To be honest, we don’t trust Gawker Media these days. What began as a charming collection of rascals has evolved into a ravenous linkbait machine. Anything that appears in one of their blogs has to share the grain of salt we usually save for Politico: It may be true, but we’d feel more comfortable with a second source, from some joint that’s not hopelessly devoted to pageviews.

Most of the time we just ignore Gawker Media entirely — it’s been a long time since we frequented any of Nick Denton’s establishments. But sometimes they still cross our path, especially now that their posts are being syndicated elsewhere. (Is it really a wise use of TPM’s investment capital to run Gawker crap that sullies its growing reputation?) And they do show up on occasion in Memeorandum and its sister sites, the Google News of blogger chat.

Which is how we stumbled across Jezebel’s story on the Daily Show:

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“We don’t want the World Cup. We don’t like the World Cup. We don’t like soccer. We don’t want anything to do with it. You can package it any way. You can spend all kinds of money. You can force it on our television sets. We will not enjoy the World Cup.”

This might have been up the flagpole on a bunch of blogs run by dirty hippies, but it bears repeating.

Glenn Beck?  Have a big ol’ slice of this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_2m4EH7-0g

Just another environmental issue to ease you to sleep tonight – I just watched the whole documentary, and I’m more angry with Dick Cheney than I’ve ever been:

Break out your martini shaker and/or your bottle of Xanax, as Stinquer DodgerBlue shares with us this satellite image of close to the entire Gulf of Mexico coated with oil.

Meanwhile, the broken oil well was uncapped this morning and currently is spewing oil uncontrollably.  The cap had to be removed after BP engineers drove their submarine into machinery being used to clean up the fuel. It’s not a bumper car, Einstein!

No word on when the cap will be put back on, or if it will be put back on.

More details after the jump, plus something to hopefully keep us all sane.

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Woman who says she was nurse from WWII photo dies [AP]

Edith Shain and ‘The Kiss’ [LAT, 2005]

Back in fifth grade, our progressive sex-ed book had a picture of a nekkid boy, weenie out, which got us all excited — that meant just a few pages later we’d see a nekkid girl.

But the publishers used a drawing instead. Bastids.

Kids today don’t know how good they have it:

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“President Barack Obama has decided to relieve Gen. Stanley McChrystal of his command over all U.S. military forces in Afghanistan, sources tell NBC News… The Associated Press reported that Obama has chosen Gen. David Petraeus to replace McChrystal as top Afghan commander.” [MSNBC]