Advice from the wise folks at T.Bear Sachs:

IRAQ WAR ENDS and other great headlines in today’s (fake) New York Times (courtesy of The Yes Men).

I suppose, in retrospect, it was inevitable:

Speculation has been running rampant in the media about the Obama family’s new dog, which he promised to Sasha and Malia in his victory speech on Tuesday night. So far, my favorite suggested name for the dog is Maverick.

Just this afternoon, Obama gave his first press conference, and he was asked about the dog. Like the lawyer he is, he responded that they family has to weight two competing considerations: on the one hand, Sasha is allergic, so they need a hypo-allergenic dog; on the other hand, they’d like to get a dog from the pound. He added, “But as you know, most pound puppies are mutts, just like me.”

I love it!!!

Starbucks is giving away a free “tall” (i.e., “small”) brewed coffee to anyone who walks into one of their retail locations on November 4th and says, “I voted.”

It’s not a huge deal, but it’s something. I like the idea of companies giving out freebies to voters.

Courtesy of our friends at the Public Service Administration:

…then you’ll agree with me that Dick Cavett remains an extremely funny man:

On his program at this very moment (that is, in your recent past) I can hear the humor-free Rush Limbaugh saying that he is “being told by my gut” – which is in evidence – that “things are moving McCain’s way.” Interesting, to say the most.

But enough of this bridled hilarity.

So I finally made my own LOLcat picture:

Stolen from a comment on IOZ’s blog by aaron:

Which country’s government am I?

1. I sink hundreds of billions into armaments, bankrupting myself and creating a current accounts deficit with my own extraterritorial dependencies.
2. I invade Afghanistan.
3. I have a centralized banking system.
4. I own the means of production (auto manufacturing for example).
5. I imprison millions of my own citizens.