Rosie and Penny the Miracle Pug congratulate you bunch of losers dear sweet funny people for yet another year down the drain of trenchant fun.

Of course we couldn’t do it without noje. I’m not sure that’s a good thing.

Title: “Beating Obamacare: Your Handbook for the New Healthcare Law”

Author: Betsy McCaughey

Rank: 20

Blurb: “Beating Obamacare is the essential consumer guide to understanding and preparing for one of the biggest changes about to take over Americans’ health care and family budgets.”

Review: “McCaughey is the nation’s expert on the topic.”

Customers Also Bought: “Atlas Shrugged” — both DVDs

Footnote: Sarah Palin gets credit for the line, but it was McCaughey who ginned up an anodyne detail about funding optional end-of-life counseling into mandatory euthanasia advice.

Somehow, this and her past membership on two medical-company boards aren’t included in the book’s publicity.

Beating Obamacare [Amazon]

Buy or Die [Stinque@Amazon Kickback Link]

“At least two people were injured Saturday afternoon in an apparent accidental shooting at the gun show being held at the North Carolina State Fairgrounds… A witness told WRAL that a gun went off after being checked by an official at a safety check-in location.” [via @JC_Christian]

Dramatis Personæ:

• Megan Carpentier, née Anonymous Lobbyist, fired from Wonkette on January 18, 2008, by Ken Layne: Executive Editor of Raw Story.
• Ken Layne, Wonkette editor/Designated Villain: Bought Wonkette, sold Wonkette, last seen cowering with other Gawker castoffs at The Awl.
• Jim Newell, Wonkette minion/Innocent Bystander: Last seen at Gawker Salon The Guardian Wonkette again New York Observer.
• Homofascist, openly aggressively gay non-ambassador, founder of Wonkette Protest Blog, January 19, 2008: Stranded at some Chicago dive bar.

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[WaPo]

In Brazil, they know how to sell hand sanitizers.

[BuzzFeed, via The Loop]

“Arpaio wants his army of 3,000 volunteer posse members to look like sworn deputies and sometimes perform the same duties. But an in-depth project by CBS 5 Investigates uncovered a number of posse members with arrests for assault, drug possession, domestic violence, sex crimes against children, disorderly conduct, impersonating an officer — and the list goes on.” [CBS Phoenix, via jwmcsame]