In the spirit of the season, we are offering the rest of America this exclusive! one-time-only opportunity to mock Sandy Eggo weather. You’ll note that the street is empty because nobody in Southern California knows how to drive in the rain.

“The same people driving the lawsuits that seek to dismantle the Obama administration’s health care overhaul have set their sights on an even bigger target: a constitutional amendment that would allow a vote of the states to overturn any act of Congress.” [NYT]

It was a year without sex scandals.

Well, good ones. We’re sure that, if pressed, we could come up with something. But nothing with a marketable catchphrase like “Hiking the Appalachian Trail.”

And so, breaking with a long and storied tradition, the 2010 Stinque Awards for Achievement in Infamy will be the first without honoring the Best Spill of Precious Bodily Fluids in an Inadvertently Public Role. But not to worry — we’re sure that with so many new Republicans taking office in a few weeks, pestorking nominations for the 2011 Stinque Awards will be delightfully oversubscribed.

Until then, your immediate attention is required to the following categories:

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Because cutting the deficit is not the GOP way:

Title: “Simple Times: Crafts for Poor People”

Author: Amy Sedaris

Rank: 32

Blurb: “Did you know that inside your featureless well-worn husk is a creative you?”

Review: “Not a craft book for the family. I love her sense of humor, and was very gung ho about getting it for my mom for chirstmas. BUT, it is kinda creepy at parts.”

Customers Also Bought: “Barbie Collector Mad Men Collection Betty Draper Doll,” by Mattel

Footnote: The Sedaris kids are tag-teaming the Amazon Top 100 this week.

Simple Times: Crafts for Poor People [Amazon]

Buy or Die [Stinque@Amazon kickback link]

I’m heartbroken [Spike Kinsey/Facebook, via karen marie]

So, here it is.  Senate votes on DREAM, and then on DADT, are set to roll at 1030 Eastern War Time. 

The rules are simple.  A majority vote is required to pass legislation in any parliamentary system.  So if 51 Senators out of a hundred vote —

Oh, screw it.  You know something? If the Founding Fathers knew that the “saucer to cool the tea” crap that they were pushing, in order to head off the possibility of mob rule, would lead to this 60% majority to do anything, they would have said “forget it — let’s just have a unicameral legislature.”  Seriously.

But: play it as it lies.  Scott Brown, Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe hold the keys to the kingdom today.  And who said the GOP was dead in New England?

It’s an open thread, y’all.  GO!