We’re not sure what the Wingnut Senator from Utah is doing with an iPad app, but hey, as long as it keeps him off the streets.

Monsieur Souris [App Store]

Tomorrow marks the one year anniversary that Jared Lochner killed six people, including a 9-year-old girl and federal judge, and injured 13, at a “Meet the Congresswoman” event hosted by Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in Tucson.

Today, Rep. Giffords and her husband Mark Kelly joined in a hike at the Gabe Zimmerman Memorial Trailhead at Davidson Canyon park outside of Tucson.  Zimmerman was one of her staffers murdered in the attack.

[Photo: Giffords’ Book of Faces page]

“ABC News has learned that Bachmann, R-Minn., also is seriously weighing whether to seek the Republican nomination for president in 2012.”

You know that scene in The Grinch Who Stole Christmas when the Grinch’s heart swells up three sizes?  Yeah, that kind of happened to me when I was watching this video about Jim and Dylan in Chelsea.

[NYT: Santa Left a Forwarding Address]

“I’m not exactly for the use of drugs, don’t get me wrong, but I just believe that criminalizing marijuana, criminalizing the possession of a few ounces of pot, that kinda thing it’s just, it’s costing us a fortune and it’s ruining young people. Young people go into prisons, they go in as youths and come out as hardened criminals. That’s not a good thing.” [Raw Story]

“Nigeria will file charges against former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney and officials from five foreign companies including Halliburton Co. over a $180 million bribery scandal, a prosecutor at the anti-graft agency said.” [BusinessWeek]