Drill deep and don’t spill a drop with Oil Spill Condoms [Grist, via Dodgerblue]

“North Korea’s football team has been shamed in a six-hour public inquisition and the team’s coach has been accused of ‘betraying’ the reclusive leader’s heir apparent following their failure at the World Cup, according to reports.” [Telegraph UK]

Attention, Cannabis-Americans! Dianne Feinstein wants to harsh your mellow:

In the name of saving children from candy-flavored methamphetamine, the U.S. appears on the verge of mandating more than a year in jail for anyone who cooks up a batch of pot brownies.

A bill by California Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein that has recently reached the Senate floor has cannabis advocacy groups concerned that potent, medical-grade edible products would become a higher crime carrying weighter sentences, ostensibly to protect children from ingesting strawberry-flavored meth.

Wait: Meth?

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Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) recently was featured in ESPN’s SportsCenter for an amazing catch in the annual Congressional Democrat v. Republican softball game, but yesterday’s performance on the House floor is even better.

The House Republicans were able to summon enough votes to defeat legislation that would provide medical care to 9/11 first responders and survivors who were sickened by the toxic stew of chemicals at the World Trade Center. Weiner called them out in style.

Update with a video of King and Weiner in a bitchslap on Fox after the jump. (HT Rptrcub)

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TH_dKfBI40

The Management regrets to announce that this morning’s previously scheduled post, If the iPad is Just a “Consumption Device” Then So Are Books, You Fucking Geek Posers, has been canceled so that we might bring you this very special English lesson from Korea.

Parts of the audio are, how you say, Not Safe For Work. Other parts are likely Not Safe For A Certain Stinque Patron’s Parents, although we lack the linguistic competence to judge for certain, and know better than to trust subtitles.

As you watch, and, perhaps disregarding our warning, listen, remember to bear this in mind: These people produce our cartoons.

[via Kottke]

Rep. Mike McMahon (D-NY) has fired his reelection finance director after she compiled a list of more than 80 donors to McMahon’s opponent who she said are Jewish to the New York Observer. She provided the paper with a list of donors entitled “Jewish Money Q2.”

From the Observer: McMahon’s (former) finance director, Jennifer Nelson, who is Jewish, complied a list of Jewish donors to one of McMahon’s potential Republican opponents, an ex-FBI agent Mike Grimm.  A spokesperson for McMahon’s campaign told the Observer that Nelson identified the donors as Jewish because “she knows a lot of people in that community” and could recognize their names.

[SFL: Nelson? That sounds more like a shiksa name. Carry on.]

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Ayrton Senna drives the hopelessly over-engineered Honda/Acura NSX.  How do his feet heel-and-toe like that?