My coworker just told me about this fake NY Times that people were handing out on the subway yesterday morning. It’s filled with [liberal media elite] stories that are so-good-I-wish-they-were-true: Education Department Plans National Tax Base for Schools and Maximum Wage Law Passes Congress.

My favorite article, Court Indicts Bush on High Treason Charge, captures what would happen if Bush turned himself in for leading the US into a war with Iraq, knowing full well that there were no WMD.

“It’s taken a lot of soul searching, or more like deep-soul diving, I think is the term. But now I see that it was wrong to lead our nation to war under false pretenses. Millions have suffered for my sins, and I see now that it is only fitting that I should suffer as well.”

Mr. Bush’s self-accusation seems largely to have been plagiarized from years of accusations made against him in the press. It refers to his “political propaganda campaign to sell the war to the American people,” and describes how he and his team attempted to make the “W.M.D. threat and the Iraqi connection to terrorism appear certain, whereas in fact we knew there wasn’t one at all.”

Maybe it’s a sign that political satire isn’t dead now that Sarah Palin is out of the public eye for a little while.

If clicking around on that doesn’t give you enough stuff to slack-off-at-work-on-a-rainy-day with, check out Google’s flu trends chart. Happy Thursday!

I think staying focused at work for the next few hours will be challenging at best…

We waited through a not-too-terribly-painful line to vote (for change) this morning in JC before heading in to work. As if fulfilling civic responsibility is not enough of a reason to vote, I was psyched to learn about all kinds of free stuff that you can get for voting (or saying you voted). These include:

Free Starbucks

Free Ben & Jerry’s

AND

Free Krispy Kreme

Although there is some question of the legality of these offers (from “hippie corporations”) and you do have to brave mandatory calorie content postings to set foot in these places, they are still pretty rad.

We’ll be watching the election returns tonight while eating shrimp and corn tacos, blue chips, and blueberry crumble for desert. Notice a trend?

Happy Election Day!

We already knew that white people like to threaten to move to Canada…well finally, Slate V has laid out a plan for us. Phew!

This weekend is Whit & Mikey’s wedding! Woo hoo! Maybe we’ll do a mobile post from the reception, if we’re not too full of haggis…

Thanks to Taylor for finding this one.

Although I fell asleep before Hillary’s speech last night, I woke up to this on the Daily Show which made me very, very happy. Here’s to arugula!

Today is brings yet another Democrat Primary Day (two actually) which means that once again I’ll fall asleep on a Tuesday night in the midst of flipping non-stop between CNN and Fox News (I like the way that they keep track of McCain’s votes too, even though it’s a moot point). I found this neat Google tool after I spent a few days campaigning in PA before the April 22 Primary and I wanted to see how Buck’s County (where I was volunteering) ended up voting (overwhelmingly for Hillary, was the answer…) One thing seems clear: no matter what happens tonight, I’m pretty sure that I’ll spend yet another future Tuesday watching the primary returns…