Watch a bunch of Suzuki Swifts play ice hockey, courtesy of those loons at Top Gear.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GH0FQN1MQqQ

Well, well, well.  Let’s see what he does under light-to-moderate pressure.  White House Press Conference — with a guy who can actually respond in English!  With commentary from YOU!

1956 (ET): The story so far?  Cloture in the Senate today, biggish vote tomorrow, conference committee speed round thereafter.  Or something like that.

2000: Barack Obama has won the toss, and will receive.

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Not only was Ted Haggard a busier perv than we thought, he’s not the only perv at his “church”. Signorile:

A Colorado Springs bail bondsman and sometime bounty hunter who has been investigating New Life Church and Ted Haggard for several years appeared on my show late on Friday and told me that he now has information on ten more cases of sexual misconduct on the part of Ted Haggard and that three of these involve minors. He also said that New Life Church had suppressed from the media an earlier case of a pastor at the church (which has many pastors under the senior pastor) who was convicted of sexual assault against a child under the age of 15 and got off easy with help from the church, only to later have his probation revoked. The convicted pastor then illegally left the country, he said, and he speculates that New Life Church may have helped him do so.

Is there something in the fucking water?

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Today’s installment of DisappointmentWatch involves the Office of Inquisition Faith-Based Initiatives, one of Shrub’s notable efforts to trim the Bill of Rights from the top.

You’ll recall that Candidate Barry didn’t have a problem with the office as such — and neither did we, not if it was retrofitted to serve its stated purpose instead of providing fundie pork:

“If you get a federal grant, you can’t use that grant money to proselytize to the people you help, and you can’t discriminate against them — or against the people you hire — on the basis of their religion.”

That was Barry last July. And here it is February already! Guess what?

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Title: A Slobbering Love Affair: The True (And Pathetic) Story of the Torrid Romance Between Barack Obama and the Mainstream Media

Author: Bernard Goldberg

Rank: 25

Blurb: “BONUS: An exclusive interview with Rush Limbaugh on the unholy alliance between Obama and the mainstream media”

Review: “It’s a very short read, perhaps a one-off in advance of the balloon payment on his boat.”

Customers Also Bought: “The Yankee Years”, by Joe Torre

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So sorry, A-Fraud.  No all-time home run record for you.

[Certain people have questioned whether steroids are really, truly evil.  All I know is this: Alex Rodriguez is a New York Yankee.  This shall suffice for me.]

If you have any Olympian dope-smoking photos, please send them directly to Stinque HQ. We’ll split the profits with you.

February Jam [Flickr]