• It’s the warmest winter on record! Suck it, Northeast! [Express UK, NYT]
• Killer Iceberg breaks loose in Antarctica; comparisons to Rhode Island forthcoming. [BBC]
• House votes 315-97 to extend Patriot Act, rivaling original 357-66 vote in 2001. [Wired]
• Carly Simon still won’t reveal namesake of “You’re So Vain”; Boomers maintain stranglehold on America into a new decade. [Vanity Fair]

[Stinque Reader Advisory: No snitching.]

Following the CPAC news that Dick Armey is endorsing Mike Lee, we cornered Mike Lee for an exclusive interview.

Please note: These are real, attributable, on-the-record quotes by Mike Lee. You can’t make up this shit.

Stinque: When did you learn that Dick Armey was endorsing Mike Lee?

Mike Lee: Somewhere between googling for gay porn and masturbating on ChatRoulette.

Stinque: Is it true you’re challenging incumbent Senator Bob Bennett in the Utah primary?

Mike Lee: Who? What? Utah? Are you fucking kidding me? I don’t think I can afford enough Purell to shake the hands of all those pigfuckers.

Stinque: Don’t you wear magic underwear?

Mike Lee: It’s not as magic as advertised, unless God loves racing stripes.

Read more »

Just about the time we were ready to do some intensive research on a hilarious post about a new online wingnut game, we got distracted by the most awesomely wrong opening ceremony in Olympic history.

Well, except Berlin, of course.

If you weren’t there for Vancouver FailFest 2010 last night, we weep for your grandchildren, forever denied the story of how you survived it.

Stinque endorses Dwight McKenna for Orleans Parish Coroner. Stinque will also endorse the incumbent Orleans Parish Coroner, Frank Minyard, if he comes back with anything near as delicious.

Oh, fuck it: Stinque endorses all candidates for coroner nationwide. How can we not?

Ad For Orleans Coroner Candidate: My Opponent Is Dr. Frankenstein! [TPM]

We probably should have noticed this a month ago, but we didn’t, so we’re sharing it with you now:

Prince Alwaleed’s Kingdom Holdings owns a 7 per cent stake, or 56m shares, of News Corp and is the largest shareholder outside the Murdoch family.

That would be Prince Alwaleed bin Talal al-Saud to you, pal. Of the Saudi Sauds. You know, the ones who own a country.

That’s right: Arabs.

Oh, and Rupert’s News Corp. also owns ten percent of the Prince’s media company.

And what’s in it for us? Only the pleasure of knowing who owns seven percent of anyone bloviating for Fox News, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Post, and Sarah Palin’s book publisher. Asalam Alaykum, Glenn!

Alwaleed backs James Murdoch [Financial Times, via ThinkProgress]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8xk360Kzcc

Something this week brought to mind David Letterman’s 1986 visit to GE headquarters, delivering a fruit basket to his new corporate masters, who had just bought NBC. Apparently the New York Times was thinking about it too, since they scouted a YouTube clip for us.

We don’t know whether Michael Moore was inspired by Letterman’s bit for his 1989 GM documentary, or whether there was just a late-Eighties zeitgeist at work. What we do know is that we had completely forgotten The Official General Electric Corporate Handshake, which remains A Gesture For Our Times.

Read more »