Tuesday hodge-podge

I've been reading these internets today and have a random sampling of interesting tidbits found in these here tubes:

• Hello. I'm Billy Blades. And so are you.
• Today the Iraqi government says that they want the US out of Iraq -- including our military bases. This flies in the face of all of John McCain's plans for permanent bases in Iraq and a 100-years war. What will he doooo?!?
• Speaking of John McCain, the old coot thinks that he's much more highly regarded among vets than he really is. And btw, only people who have served have the right to question McCain's judgment -- oops! Make that: only people who have served AND who also agree with John McCain! And he doesn't want to talk about being a POW -- unless it's in a freakin' campaign commercial. Seriously?
• You've probably heard that those inbred polygamists who got busted earlier this year for letting old men knock up their daughters while they're still little girls have their own clothing line. It turns out they let their daughters dress like flashy harlots.
• Remember when there were only 3 channels on TV (well, four if you were lucky enough to live in an area with a PBS station)? Have things changed all that much? Not really.
• Now here are a couple of stories that made me laugh out loud today: 1) That the man who never read a book might pretend to write one. and 2) That there are people out there who would consider it appropriate to put the same clueless moron, who can't even quote Jefferson properly, in a classroom. With children.
• And speaking of George Bush, his buddy John McCain hates bloggers. Yeah, that whole free-flowing information thing sure does put a real crimp in the old bullshit spewer, don't it?
• Those wacky internetizens are not done with Jesse Helms yet. They're questioning his patriotism, calling him irrelevant and defeated, and remembering when his house was condemed! Oh, and Mike Huckabee loved and admired him.
• Charlie "110% Heterosexual" Crist is still in the news and Chris Matthews doesn't love him.
• Are you a quilter? How about quilting for our nation's wounded heroes?
• A guy in Cleveland, TN has figured out how to run a car on Chattanooga's greatest natural resource (more here)!
• A Norwich woman spent the morning with a bat in her bra (via BoingBoing).
• Are you ready to wear a bracelet when you get on a plane? One that zaps you with a shock if you don't behave?
• Here's the latest from the awesome Improv Everywhere troupe!
• Worst. President. Ever.
• six-course lunch and 18-course dinner?!? Sheesh!