Sears Tower, Chicago.  I had a drink up there once, but this thing had not yet been installed.  I might have shit myself had I walked onto the glass:

Mark Sanford admitted to an affair. Then Mark Sanford admitted to several other affairs where he did everything but put his little soldier where it didn’t belong. And now he has the biggest asshole in the Senate gunning for him:

South Carolina’s senior Senator believes that Gov. Mark Sanford’s future as Governor will be resolved in the next week. However, Sen. Jim DeMint stopped short of predicting Sanford would resign.

“Obviously I’m concerned of whether or not he is in a position that he can continue to lead the state and a number of us are talking to him quietly and hopefully it will be resolved,” said DeMint, during an appearance on Fox and Friends Wednesday morning.

“I think I’m going to stay out of predicting but I think we will see some resolution in the next week,” DeMint told Fox News’ Steve Doocy.

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It’s Bulwer-Lytton time.  Why do I always first head for “Vile Puns”?

Using her flint knife to gut the two amphibians, Kreega the Neanderthal woman created the first pair of open-toad sandals.

Greg Homer
Placerville, CA

Also excellent:

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This might be the dumbest thing written on the internet last week:

I thought of another strong, gutsy, bold, stand-on-principles hero, Sarah Palin, in her own modern day version of High Noon. Sheriff Palin rode into America Town on a white horse with conservative guns blazing and saved a dead McCain campaign.

Oh really?

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Ouch.

Turn’s out that Mark Sanford’s lover was also a cougar, and that was her undoing:

BUENOS AIRES — The mystery of who revealed Gov. Mark Sanford’s e-mail messages may finally be solved. A business associate of Mr. Sanford’s Argentine mistress said Friday that private messages between the two lovers had been sent anonymously to a South Carolina newspaper last December by an Argentine man the mistress had briefly dated.

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Last December, the executive said, Ms. Chapur was dating a young Argentine a few months after her affair with Mr. Sanford began. The man happened to see the e-mail messages being exchanged between the governor and Ms. Chapur, said the executive — who said he had direct knowledge of the situation — and hacked into her e-mail account to see the rest.

Infuriated, the man sent the messages to The State, the newspaper in South Carolina’s capital, Columbia.

Sounds familiar …

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Let’s face it – Farrah Fawcett picked the wrong day to die.  Like those who passed away around the time Ronald Reagan died (Tony Randall, Ray Charles) her story will be washed out to sea by the tsunami of Michael Jackson coverage. Poor Farrah – yesterday, once the Gloved one was declared dead, she went from a banner at the top of the NYT front page to a blurb and a postage-stamp photo at the bottom.

It is also true that coverage of the Ensign and Sanford sex scandals will suffer. And this is unacceptable. These family-values fuckwits need to be mocked, driven from office, and perhaps gelded.

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