democracyarsenal: While our national conversation has been focused on porcine makeup, a Maine television reporter - unlike the BBQ press - asked a baffled McCain some tough questions. Naturally, the Psychogeezer responded to the first question with a lie, then just kept spreading manure. Example: Sarah Palin..."knows more about energy than probably anyone else in the United States of America."

Open Left: Did McCain tamper with the Drug Enforcement Agency to protect his career?

Prometheus 6: Typical of a member of the Kouncil of Konservative Kitizens

Needlenose: Advice for Obama...

Clusterdouche! Matt Damon to produce "Hockey Mom" for Disney Channel; George Lucas will provide CGI-enhanced presidential gravitas

OFF THE BEATEN PATH: nihilix, TheZoo, Click Your Opinion, Blue Heron Blast

Serenity

I finally got to see Joss Whedon's "Serenity" today and I have to say I enjoyed it. It helps to know the short-lived series from FOX that’s running on the Sci-Fi channel now. The NY Times liked it better than anything George Lucas has done lately:

"It probably isn't fair to Joss Whedon's "Serenity" to say that this unassuming science-fiction adventure is superior in almost every respect to George Lucas's aggressively more ambitious "Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith." But who cares about fair when there is fun to be had? Scene for scene, "Serenity" is more engaging and certainly better written and acted than any of Mr. Lucas's recent screen entertainment's...read on"

Gina Torres is always a vision on the screen no matter what the size, but the true star of Serenity is Summer Glau's "River." She reminded me of the eerie character in the Hideo Nakata’s original Japanese thriller "The Ring." Check it out if you have the time.

A large picture of a certain Star Wars villain, who, if you’ve seen the movies, circumvented the democratic process to seize and abuse power.

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The Carpetbagger Report: The political connections between the latest Star Wars movie and the Republicans in DC have already been the subject of widespread discussion. It’s about to get much funnier.

The New York Times’ A.O. Scott, for example, noted that George Lucas is “clearly jabbing his light saber in the direction of some real-world political leaders” with the sixth and final installment of the Star Wars series.

Bill Frist disclosed that he went to animal shelters and pretended to adopt the cats, telling shelter personnel he intended to keep them as pets. Instead he used them to sharpen his surgical skills, killing them in the process.

James Dobson: When I returned I held up the belt and again told my angry dog to get into his bed. He stood his ground, so I gave him a firm swat across the rear end and he tried to bite the belt. The tiny dog and I had the most vicious fight ever staged between man and beast... I eventually got him to bed, but only because I outwieighed him 200 to 12.

Albert DeSalvo (the Boston Strangler) In his youth he trapped dogs and cats in orange crates and shot arrows through the boxes.

Jeffrey Dahmer staked cats to trees and decapitated dogs.

Henry Lee Lucas As a child, he killed every cat on his parent's farm.

David Berkowitz killed his neighbour's Labrador retriever.