your quote of the day.

Let's be honest: Thursday night Bush sounded like a kid reciting the high points of fourth grade, or a challenged patient graduating to a new level in some kind of mental health rehab institution. No one could watch that and not be shaken by it. I've had my political disagreements with my friend Chris Matthews, but he summed it up really well: It was an abomination, the depiction of a world of presidents in which "every kid gets a trophy who participates."

--Joan Walsh on salon.com
http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/misc/2009/01/16/bush_farewell/index.html

oh, for fuck's sake

Doctor Who plans to film a special in Dubai.
This is the moral equivalent of filming an episode of I Spy in South Africa.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/garethmcleanblog/2009/jan/16/1