I’ve had more than a few speeding tickets, but never a finale like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4j3w1QfV35I

Fox cancels 24 after eight seasons. Dave Barry weeps. Say what you want about torture porn, but Season 5 — when ex-President Allstate gets killed in the first ten minutes, and Drunken First Lady tries to uncover hubby’s conspiracy — remains totally over-the-top awesome. [NYT]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajT9IgL7SG8

Poor Scott Ashjian. All he wanted to do was challenge Harry Reid as the “Tea Party of Nevada” candidate. But the teabaggers disowned him — technically, claimed they never owned him in the first place — and now the Clark County district attorney’s office wants him to own up:

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Palin at the podium … a teabagger started booing when she said “taking back government and make it work for the people” … bunch of big guys attached him and carried him out.  Now a second guy has been thrown out … Palin pivots and attacks the “lamestream media” for claiming there’s right-wing violence.  This is a festival of idiocy. [MSNBC]

While cable-news audiences only saw Sarah Palin at John McCain’s campaign rally Friday, we intercepted the satellite feed to bring you these additional speakers.

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Your favorite foreign correspondent has taken time out of her busy wine-drinking schedule to report on a bunch of fuckery happening presently:

Italy

Berlusconi, class clown, made fun of the lefty governor of the Piemonte region: Read more »

The Colbert Report scores! No, wait — they’re on vacation this week. So hats off to the Onion for another outstanding — hold on, not them either.

Well, somebody gets credit, because a video as awesome as this couldn’t possibly be real:

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