HTC is some company that makes some cell phones, and apparently stellar commercials. I hate commercials, but I love this commercial. I know I should be mad that it wants me to have a relationship with my cell phone, but instead I want to laugh and cry and go to Europe and just savor the sweet pain that is life, man. I'm telling you, this commercial is good shit. [HTC on YouTube]

We've all been waiting for the moment that will topple Obama's presidency and it's finally here: Stimulus Not An American Citizen/Secret Muslim Auto bailout Death panels Public option Only playing golf with men Gubernatorial elections. [Reuters]

A well-respected U.S. official has resigned his post in Afghanistan because he thinks the American presence is fueling the very insurgency it's trying to quell. Sound familiar? He also says he's not "some peacenik, pot-smoking hippie who wants everyone to be in love." Conveniently, the Mainstream Media neglected to publish the rest of the quote, which read: "But I am some tree-hugging Muslim homo who wants mandatory, taxed abortions for white people." [WaPo] 

The 2010 Census will count report gay couples living together in extreme sin as "husband and wife." This is a reversal on Bush-era policy, which held that The Defense of Marriage Act eradicated all known American strains of homosexuality. [CNN]