at this point, i can't remember how i came across this, but the guardian posted a really great spoof article on the 8-year presidency of al gore, under the title "The change we need: After eight long, tiresome years, President Al Gore won't be missed. Even if he did save the planet."

I think I started to dislike Gore when he stirred up a media storm after the Feds broke up the terrorist ring conspiring to fly airplanes into buildings back in 2001. He could have let it pass quietly, as Bill Clinton did with the millennium plot arrests in 2000. Instead, Gore held a press conference to milk it for political gain and scare us into a 15 cent per gallon gas tax. But who can afford to pay over a dollar and a half per gallon? No wonder we're resorting to electric cars these days.

i've seen things like this before, but i'll never not think it's funny. also, this article actually takes a different spin on it, blaming gore for the things he's "done wrong," which we know, in today's reality, to be far better than the situation we find ourselves in currently.

read the rest of the article here.

my bff bethany just sent me this and it was too good/funny not to share:



don't you think they should do one of these every week? those not so in-the-know (like yours truly, more and more often) would be able to keep up with things in kind of a shorthand version, and if nothing else, it's pretty funny!

so, so what, i'm still a rock star...

I love how facebook would like us to believe that (a) you can actually get $12,000 out of the government in this economic downturn (or ever, really), and (b) that's actually Barack Obama holding up that check. Way to photoshop, guys. Anyway, I haven't checked it out--because it's a scam, trust me--but here's the link.

true story.