Have you met Spencer Elden? Nice kid. Works for Shepard Fairey, who did the Obama poster. Cute little dick. You might have seen it on an album cover.

Shepard Fairey Employs Nirvana’s Nevermind Baby [Mediabistro, via Kottke]

• iPads arrived.
• Brief rupture of the space-time continuum.
• Stock-chart mixup with Rocky & Bullwinkle graphic.

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The Augean Stables that are Albany  – at last, the cleaning starts:

Former Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno has been sentenced to two years in federal prison.

The judge told Bruno 97 months would have been too long of a sentence and probation would have been too little – that is why he decided on this sentence.

Bruno will not begin serving time until the Supreme Court makes a ruling on the Honest Services Law.

After a ruling is made, Bruno’s sentencing will be reevaluated.

Bruno Sentenced to 2 Years in Federal Prison [Fox 23]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31FFTx6AKmU

It’s Election Night for British Bigots, and rather than pretend we know anything, we’ll just kick you over to the Beeb for the latest results. At post time, Labour has a single seat, with just 649 to go.

Election 2010 [BBC]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZxk_9GTHrs

California Demrats produce a Demon Sheep sequel, while Sarah Palin comes out for Carly:

Carly is the Commonsense Conservative that California needs and our country could sure use in these trying times. Most importantly, she’s running for the right reasons. She has an understanding that is sorely lacking in D.C. She’s not a career politician. She’s a businesswoman who has run a major corporation. She knows how to really incentivize job creation.

Thousands of HP employees might dispute that, but let’s see what the sheep themselves have to say:

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We thought there was a code of omertà about these things:

​The male escort hired by anti-gay activist George Alan Rekers has told Miami New Times the Baptist minister is a homosexual who paid him to provide body rubs once a day in the nude, during their ten-day vacation in Europe.

Rekers allegedly named his favorite maneuver the “long stroke” — a complicated caress “across his penis, thigh… and his anus over the butt cheeks,” as the escort puts it. “Rekers liked to be rubbed down there,” he says…

New Times spent more than three hours with Lucien in the wee hours of Thursday morning. Check back this afternoon for stories detailing the trip…

Dammit, we paid good money for a Learning Annex class on this. The Rent Boy Guild is gonna be pissed.

George Rekers Is a Homosexual, Escort Says [Miami New Times]

Stinque’s 2009 Golden Anal Pear Asshole of the Year and runner-up for 2009’s Crystal Douchebag for Lifetime Achievement, Senator Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, is introducing legislation today (co-sponsored by Senator Centerfold of Massachusetts) that would give the State Department the power to strip citizenship from any American that the department thinks has ties to a terrorist organization.

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