Odd that in her quest to perpetually release the hounds, @SarahPalinUSA is doing to Joe McGinniss what she claimed he'd do to her. • #media
Comedy Central funnyman Stephen Colbert pitches an oil-spill solution that's no less odd than any of the others.
if bp can't stop the leak, maybe they can make it look better by putting one of those floppy used car lot balloon men over it
The Washington Post's Dave Weigel is all about the inverted pyramid.
Lede WIN http://bit.ly/bNhnJa "THE WEEKLY STANDARD has obtained Sarah Palin's imminent Facebook post on the Israeli Flotilla incident."
Enviro-blogger delrayser will probably not be the last to try this one.
Don't really have a good excuse for not posting anything to Twitter this morning, so I'm just gonna say my saw was stuck.
ABC News's Jake Tapper launches a hashtag that we hope doesn't trend.
our neighbors are digging a geothermal hole 5,000 feet into the earth's crust. What could go wrong? #SatanReleased
Julian Sanchez of the Cato Institute points us toward probably the weirdest thing we'll see today.
Oh dear. @ezraklein has a fan http://j.mp/9J3oq1
Joke site Fake AP Stylebook clarifies a rule we can never keep straight.
Only spell it "errbody" if literally each person in the club is gettin' tipsy.
And speaking of new hashtags, the tongue-in-cheek #obamasfault is catching fire in Twitterland. Below, a sampling of some of our favorites:
Flash doesn't work on the iPad and never will #obamasfault
stubbed my toe on that end table I was able to buy with my tax refund #obamasfault
Al and Tipper Gore getting a divorce. #ObamasFault
Earth Spins Counterclockwise #ObamasFault
@h2okev The Dinsoaurs becoming extinct? #ObamasFault
Why the Coyote can't catch the Road Runner... #ObamasFault
Firefly only aired for half a season. must be #obamasfault
The custodian just offered me a lap dance. #obamasfault
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