Associate of Karl Rove plays practical joke on him on his last day of work. This photo shows Rove ordering him to be shot (at least that’s how I see it).

-So the Pentagon is now supporting video games. No, not Grand Theft Auto. Not Manhunt 2. Not even Super Mario Brothers. No, our military is supporting “faith-based” entertainment. Faith-based, despite the George Michael reference, is wholly religious, and the game they are supporting is Left Behind: Eternal Forces, a military strategy game that takes place after the Rapture.

Having our military, which is fighting what some might refer to as a ‘holy war,’ sponsoring an evangelical Christian agenda…is that a good idea?

Tony Snow Will Crush You

-Tony Snow is resigning. Hurray! Now we get to hate someone else as much as we hate him! I have to say, he’s the first Bush White House spokesman I’ve ever seen that was as cocky as who he was speaking for. Remember how flustered Scott McClennan always seemed to be, or how hounded Ari Fleisher always was? Snow was like a sleazy used car salesman, which I liked, because it was soooooo easy to want him dead.

A bit of his conversation with Hugh Hewitt:

HEWITT: Are there any other resignations upcoming, Tony Snow?

SNOW: No, I’m not going to be…I’ve already made it clear I’m not going to be able to go the distance, but that’s primarily for financial reasons. I’ve told people when my money runs out, then I’ve got to go.

I like this conversation for two reasons. ONE: The implication that poor, poor Tony Snow is running out of money. Good thing he’s using his health savings account to pay for his fight against cancer (no, I’m not mocking him for having cancer, just his and his administration’s opposition to public health care). He must have been making minimum wage over at Fox Noise, and not much more at the White House. TWO: At least as a Republican, he’s sticking to his guns, and going where the money is.

You know they really just wanted to make out.

-I thought Karl Rove was taking time off to spend with his family? I guess he’d rather spend his time ripping on Hillary Clinton. He made these comments as a guest on the Rush Limbaugh show (I didn’t even know people still listened to him. I though Bill O’Reilly had stepped into his stinky shoes)…

On what Rove characterizes as Clinton’s ‘lack of support’ for our troops.

“I’m a little bit surprised that somebody with a record so weak on these things would somehow deign to lecture this president, who is very popular among the military and military families because they see him as a strong commander-in-chief who supports them, loves them, and gives them everything they need and want,” Mr. Rove said.” (I find something very 1984-Big-Brother about that statement)

-Mr. Rove said that Mrs. Clinton’s criticism of the president showed “a lack of vision” on her part.

I think he just has a crush on her.

Here’s the thing, though. Rove is leaving at a strange time. I don’t mean strange like the country is mired in an unpopular and ultimately doomed war (that he was an architect of), or that he has been under public scrutiny for his lies and illegal use of executive power. I mean strange like…why now? Why not at the end of 2007? There’s some story that the White House Chief of staff told all of Bush’s aides that if they stayed past Labor Day, they should expect to stay through the end of the term. Who tells Karl Rove what to do? Maybe Cheney, but that’s about it.

So that leads me to fear for the worst. Does Rove know something, and doesn’t want to be there when the shit goes down? If Rove is bailing, you know it has to be bad.

“FBI Chief Contradicts Gonzales Testimony

by LAURIE KELLMAN and LARA JAKES JORDAN, Associated Press Writers

WASHINGTON – The head of the FBI contradicted Attorney General Alberto Gonzales’ sworn testimony and Senate Democrats requested a perjury investigation Thursday in a fresh barrage against President Bush’s embattled longtime friend and aide.

In a third blow to the Bush administration, the Senate Judiciary Committee issued subpoenas to compel the testimony of Karl Rove, Bush’s chief political adviser, in connection with its investigation of the firings of federal prosecutors.“

The likelihood that Rove will ever testify? Not bloody likely.

Full story at the AP.

By the way, is that the most narcissistic photo you’ve ever seen?

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Rove, Lying, and Voter Fraud

File this under the catagory of, “Yeah, that’s what I figured.” Have you been paying attention to the whole voter fraud thing? Probably not. Here’s the deal. Republicans are notorious for trying to deny minorities the ability to vote, citing voter fraud as being especially prevelant in areas where people vote Democrat (Jim Crow never died, he just got politically correct). The last election, the one that Kerry folded so quickly on, hinged a little bit on what the Republicans called voter fraud. There wasn’t that big of a stink about it, but when people are contesting votes in states that were as close as Ohio, every one counts.

Where am I going with this? A supposedly non-partisan non-profit group called the American Center for Voting Rights began a ‘civilian’ investigation into what those dastardly minorities were up to. The Justice Department was ordered to make it one of their top priorities. When a bunch of the attorneys came up with the fact that there really wasn’t any voter fraud at all. Then they got fired.

Then Gonzales got caught.

It appears, like the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, that Karl Rove was behind the whole thing. What a non-surprise. Every time something pops up on the political landscape that attempts to manoever the Republican party into a more favorable position of power, but claims to be distinct from the government, well, it’s always this bastard. What, Valerie Plame is unmasked by a newspaper columnist Hmmm….whose work is that?

Ever heard of Cardinal Richelieu?

So, it looks like the American Center for Voting Rights has just vanished, according to Slate. Kind of odd, don’t you think?

Rove is running out of fall guys. I can only imagine the books and movies that will be about this guy in the years to come. He’s like Kissinger, I’m just waiting for him to win the Nobel Peace Prize.

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Electric Cars For a Midlife Crisis

Why are electric cars only sought after by grad students, vegetarians and Al Gore? Because they don’t appeal to the real car consumer: the 40-something man going through a mid-life crisis. Electric cars aren’t something that men purchase to compensate for their thinning hair and expanding waistlines. That’s what a Corvette is for.

Until now.

There’s a company out in Silicon Valley called Tesla Motors that aims to change all of that. Rather than a bunch of guys from Detroit or Japan, Tesla (named after Nikola Tesla, who basically gave us all of our technology for the 20th century) Tesla is run by a bunch of computer guys, who figured they could do a better job of making an electric car than GM, who royally fucked the whole thing up.

The cars don’t look like those pink bunnies, by the way. Those were made by Tesla Motors for shits and giggles, I guess.

This is what the car looks like.

I don’t go for sports cars, normally, but that’s pretty cool. All electric. 0-60mph in 4 seconds. 250 miles per charge. And you can charge it from a solar station you can install in your house.

Now that’s cool.