In today’s World Cup action, the returning champions Italy – who in my opinion never should have been in the 2006 finals – were sent packing back to Rome after losing to Slovakia by a score of 3-2.

This means we won’t have the smoldering Italians like nekkid Fabio Cannarvo to feast our eyes on anymore.

Nor will we have another hot Italian mess, Daniel DeRossi, who is mercurial in attitude and likes to take his clothes off on the field. And I’m not talking about his jersey, either.  And so he’s today’s World Cup Hottie of the Day. I’m not a big fan of straggly facial hair, but it has its place.

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“The more interesting point to be made about Palin is how toxic she’s become among the broader electorate. In fact, buried in the internals of the new NBC/Wall Street Journal poll is an amusing number: A majority see a Palin endorsement as a clear negative.” [Plum Line, via Political Wire]

Coincidence? Or the hand and judgment of God?

Or — we’re just spitballing here — criminal recklessness?

Nah. Couldn’t be that.

Is oil catastrophe fulfillment of Genesis prophecy? [WND. Of Course.]

David Jungerman had a farm,
ee-i-ee-i-o.

And on that farm he took in $1 million of government subsidies,
ee-i-ee-i-o.

With a price support here and a price support there,
Here’s a price support, there’s a price support, everywhere a price support.

David Jungerman is a fucking hypocrite,
ee-i-ee-i-o.

Farmer who put up sign claiming Democrats are ‘party of parasites’ has taken $1 million in farm subsidies [ThinkProgress]

Monica Lewinsky went to college in Portland. Al Gore allegedly demanded sexual favors and made “unwanted sexual contact” on a masseuse in his Portland hotel room in 2006.

Coincidence? What’s in the water in the Willamette River?

Where the National Enquirer went yesterday, the Washington Post and New York Times follow today.

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To be honest, we don’t trust Gawker Media these days. What began as a charming collection of rascals has evolved into a ravenous linkbait machine. Anything that appears in one of their blogs has to share the grain of salt we usually save for Politico: It may be true, but we’d feel more comfortable with a second source, from some joint that’s not hopelessly devoted to pageviews.

Most of the time we just ignore Gawker Media entirely — it’s been a long time since we frequented any of Nick Denton’s establishments. But sometimes they still cross our path, especially now that their posts are being syndicated elsewhere. (Is it really a wise use of TPM’s investment capital to run Gawker crap that sullies its growing reputation?) And they do show up on occasion in Memeorandum and its sister sites, the Google News of blogger chat.

Which is how we stumbled across Jezebel’s story on the Daily Show:

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“We don’t want the World Cup. We don’t like the World Cup. We don’t like soccer. We don’t want anything to do with it. You can package it any way. You can spend all kinds of money. You can force it on our television sets. We will not enjoy the World Cup.”

This might have been up the flagpole on a bunch of blogs run by dirty hippies, but it bears repeating.

Glenn Beck?  Have a big ol’ slice of this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_2m4EH7-0g