The inside scoop from an anonymous D.C. tipster:

The two men who interrupted Hillary Clinton’s speech in NH on Monday, January 7th with shouts of “ Iron my shirt!” were, as many of us have suspected, planted by H-bomb and her staffers. Thanks, Hill, for simultaneously accusing your opponents of sexism while organizing your stooges to spew hatred.

Yeah, it’s true, some dudes wheeled their friend’s corp$$$e to the corner store to cash his social security check.

They went inside to present the check, but a clerk said Mr. Cintron would have to cash it himself, and asked where he was, the police said.

“He is outside,” Mr. O’Hare said, indicating the body in the chair, according to Mr. Browne.

The two men started to bring the chair inside, but it was too late.

Whoops! Actually, while I’m sure Weekend is a steller film, I recommend the hilarious and moving Getting Home, also know as 落叶归根, or Luo Ye Gui Gen, which is the best adventure+corpse movie ever. The title comes from an idiom which loosely means, “Falling leaves return to their roots.” Rent that shit.

Tim Meadows explains the pitfalls of smoking marijuana to Dewey Cox.

And if you’re on the fence about seeing this movie, here’s a push. It’s crazy funny and the music is amazing. (R-rated by the way. I must admit the penises caught me completely by surprise, and I was with my niece. Am I allowed to say ‘penises’?)

Every now and again, Ron Paul deserves more than just one Quote of the Day. Last Friday, bow-tied monstrosity Tucker Carlson wrote a piece for The New Republic: “ Pimp My Ride: On the road with Ron Paul’s merry band of misfits and his hooker fan club.” Carlson ‘ reports‘:

Being at the center of attention clearly bothers Paul. “I like to be unnoticed,” he says, a claim not typically made by presidential candidates. “That’s my personality. I see all the excitement and sometimes I say to myself, ‘Why do they do that?’ I don’t see myself as a big deal.”

WHHHATTT?? When your followers, dubbed “ Paultards” by the blog-demons of Wonkette, are minting their own coins with your likeness, you’re kind of a big deal. Here is Paul’s new campaign ad: Ron Paul–Defender of Freedom. More importantly, though, is this video of Ron Paul defeating Adolf Hitler in combat.

For a more serious take on the Ron Paul Revolution, however, check out Earl Ofari Hutchinson’s sobering piece on the significance of Paul’s dismissal of the Civil War and Abe Lincoln.

Today, in Ron Paul Quote of the Day, we bring you footage of our favorite boobs at the McLaughlin Group (sharpest mind, best sources, hardest talk!) discussing why RP deserves to be a runner-up to Oprah and Obama for Most Charismatic Person of the Year on their dippy lil’ awards show. Okay, more importantly, we are using the RPQOTD feature to bring you this footage of John McLaughlin’s most incredible outfit, ever. I guess this raises the question: why don’t I always watch this show?

I’m shocked, SHOCKED, to find that no one posted this video when it first hit the youtube circuit. Shame on us all.

God bless the internet for bringing this all right to my lap:

• Senate confirms ICE director Julie Meyers despite that pesky blackface incident. [ ColorLines, AP]
• Vlad Putin kickin’ it with Japanese Judo Champ [ Wonkette]
• Mike Huckabee comments on Britney Spears’ barefoot-n-preggers lil’ sister. [ Political Punch]
• Top 10 Hottest Videos of 2007. [ Alternet]
• The Committee to Elect Friedrich Nietzsche brings you Immanuel Kant: Wrong for America:

On Huckabee’s use of religious imagery, Ron Paul told Fox News: “It reminds me of what Sinclair Lewis once said…he says, ‘When fascism comes to this country it will be wrapped in the flag, carrying a cross.’”

I know I’ve been citing The New York Times an awful lot lately. I’ve grown up believing the paper to be a highly reputable source of information ( my Mom’s fault, I swear). I am generally impressed by the immense amount of content churned out by the Times writers’, on the hour. But in procrastinating during the take-home final exam essay I’m supposed to be writing on political liberalism, I’ve come across some highly questionable headlines and some fairly uninteresting content on the paper’s website. Check it:

• “ What’s So Great About Scooters?” Uhhhh….WHAT!?
• “ Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A New Verse Translation.” I read Sir Gawain and the Green Knight during my senior year in high school for a project on the most boring epic poems ever written. Is the Times announcing this new version in case people are short on firewood and need something dry to burn?
• “ Campaign on Childhood Mental Illness Succeeds At Being Provocative.” I imagine mothers-to-be everywhere reading the first part of this headline and jumping for joy… maybe my kid’s got a shot! Maybe he won’t be utterly fucking nuts like me!…and then scoping the rest. Great. Juuuust great.
• “ Accusation of Attack Stuns Police and College.”As if the headline isn’t good enough, the opening line of this piece references a night club called KatManDu.
• “ Cheating Matters (Sometimes).” On behalf of girlfriends, wives, husbands, boyfriends, partners, teachers, parents, judges and administrators everywhere: THANKS, NEW YORK TIMES!

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It is commonplace to spend the month of December reflecting on the year that has passed. This year (at least when it comes to reflecting on the liberal/independent media) Alternet has done that reflection for you. Check out their Top 10 Best Environment Stories, Top 10 Rights & Liberties Stories, Top 10 Sex & Relationship Stories, and Top 10 Reasons Why I broke up with God of 2007.

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We’re in the eye of the storm. Channukah just ended, and X-mas is right around the corner. It’s a beautiful time for the many products of intermarriage.

For some help getting through the season, check out these public service announcements on stuff and buying stuff, courtesy of our friends at Adbusters.

I feel compelled to update my post from yesterday, Governer Carcieri <3 Our Troops, with this photo. How could I let this slide? It’s too good to be true.

Thanks to William Pierce for slammin’ this baby up on the Facebook.

In an interview with MTV News, Paul Reubens discusses plans for not one, but two new Pee-Wee feature films.

“I get mail that just says, ‘Pee Wee Herman, Hollywood.’ It’s like ‘Miracle on 34th Street,’ ” ( MTV News)

There’s always something amusing about going back to TV shows, movies and books from childhood and reexamining them from your new position of uber-liberal enlightenment. You’re bound to find some strange racist and sexist undertones in what you once considered innocent child entertainment. Cracked.com recognizes the humor in this, and they have released their list of the “9 Most Racist Disney Characters.”

Who made the cut?

9. The Merchant from Alladin
8. Sebastian from The Little Mermaid
7. The crows from Dumbo
6. The Siamese Twin Gang from Chip n’ Dale
5. King Louie from the Jungle Book
4. Sunflower the Centaur from Fantasia
3. The Indians from Peter Pan
2. Uncle Remus from Song of the South
1. Thursday from Mickey Mouse and the Boy Thursday

The logic behind the list is pretty good. For example, on The Little Mermaid:

In this 1989 film, a Jamaican-sounding crab teaches Ariel that life is better “Under the Sea,” because underwater you don’t have to get a job. Up on the shore they work all day / Out in the sun they slave away / While we devotin’ / Full time to floatin’ / Under the sea!

Noticeably absent from this list are the Siamese Cats from Lady and the Tramp, every character from Pocahontas and Mulan, and a bunch of Africanized animals (particularly the hyenas and monkeys) from The Lion King. Also, I would say that Snow White contains some fierce anti-dwarf sentiments, and that the Hunchback of Notre Dame had its share of anti-Victor Hugo propaganda. But this list will do. And if you feel demoralized after scoping the list, check out their 9 Most Badass Bible Verses.

We all know about Rudy’s stint as a prosecutor, but at this holiday season, I’d like to remember all the good he did. Check out Michael Powell in the NYTimes.

Mr. Giuliani, who was 38 when he became United States attorney in 1983, threatened his targets with long prison sentences, and he infuriated judges with leaks of grand jury testimony to the press.

His agents handcuffed Wall Street arbitrageurs before prosecutors investigated them. Apology was weakness; skeptics were “jerks.”

[…] Mr. Giuliani armored himself with a tight band of lawyers and investigators, men known as the “Yes Rudys!” One of them tended to the prosecutor’s political future, another to the deputies, a third handled leaks to the press. They shared cigars and drinks in the evening.

I don’t know about you, but I’m thinkin’ he’s just the guy to keep America safe from the terrorists.

Not that I was ever a die-hard fan, but someone’s gotta give ‘em props for their Energizer-Bunny-like stamina. Ben Ratliff reports in the NYTimes:

LONDON, Dec. 10 — Some rock bands accelerate their tempos when they play their old songs decades after the fact. Playing fast is a kind of armor: a refutation of the plain fact of aging, all that unregainable enthusiasm and lost muscle mass, and a hard block against an old band’s lessened cultural importance.

But Led Zeppelin slowed its down a little. At the O2 arena here on Monday night, in its first full concert since 1980 — without John Bonham, who died that year, but with Bonham’s son Jason as a natural substitute — the band found much of its old power in tempos that were more graceful than those on the old live recordings.