defense Secretary: If we don't make drastic cuts to Social Security and Medicare, how will we afford to fight a half-dozen wars at once?  (washingtonpost.com) (318)
(LA Times) Followup Did Mitt Romney accept a million dollar donation from the Iranians and the Chinese? Inquiring minds want to know  (latimes.com) (180)
(RealClearPolitics) Fail John Kerry says that the media should stop covering the "absurd notion" that there are political ideas other than liberalism  (realclearpolitics.com) (238)
(Fox News) Amusing Roseanne Barr announces she's is running for President. Unlike some of her competition, Roseanne actually has experience as a professional comedian  (nation.foxnews.com) (114)
(JSOnline) Obvious WI Republican Senator Dale Shultz claims Walker 'decoyed' him so he wouldn't submit amendment to, voted against budget repair bill  (jsonline.com) (76)
(Some Stranger) Scary Q: What if the New Deal never happened? A: We're about to find out  (slog.thestranger.com) (190)
(NewsBusters) Amusing Maureen Dowd's latest anti-Tea Party rant is as original as all of the other fiction about zombies and vampires from the past few years  (newsbusters.org) (80)
(Business Insider) Obvious Jay Carney states "The White House Doesn't Create Jobs", which should become a GOP meme in the 2012 campaign  (businessinsider.com) (310)
(Post-Gazette) Unlikely Poland's going through politicians and military leaders like Spinal Tap through drummers  (post-gazette.com) (20)
(Talking Points Memo) Interesting Who won the debt ceiling battle? Obama's polling has stayed the same but Congress has the highest disapproval ratings ever  (tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com) (129)
(Daily Mail) Misc Britain cutting income taxes for the rich. Let's watch  (dailymail.co.uk) (184)
(CNN) Obvious American Psychological Association says it's crazy we haven't legalized same-sex marriage everywhere yet  (cnn.com) (398)


Thu August 04, 2011
(Talking Points Memo) Sad Wis. GOPer on her recall: Wait guys, uh, if you don't like what we did, can you pretty please with a cherry on top wait for 2012 instead?   (tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com) (230)
(Crooks & Liars) Obvious Hey look, everyone, Rush Limbaugh is being a jerk again  (crooksandliars.com) (141)
(Fox 5 Vegas) Interesting Reid to Boehner: Come back from vacation and put 74,000 Americans back to work  (fox5vegas.com) (72)
(Huffington Post) Obvious "RNC is suddenly upset at Obama for proposing Medicare cuts that the RNC wants"  (huffingtonpost.com) (84)
(ABC News) Obvious "First Lady Says Obama's Gray Hair 'Proof' He Deserves Second Term". Subby is glad that there's definitive proof  (blogs.abcnews.com) (61)
(Talking Points Memo) Asinine Breaking: Democrats still have no spine  (tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com) (108)
(Balloon Juice) Spiffy Chris Christie about to be ejected, er, dragged slowly, from the GOP  (balloon-juice.com) (148)
(Talking Points Memo) Amusing Ever have one of those nights where you wake up with a hangover and $1 million worth of architecture contracts?   (tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com) (24)
(Washington Post) Amusing "Today, the U.S. defense establishment is the world's largest socialist economy"  (washingtonpost.com) (97)
(The Daily Beast) Obvious Conservative myth: Obama has raised taxes. Liberal reality: Obama has cut taxes   (andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com) (392)
(The Onion) Amusing Obama turns 50 despite Republican opposition  (theonion.com) (58)
(Some Guy) Fail Really? A writer for the New Yorker wrote a gripping story that turns out to be half made up? I'm shocked, SHOCKED I tell you  (registan.net) (52)
(Washington Post) Ironic We'd have 50% fewer abortions if only the same nuts that are against abortion weren't also against contraceptives  (washingtonpost.com) (604)
(Huffington Post) Fail Obama sides with big oil, sidelines government scientist  (huffingtonpost.com) (76)
(The Daily Beast) Followup Pelosi's Battle Plan: Eat more chocolate  (thedailybeast.com) (18)
(Philly) Followup This earmark, like all earmarks, was perfectly legal, but it just might leave a mark  (philly.com) (10)
(Slate) Strange Who is behind the the mysterious corporate donation of $1 million to pro-Romney Super PAC?  (slate.com) (70)
(Townhall) Obvious How unnecessary regulations hurt the economy, particularly among minorities  (townhall.com) (116)
(Politico) Obvious "Only one party stands committed to listening to the American people." Trolls, write down the new talking point  (politico.com) (44)
(Right Wing News) Dumbass The top 10 most obnoxious quotes from Bill Maher  (rightwingnews.com) (112)
(National Post) Amusing Stephen Harper likes brrrrraaaaainnnns   (news.nationalpost.com) (61)
(WorldNetDaily) Interesting Facebook -- the largest open intelligence source and scam since... well, Facebook  (wnd.com) (17)
(Townhall) Obvious Reagan cut taxes. Obama increased them. Reagan slowed down the rate of domestic spending. Obama put it on steroids. Reagan continued to deregulate the economy. Obama imposed billions of dollars' worth of new regulations  (townhall.com) (125)
(EFF) Scary If geek groups are having conventions to see who is the best at hacking your voting machines, you might have a probem  (eff.org) (83)
(CNSNews) Obvious The fantasy: Increasing taxes on the rich will solve out debt problems. The reality: Taxing every $250K + household 100% will net the federal government 141 days of operating capital  (cnsnews.com) (306)
(Some Guy) Interesting Conservative David Frum has realization that left wing critics have been far more accurate than his conservative peers about the debt crisis  (frumforum.com) (59)
(Huffington Post) Dumbass Stop me if you've heard this one before: The head of the IMF is in trouble with the law  (huffingtonpost.com) (13)
(Reason Magazine) Obvious States Rights, States Rights, States Rights, teh buttsex? Federal law, Federal law, Federal law  (reason.com) (103)
(KnoxNews) Dumbass Breathmints called Obama "DisapointMINTS" pulled from University shelves after Congressman (D)umbass complains that they are "offensive"  (knoxnews.com) (103)
(Washington Times) Stupid Butthurt reporter wants everyone to know what he thinks Obama should do with his birthday gifts   (communities.washingtontimes.com) (105)
(Yahoo) Scary Grab your tube top, and squeeze into that spandex. It's official, the US is now trailer park trash  (news.yahoo.com) (112)
(Google) Interesting Glenn Beck relocating family to Dallas. Compared to most Texans, Beck will now seem soft-spoken and unopinionated  (google.com) (50)
(The Daily Caller) Dumbass Al Gore calls for the overthrow of the United States government  (dailycaller.com) (239)


Wed August 03, 2011
(Media Matters) Dumbass Spongebob Squarepants is the Al Gore of the ocean  (mediamatters.org) (80)
(Daily Kos) Scary DailyKos uses crosshair imagery in a story about congressional Republicans, meaning of course they support crazy people killing them since there is no way this could be a metaphor  (dailykos.com) (242)
(YouTube) Video Subby doesn't always agree with his representative, but at least he can explain the debt situation to within a 5-year-old's mental capacity. Video must be for his fellow Congressmen  (youtube.com) (102)
(Huffington Post) Interesting An explanation why Mitch McConnell has a big shiat-eating grin these days while everyone else has their own special brand of butt hurt  (huffingtonpost.com) (69)
(The Nation) Fail "Don't eat the candy. It will taste much better if you wait." And so begins the young Ohioans' lesson on the only method of pregnancy or disease prevention that they will learn during their high school sex ed class  (thenation.com) (144)
(Think Progress) Followup Mitch McConnell admits taking hostages in the debt ceiling fight. Which is totally not something terrorists would ever do to get their way  (thinkprogress.org) (187)
(Some Guy) Obvious HuffPo forced to apologize to Breitbart, but unless the mods are asleep you probably won't see this. If you do, story to the left and liberal derping to the right  (bigjournalism.com) (266)
(Gateway Pundit) Interesting Obama hires non-union crew for his 50th birthday party. To be fair, he had to go non-union or else the Republicans wouldn't give him any presents  (thegatewaypundit.com) (166)
(Wall Street Journal) Ironic The last time Bill Clinton tried to play the race card, it blew up his wife's primary campaign in South Carolina  (online.wsj.com) (104)
(Huffington Post) Stupid Not News: Pat Buchanan doesn't like the president. News: Refers to him as "Boy." Fark: On MSNBC. TotalFark: During Al Sharpton's show  (huffingtonpost.com) (433)
(The Atlantic) Hero Gallup survey shows Muslim-Americans more likely to say targeting and killing civilians is always wrong than any other American religious group  (theatlantic.com) (333)
(Some Guy) Obvious The US slashing spending in a weak economy is making markets nervous for some damn reason or other  (business.inquirer.net) (305)
(Some Blog) Followup Incorrect election date on WI fliers was just a typo. Presumably, so were the incorrect address, the fake government office, and the fact that they were all sent to Democrats  (balloon-juice.com) (176)
(Some Neo-Confederate Populist) Silly A quick jump into the leftyblog swamp helps us understand what the debt limit issues are really all about: Racism, Abortion, and Sex Panic. Who knew?  (theothermccain.com) (38)
(Yahoo) Fail Congress: Well, that's done. Nothing really important needs our attention. Everyone take a month off. FAA: Ummm...guys? Hello? Anyone?  (news.yahoo.com) (164)
(Think Progress) Interesting Why there's no liberal version of the Tea Party  (thinkprogress.org) (363)
(The Cambridge Chronicle) Obvious Ballot measure to prioritize competence over seniority in schools might meet resistance from teachers unions  (wickedlocal.com) (154)
(The New York Times) Obvious Good thing the Capitol is atop a flight of stairs, out of reach of the 104th Personal Mobility Scooter Cavalry  (nytimes.com) (48)
(YouTube) Hero Sarah Palin: "Heck, If We Were Real Terrorists Obama Would Pal Around With Us"  (youtube.com) (333)
(BBC) Obvious Good news, America. China's central bank governor "welcomes" US debt deal. And it's even in quote marks so you can laugh at it too  (bbc.co.uk) (63)
(Talking Points Memo) Dumbass Steven King (R-eproductively challenged) thinks that premiums paid by single people, priests and old people shouldn't cover free birth control  (tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com) (208)


Tue August 02, 2011
(Politico) Interesting Republican gets sick of corporations hijacking her party, will run as a Democrat in 2012. Plus: she once sent 25lbs of manure to a lobbyist  (politico.com) (132)
(Gawker) Amusing Libertarian reporter gets (metaphorically) farked by Matt Damon  (gawker.com) (632)
(Salon) Interesting Salon pinpoints the problem with Obama's leadership woes: he's not batshiat insane  (salon.com) (103)
(Talking Points Memo) Fail Update: Only 92% of Newt Gingrich's 1.3 million Twitter followers are fake   (tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com) (60)
(Salon) Stupid Fox wants to know why Obama hates Easter  (salon.com) (119)
(Washington Post) Obvious Norwegian right wingers backpedaling away from Anders Breivik faster than Lance Armstrong from a urine test  (washingtonpost.com) (215)
(Fox News) Stupid Debt deal's three biggest winners: socialism, debt, and spending. Debt deal's three biggest losers: Tea Party, freedom, and Jesus  (foxnews.com) (131)
(CNN) Unlikely With a tax deal all but done, can taxes still be raised later? -shakes magic 8-ball-.... ask again later  (cnn.com) (77)
(National Review) Asinine If you picked Jonah Goldberg as the first person to pen a "I love Gabby Giffords, but..." article, step up and claim your prize  (nationalreview.com) (110)
(Some Guy) Obvious If they taxed like Canadians, Americans wouldn't have any farking debt problems, writes Canadian  (timescolonist.com) (101)
(Yahoo) Followup Senate passes debt deal. Rich get to keep on partying, rest of us are to pull down our pants and bend over  (news.yahoo.com) (359)
(Some Guy) Hero I don't know about you, but I have had it with these senseless atheist groups running around looking to eradicate Christian crosses, Ten Commanments displays, and prayer in public places, because they are "offended"  (scottfactor.com) (662)
(Foolocracy) Followup Maybe Gingrich didn't make up those 1.3 million Twitter followers after all. It seems that Gingrich is the preferred GOP presidential candidate of Twitter  (foolocracy.com) (35)
(National Review) Spiffy Best thing to come from debt deal: "the final interment of John Maynard Keynes"  (nationalreview.com) (213)
(USA Today) Followup Senate passes debt bill, send to Obama for signature. All our problems are solved (for the next few months, until the next round of this debacle kicks off)  (content.usatoday.com) (161)
(Breitbart.com) Silly The Tea Party is the "punk rock movement" of politics. So...it's loud, obnoxious, devoid of any real substance, and tailored towards disinfranchised idiots? Makes sense  (bighollywood.breitbart.com) (154)
(Economist) Fail State of the fiscal Union, or, Guess Who's in the Red and the Black: A graphic belovèd of Farkers updated to cover 1990-2009, shows that Blue States still pay for all, Red states still suckle at the socialist teats of the Union  (economist.com) (120)
(USA Today) Fail President Obama live at 12:15pm et  (content.usatoday.com) (365)
(Jammie Wearing Fool) Cool Twice as many Amercians self-identify themselves as members of the Tea Party than as liberals. So remind me which is the dangerous fringe group again?   (jammiewearingfool.blogspot.com) (233)
(BBC) Followup Anders Breivik's crazy list of demands is being kept away from President Obama because Obama loves giving crazy people everything they want  (bbc.co.uk) (17)
(Politico) Asinine Now that they have saved us from paying our already spent debt, tea baggers look to tackle the oppressive 18.4 cents a gallon gasoline tax so they can create jobs building toll booths at the end of all our driveways  (politico.com) (64)
(BBC) Fail As Fark experts predicted Egypt is transitioning smoothly into a secular democracy with the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamic groups playing little role  (bbc.co.uk) (252)
(Crooks & Liars) Hero Bill O'Reilly helpfully explains that the federal debt is all the fault of liberals  (crooksandliars.com) (123)
(Politico) Interesting Rep. Ryan: You haven't gotten a raise in three years? Yeah, you did. It went to pay for your health insurance  (politico.com) (92)
(ABC News) Followup Republicans blow up after hearing Biden might be calling them terrorists, demand he stop doing it or else  (abcnews.go.com) (133)
(Some Guy) Amusing Biden to Giffords: "I told her she's now a member of the cracked head club, like me, with two craniotomies." Oh, Joe  (huliq.com) (71)
(Reuters) Unlikely Putin says U.S. is parasite on global economy, removes shirt, dives into frozen lake holding a knife in his teeth  (reuters.com) (63)
(Reuters) Amusing Welcome the new tea party super hero, captain derp  (reuters.com) (54)
(Rolling Stone) Asinine Banks: "In the fifth, your ass goes down. Say it." Obama: "In the fifth, my ass goes down"  (rollingstone.com) (134)
(house.gov (pdf)) Asinine Debt deal has NO CUTS. Discretionary spending will increase every year through 2021. Read for yourself (starting on page 15)  (rules.house.gov) (138)
(Yahoo) Interesting Joe Biden collects rent on his cottage from the Secret Service so they can provide security to Joe Biden. This is a big farking deal  (news.yahoo.com) (101)
(Gawker) Fail Sad: Making up a fake boyfriend or girlfriend to get your friends to stop asking. Farking Hilarious: Making up Twitter followers in a desperate attempt to seem politically relevant  (gawker.com) (87)
(NPR) Amusing This is NPR News, I'm Carl Kasell... and here's my rap about the debt ceiling  (npr.org) (30)

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