It looks like we won’t have Mike Lee to kick around after tonight, when he shames his fellow clones by going down in blazes in the Republican runoff for the Utah Senate nomination. Mike Lee’s last-minute flurry of emails to us Monday had the putrid smell of flop sweat, betraying the cardinal rule that Mike Lee Never Shows Fear. (Mike Lee smells bad enough in conventional circumstances, which is why there’s always a Cone of Distance surrounding him at movies.) Utah voters were also taken aback after the bombshell revelations that Mike Lee sponsored an East Coast horse race on Sunday and curses like a motherfucker on his blog.

Speaking from experience, we can honestly say that we wouldn’t trust Mike Lee to subclass an NSURLConnection. How can we trust him in the Senate?

Today’s WCHotD is Chile’s Mark Gonzalez, who came off the bench to score the winning goal in Monday’s game against Chile.

Prior to today’s achievement, his greatest accomplishment was getting fired and sent home in 2006 from the Chilean national team’s tour of Europe after he was found in a Dublin hotel room with three women.

A lot of these look like they’re close to you, nojo …

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I know SFL will be coming by with some beefcake later, perhaps.  But let it not go unnoticed that today was the day that the people at Korean Central TV wanted to show a game live to the people of North Korea.  The point was to show the North Korean people that they, in fact, could compete with anyone in the world and such.

Whoops.

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Per ESPN: “As the 7-0 loss to Portugal concluded, the North Koreans quickly halted Monday’s coverage. ‘The Portuguese won the game and now have four points,’ the Korean Central Broadcasting commentator said. ‘We are ending our live broadcast now.’ It then cut to factory workers and engineers praising North Korean leader Kim Jong Il.”

Best.  Segue.  Ever.

(Oh, and Kim was supposedly handling the whole strategy thing for the boys in South Africa.  That worked out well.)

Let’s set the Wayback Machine for November 2007…

JAYE: “Hundreds of billions of dollars — wow. Well, forgive me if I sound like a skepic, because that’s a lot of money. It sounds too good to be true. Congressman, is it for real?”

HAYWORTH: “It is for real. Now look, I understand the skepticism, in part because President (Ronald) Reagan used to say the greatest contradiction ever uttered was, ‘I’m from the government, and I’m here to help.'”

JAYE: (Laughs.)

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“Fearing that even marginal voter preferences for tea party candidates could spell doom in November, Republicans now claim that the dozen or more Florida Tea Party candidates running for statehouse seats are part of some Sunshine State shenanigans.” [TPM]

“A French prisoner killed his cellmate then sliced open his chest to remove and eat his heart, a court has heard. However, the man removed the wrong organ, and ate his lung by mistake.” [Telegraph UK]