I will probably never tire of photos of stupid Americans who prove that some form of intelligence test, especially for the so-called natives, is exactly what this country needs

Have you ever met a 75-year-old black man in this country that wasn’t angry? I mean, they have a few reasons.

—Chris Rock on Reverend Wright

Merlin would be the funny one, Scott would be the smart one and I would be the not funny one. Or Scott would be the witty one, Merlin the famous one and I would be the straight man - that is to say, I’d just sort of keep quiet except when I’m laughing. Or maybe Merlin would be the clown, Scott the thinker and me the one with glasses. Sometimes, we switch it up and Merlin plays Figurehead, Scott Team Captain and me Dead Weight. Regardless, it was decided I should be the one with little or no self-esteem, and I’m okay with that.

—Adam “lonelysandwich” Lisagor on the characters of you look nice today

Ars has a really great breakdown of the White House email system

And, more interestingly, how the Bush administration failed at basic accounting of that email system as required by the Federal Records Act

The premise, as I understand it, is that those who reject modern biology struggle professionally in the sciences.

—Steve Benen on Ben Stein’s absurd Expelled movie

Michael Moore would be dead within a week if he came to Brazil and tried to do the kind of shit he does here

—Brazilian filmmaker José Padilha, director of Bus 174 and Elite Squad responding to some criticism of his latest film. My buddy Kim turned me on to Padilha, I highly recommend Bus 174, can’t wait for Elite Squad.

Awesome. A phone with rabbit ears.

America, can you really vote for a liberal elite who doesn’t know how to work a coffee machine? SENATOR, DOES REVEREND WRIGHT HATE COFFEE MACHINES, TOO?!

And we have certainly paid a price for not being more specific on that banner

—White House press secretary Dana Perino on the ‘Mission Accomplished’ banner, now five years old. What, exactly, should that banner have said? How about an asterisk?

Grass below you, sky above