Chicago Bureau is miffed because Sanjay Gupta could become Surgeon General.  But if you add just one little letter to that nightmare, it becomes clear that our very civilization is at risk:

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This is not happening:

President-elect Barack Obama has offered the job of surgeon general to Dr. Sanjay Gupta, the neurosurgeon and correspondent for CNN and CBS, according to two sources with knowledge of the situation.

Gupta has told administration officials that he wants the job, and the final vetting process is under way.

Dr. Phil, according to sources, turned him down, and expressed a desire to spend more time oversimplifying things with his family.

Guess who’s getting a Medal of Freedom?

Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair will receive the highest civilian award in the US – the Presidential Medal of Freedom – next week.

In his last week in office, President Bush will award the medal to Mr Blair, former Australian PM John Howard and Colombian President Alvaro Uribe.

All three leaders had been “staunch allies” of the US, particularly against terrorism, said the White House.

I am enraged.  And he has 2 more weeks to keep doing this shit.  The Dear Leader has made everything in this country valueless. 

Blair to Get US Medal of Freedom [BBC]

Back in high school, we came this close to getting caught up in the then-nascent Dungeons & Dragons cult. But something about it — perhaps it was the terminal boredom and encyclopedic rules — thwarted our interest.

Or perhaps it was the sensation of falling-falling-falling we felt when we grasped what a D&D commitment would require of us. Kind of like the sensation we felt last night when we received an alarming! email about “a conspiracy at an awful site plotting to use dirty tricks to undermine Team Sarah.”

OMG: Trolls!

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Biography of India [White House]

Remember Bill Frist?  Senate Majority Leader back when the GOP was busily destroying two or three countries (including this one)? Remember when he wrongly diagnosed Terri Schiavo from a video?  Remember when he fucked over Trent Lott?  Well he’s decided not to fuck over the people of Tennessee – at least not yet:

Former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) announced Sunday that he will not run for governor of Tennessee in 2010.

“After significant reflection and conversation with loved ones, I have decided to remain a private citizen for the foreseeable future,” Frist said in a statement.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxkUE5TtOFQ

We know American commercials suck, but it takes an exquisite advert from overseas to demonstrate just how much. Today’s example hails from the land of Oz, where men are men, women are women, and beavers are cuddly.

No beavers, boobs or bonking: What we hate in ads [Sydney Morning Herald, via CheapBoy]