Just like it has been a tough year for America, it has been an equally tough year for some of the bloggers whom we know (through the internets) and love (also through the internets). It seem like every time you turn around a blogger is having a fundraiser in an effort to stave off losing [...]

Shorter Richard Epstein: Programs and policies such as unemployment insurance, minimum wage laws, collective bargaining, anti-discrimination laws, healthcare mandates, overtime laws, and family leave policies are totally preventing the job creators from creating a workers paradise. Actual Epstein quote: If [job] program participants do get jobs, they rarely lead to long-term employment. Another baleful consequence [...]

Pizza guy and dispenser of copious amounts of semen, Herman Cain has more lady problems: An Atlanta businesswoman is breaking her silence, claiming she has been involved in a 13-year-long affair with Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain. Over the Thanksgiving weekend, FOX 5 senior I-Team reporter Dale Russell sat down with Ginger White, who had [...]

Gay Barney Frank is retiring from his gay job and conservatives will now spend the day pointing out that gay Barney Frank is gay and that his super gayness destroyed the world economy (a story which is, by the way, totally gay). Also … Barney Frank is gay. The end.

Brother Timothy Tebow’s Traveling Miracle and Cut-Rate Circumcision Road Show rolls into town this week and His Heavenly Father has blessed San Diego with more beautiful than usual weather in anticipation of this heavenly event. Now that Kyle Orton has been cast from DenverEden, God will be particularly protective of Timmy because, Notre Dame or [...]

Shorter Megan McArdle: I refuse to let some smarty-pants college professor ruin my pride in my awesome $1500 food processor with his stupid facts and studies which I shall simply dismiss because my $1500 food processor is so awesome and he is old and boring and I’ve heard it all before. Blah blah blah. Fiddle-dee-dee. [...]

And on the  Friday following Thanksgiving we give thanks for Shakira’s ass. Well played, Jeebus, well played… Kissing The Lipless – The Shins Memphis & 53rd – Minus The Bear California Queen – Wolfmother June Hymn – The Decembrists Night By Night – Chromeo Roxy – Girls Against Boys A Dedication – Washed Out Gia [...]

This will be the model: one employee sprinting through the parking lot bringing toys & holiday cheer to “competitive shoppers”:  

Creepyfaced Kansas Governor Sam Brownback has state employees scanning the internets looking to see if people think he’s your basic garden variety douche or a superexxtrememega douche because this is apparently cheaper than slipping a note to everyone in the state asking, “Do you like me? — check yes or no”, not that anyone in [...]

Shorter David Brooks: No. I’ve never heard of PostSecret. Why? What worries me is that Brooks will take these true confessions about adultery and death and life among the ruins and he’ll use them as source material to fashion yet another novel where couples will ” taste each other’s saliva and then collect genetic information.” [...]