Albert wrote a wonderful story about how his parents met. Go read it.

This photo, though, leaves no doubt about why it is SeoulBrother’s such a hit with the ladies.

“I don’t get it. They’re trying to raise money for charity?”

“They’re trying to raise something!” [via chumblespuzz]

Money from our loyal donors should not be used for this purpose. I don’t know why this policy existed in the past, but it will not exist under my administration. Consider this issue settled.

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Michael Steele, Republican National Committee chairman, says the RNC health plan will no longer cover elective abortion, reversing a near 20 year policy.

Isn’t it cute how he says his “administration” as if being the toothless, feckless leader of a party adrift due to its own blind anger and utter lack of substantive policy is something to be proud of. Aw.

The current policy has been in effect since 1991, and we are taking steps to address the issue

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Republican National Committee spokeswoman Gail Gitcho on the RNC’s health insurance plan, which covers elective abortion.

But wait, it gets better! Cigna, the company that covers the RNC, says that it offers its customers the opportunity to opt out of abortion coverage and they decided not to opt out.

(psst, if you’re reading this in the Dashboard, you’ll want to click through to see the videos. Sorry.)

Here’s Jon Stewart ripping into Hannity for faking some footage of an anti health care reform protest

And here’s Hannity’s lame excuse

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[ED NOTE: FOX, douchebags that they are, decided to yank the Hannity apology from YouTube. I couldn’t find an embeddable clip on FOX’s shitastic website, so there’s a clip from Hard Ball. Those of you who are aware of my day job may well cry CHICANERY to which I say, politely, suck it.]

Not only is Hannity’s stupid “mistakes were made” apology pass-the-buck-ism at its finest, it’s a complete and total lie. Anyone who knows anything about video production knows that it would be impossible for the false clip to “inadvertently” slip into the final production. Someone had to go into FOX News’ archive, find that clip and make the decision to add it to the video that aired. Someone had to tell that person to do it. There’s no way this was a mistake or even the act of a single individual. If anyone at FOX gave a damn about its responsibility to their viewers, the people responsible, meaning the producer and the editor, should be fired. If it was Hannity who gave the order to cut the clip that way, he should be fired, too.

Of course, the people who watch this garbage are getting exactly what they deserve: lies used to justify their own increasingly narrow and out of date worldview.

It’s not just that the Ugg boots you overpaid for three years ago continue to look hideous. The reason any man of character instantly finds you unattractive when he sees you wearing those stupid, stupid things is that you’re saying to the world “I bought into a fashion promulgated by the most shallow our generation had to offer.”

Trends are fine, they come and go, we laugh at the pictures ten years later. Being mindful of their genesis is a skill worth honing, though.

Epic

President Obama continues a long tradition of planting a tree at the White House. This tree is replacing one planted by George W. Bush which, reportedly, “didn’t take”.

Or maybe they just shouldn’t have let Cheney spit there.

Neven memorialized balloon boy in that quintessentially 21st century medium, a t-shirt

Driving a car with an iPhone