Overture! Curtains! Lights! This is it! The Final Blight!

Porky and Daffy welcome you to our final Open Thread/Dropped Jaw of the Bush Administration’s War on English. We hear that Shrub is only going to annoy us for ten or fifteen minutes tonight, but hey, we wanted to send him out in style. We recommend a plexiglass shield before throwing shoes at your television.

Chicago Bureau is miffed because Sanjay Gupta could become Surgeon General.  But if you add just one little letter to that nightmare, it becomes clear that our very civilization is at risk:

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Biography of India [White House]

Predator Drone Blows Away Unruly Canadian

The first aerial drone to be used for civilian agency surveillance of the US and Canadian border has been delivered to Grand Forks, N.D. where it will be used uneventfully for a few years – and eventually inspire school districts in the US to apply for grants to have them patrolling school crossings inside of 20 years engendering all manner of collateral damage that will, by then, be considered an unavoidable consequence of ensuring greater safety.

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“This isn’t about politics, this is about doing the right thing.”
–Joe the Plumber, Paragon of Awesome

‘Joe the Plumber’ Hawking DTV Converter Boxes [PC Magazine]

Joe’s DTV Education Corner [VelocityStore]

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Johnny Rotten pays the rent. Sellout or metapunk? You make the call!

A billion levels of awesome [Sadly, No!]

Can’t find anything online, but NBC’s Andrea Mitchell is quoting two sources saying Hillary’s going to State. (Okay, she’s a “viable candidate.” Remember, balloons float with helium or hot air.)