Shirtless TODD is inside the post... Yum yum yum!  If only he would turn around...The rest of Sarah Palin's PRIVATE vacation photos can be found here.(Via Wonkette) ...

It’s almost time to haul our lesbian, vegan, wiccan asses back to the small towns from which we escaped years ago, so that we can celebrate how thankful we are to have done so. Here are just a few do’s and don’ts for the big day: DO initiate a discussion about Sarah Palin and the liberal media. This will be more entertaining than a barrel of monkeys, trust me. DON’T ask any relative over the age of 70 how s/he is feeling unless you are an EMT and can handle this sort of thing over dinner. DO bring your love bunny. Bonus points for ...

As if reading Fosco Lives! isn't procrastination in itself, Fosco has found several other things you could read today to avoid doing any work:

• From the Anchorage Daily News, read that Alaska's dropout rate is double the national average. Wow. Sarah Palin has done some great work.
• Does your sense of California superiority need a little deflating? From the HuffPo: "Can We Stop Pretending California is Green?"
• From Andrew Sullivan, read about The Mormon War on Gay People.
• From SFGate read a fascinating history by Oz's US Representative Jackie Speier about her ordeal at Jonestown. It turns out

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RACHEL MADDOW: Makes the case for why Lieberman should not keep his committee chair. SARAH PALIN: Here's why Palin didn't give a press conference. JUDGE JUDY: Visits Larry King and talks about Obama, gay marriage, and gay adoption. BALLOON FAIL: How to make a fool of oneself in three minutes or less. Check out our previous guides to the Tube here. ...

What ya servin’? We’re tired around this joint.  Trying to decipher Sarah Palin will do that to you, I’m thinking.  So, chillax a little and watch Olbermann’s Special Comments reduced to 60 seconds.  It’s not all you need to know, just some of it.  Get the latest news satire and funny videos at 236.com. ...

Remember earlier this week when we showed you the ad for which Focus on the Family has supposedly booked network air time? Well, we haven't forgotten about that issue. We've been in touch with ad people all over the channel guide, and so far have no confirmation of the ad's intended airing. But if it HAS been booked, you best believe we will be on it like a Fargo-esque accent on Sarah Palin. That's not us trying to stifle anyone's speech -- it's us using our own speech to have a positive influence on corporate decision-making. ...

Okay, so I don’t doubt the New York magazine story that the claim that Sarah Palin thought Africa was a country and not a continent was a hoax. But I’m a bit confused by the claim that MSNBC was the news network fooled into repeating the lie into the mainstream… just as a regular viewer of Countdown and the pre-Hardball hour hosted by David Schuster and I recall MSNBC putting that claim on the air with the following Fox News clip: So, uhm, is New York saying that Carl Cameron is a prankster? ...

Sitting here in these chairs that I’m going to be proposing but in working with these governors who again on the front lines are forced to and it’s our privileged obligation to find solutions to the challenges facing our own states every day being held accountable, not being just one of many just casting votes or voting present every once in a while, we don’t get away with that. We have to balance budgets and we’re dealing with multibillion dollar budgets and tens of thousands of employees in our organizations. - Sarah Palin to Wolf Blitzer on CNN See, some ...

Keith Olbermann is known for his outspoken, often angry rants on everything from the Iraq War to Sarah Palin's alleged shopping sprees, but earlier this week he struck a more saddened tone when he spoke about the passage of Proposition 8 in California last week. His "Special Comment" on the issue is currently the most viewed video on MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann website: ...

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Since Obama isn’t going to be making much news this week, we might as well chill ourselves.  If there’s an open door for doing that also, I’ll step through it.  Joe Biden’s Teeth is an attempt to “reduce our dependency on porcelain and metal fillings through the investment in clean and renewable enamel.” Now, that’s some dental work we can believe in.  My heavens.  It’s been six whole days since I’ve mentioned Sarah Palin.  Thought I could go forever doing that, but she and her special needs family are fucking everywhere on the teevee and it’s kinda hard to ...

Very Early News Roundup Joe Scarborough became more and more agitated as the presidential campaign drew to a close. The more obvious it became that John McCain and Sarah Palin were screwing up the race, the more panicy he became. Yesterday morning on “Morning Joe” Mr. Scarborough dropped a F-bomb on live TV. See the video here.  He has earned himself a pretty shiny new 7 second tape delay. The Congo has descended into complete chaos. Tammy Duckworth, Iraq War veteran, is being pushed by some progressive veterans groups for the position of Veterans Affairs ...

Sarah Palin isn’t the only one facing flying fur after last week’s historic election results. While bitter McCain campaign aides accused their erstwhile veep of not knowing Africa is a continent, some bitter white gays were accusing African Americans of... ...

If you haven't heard of her, Donna Darko is a fanatical racist and faux feminist who dedicated her blog to her personal prejudices for the past few months. In one posting, she actually said that being anti-racist is "racist," something that reminds me of KKK rhetoric from the 70s. Her biggest obsession was her hatred of Barack Obama. In many ways, her racism took its cues from the Clinton campaign's decision to make white supremacy their main campaign theme. Her desire to keep the White House lily white was so obsessive that she constantly praised Sarah Palin, a ...

Fox News Sunday was questioning today how the Republican party can rebuild itself and basically take the tarnish off their brand.I have one suggestion. Stop alienating moderates by aligning yourself with crazy, divisive fringe nuts like the ones you carelessly stirred up during this election season. Oh, and how about not driving away countless wealthy supporters by constantly demonizing gays? Rich Hollywood types would be much more likely to support conservative fiscal views if you weren't constantly igniting cultural wars. Your backwards 1950's thinking leads those prone to high-horse-riding and soapbox-standing to oppose you just out of principal. The rest ...

Pig Palin has clearly been advised to keep pushing this "the sexist media ruined me" meme in the wake of her and John McCain's defeat last Tuesday. It's probably the best damage-control strategy available to her: it plays to the prejudices of her diehard supporters, and helps to build a narrative excuse for all of her totally insane fuckups. But she and her advisors might need to find a better grade of she-bot to deliver this message: Palin herself is not up to the challenge.  Highlight: Palin compares the current media to (the supposedly superior) media of back when ...

"If you think gay marriage is wrong, then don't marry a gay person." -- Whoopi Goldberg (in disgust over the votes in Florida and California)"Hell, I can see the moon from my house, that doesn't make me an astronaut."-- Steve Harvey on "The View," in response to Sarah Palin's claim that she would be good in foreign policy since she can see Russia from her house. ...

I will not pretend to know the inner workings of the Republican Party. I do find it compelling that the ink on national newspapers which stated, “Obama Wins!” was not dry before the finger-pointing began in the John McCain camp. I don’t know how smart Sarah Palin is, but I do know she performed terribly in several different interviews. The stream of unnamed Republican sources that have called Sarah Palin this or that is somewhat mind-boggling. Remember, just four years ago, we were talking about the discipline of the Republican Party. I guess it is much easier to ...

Sarah Palin responds to reports from FOX News that the McCain told them they were concerned when they discovered she didn't know Africa was a continent. She tells ABC: "That’s kind of a small, evidently bitter type of person who would anonymously charge something foolish like that, that I perhaps didn’t know an answer to a question. So until I know who is talking about it, I won’t have a comment on false allegations." Watch it, AFTER THE JUMP... ...

I know the election is over and I don't want to appear a sore winner, but this Fox News segment is too shocking to ignore. McCain staffers have revealed some things about Gov. Sarah Palin that could not be voiced during the election, the most shocking of which are that she could not name the countries that are part of NAFTA (that's the NORTH AMERICAN Free Trade Agreement), and the big one: she did... ...