When his wife dumps him. Entirely unsubstantiated rumor flying around the Interwebs has Cindy McCain carrying on an affair with a Maryland divorce attorney. How better to gain sympathy?
When he loses 5 of his 7 houses. See above.
When he makes us ribs. During the campaign, McCain nearly kept the Obama-loving press in his corner with his well-known barbeque skills. Hit us up, Johnny, we’ll bring the potato salad.
When he singlehandedly catches Osama Bin Laden. He’s promised he knows how to do so, and I’m sure despite losing the Presidency, he’ll still book a trip to the gates of hell.
Well, the economy still stinks. Yesterday the stock market fell to its lowest point in 6 years. The drop was fueled by fears of deflation, which is when the costs of goods and services actually go down. Why is deflation bad? It represents the fact that consumers arn’t spending money. Companies will begin to take in less money and react by slowing production and cutting jobs, which causes consumers to scale back spending even more. Deflation is often an indicator of a depression, but you know what else it is an indicator of? BARGAINS! With goods and services costing less, you paycheck (or unemployment checK) will spread further. But what should you spend your money on?
A shopping guide including Gay Marriage, Missouri, Childhood Obesity, Joe the Plumber, and Guns N Roses after the jump.
What’s that? Oh nothing, just the President-elect’s first YOUTUBE VIDEO!! Though the weekly radio address has been a Presidential standard for years, Barack Obama has added a weekly Youtube address. Though it seems like this is a leap forward in Presidential accessibility, it is worth noting that comments on that video have been turned off. That is probably for the best, it really wouldn’t do to have some schmuck tell the President-elect “GEEZ KILL YO’SELF.”
Iraq’s cabinet on Sunday overwhelmingly approved a proposed security agreement that calls for a full withdrawal of American forces from the country by the end of 2011. The overwhelming nature of the vote bodes well for the agreements full vote in Parliament because it is likely all of the political parties will support it. So the war is over – maybe?
President-elect Obama and Senator John McCain are meeting today in Chicago to attempt a reconciliation after a bitter campaign. Here is an interesting debate to have in your office: What role will John McCain play in the upcoming years? Will he lead the Republican opposition and through his mastery of the ins and outs of the Senate change or kill President Obama’s proposals? Or, will he give a big F.U. to the Republican base and lead the moderate Republicans to compromise with the Democratic majority. I don’t know, but I feel like having to suck up to Joe the Plumber may have been the last straw.
Finally, a note of major concern to 2.0somethings, Total Request Live ended last night after a ten-year run as the anchor property of MTV. The show launched the careers of artists like Britney Spears, the Backstreet Boys, ‘N Sync, Eminem and Christina Aguilera, so it would be easy to joke that the world would have been better off without it. But for a lot of people our age, TRL was was the first exposure we had to the communal experience that is pop culture. I am going to celebrate by heading over to MTVmusic.com and throwing on some videos of LFO, The Bare Naked Ladies, 98 degrees, Limp Bizkit, Korn, Sugar Ray or whoever, closing my eyes and for a brief second, pretending that I just got home from school.
What could be more dramatic than Dr. House and crew struggling to deal with a potentially deadly case of agoraphobia? Many things. But that’s what you get.
Letterman hosts Colbert-rival Don Rickles, John McCain shows up on Leno to ask if he’s President yet, Seth Green wanders over to Conan from this week’s Entourage, Thomas Friedman test drives a hybrid-electric moustache on the Daily Show, and Sacramento Mayor-Elect/ex-Sacramento King Kevin Johnson dribbles over to Colbert.
Democrat Barack Hussein Obama was elected the 44th president of the United States on Tuesday, becoming the first African American to win the post and completing a meteoric rise from state senator to the White House. The Illinois Senator rode a message of change and an inspirational exhortation of hope to a victory over Senator John McCain of Arizona. Thought votes are still being counted, Senator Obama currently has 52% of the popular vote and 349 electoral votes. Obama gave his acceptance speech in front of 200,000 people in Chicago’s Grant Park.
This is the biggest news story in the world today, you can takeyourpick as to which newspaper coverage of the election you want to read. Or, you can do what I did and just go here and cry for a while. All of the coverage focuses on the historic nature of the election, both what it means for race in America and how President-elect Obama (there goes the crying again) is going to face a daunting set of challenges.
What do your favorite writers think?
Tom Friedman calls this election the true end of the Civil War.
Matt Yglesias is trying to insist that this is really a victory for a progressive agenda.
Paul Krugman calls this an end to the Monster Years of American politics.
Well, the economy still stinks. Yesterday the stock market fell to its lowest point in 6 years. The drop was fueled by fears of 
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