Charlene S. Lugar, 77, was stopped shortly after 6:30 p.m. by an officer who noticed smoke coming from her car and damage to the front end of the car as she drove on Old Dominion Drive, Officer Bud Walker said. The officer pulled her over near Dominion Reserve Drive, ‘developed probable cause that she was intoxicated’ and arrested her. He did not release her alleged blood-alcohol content.

Tea Party Express co-chair Mark Williams, one of the most visible spokespersons for the tea party movement, has repeatedly called his political opponents ‘faggot’ on his blog.

‘I attended all those meetings that President Obama had with Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao,’ Huntsman said, referring to the Chinese president and premier.

‘I’ve got to say some of the reporting I saw afterward was off the mark. I saw sweeping comments about things that apparently weren’t talked about, when they were discussed in great detail in the meetings,’ he said.

It’s a pretty safe posture to assume the media is just totally getting stories wrong.

Voting for health care reform – and at the ultimate least, voting for that bill to get to a floor vote – should be a fundamental element of being in the Democratic caucus. If you’re going to be against it, you shouldn’t be there in the first place. There is a party opposed to reform of of one of the most important elements in American society. It is called the Republican party.

Senate Dems and their staffers have coasted along for far too long, protected from the world of actual politics because for so long they could do no more than toothless stunts and speeches. Now they’ve got to step up to the plate and deliver, and playing CYA wont’ cut it.

UPDATE: Chris Rock said it best.

N***as always want credit for some shit they supposed to do. A n***a will brag about some shit a normal man just does. A n***a will say some shit like, “I take care of my kids.” You’re supposed to, you dumb motherfucker! What kind of ignorant shit is that? “I ain’t never been to jail!” What do you want, a cookie?! You’re not supposed to go to jail, you low-expectation-having motherfucker!

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The shirts had Psalm 109:8 which says:

Let his days be few; and let another take his office.

The right keeps rooting against America.

And I’m sure this brand of rhetoric has nothing to do with it. Nothing at all.

Can we just give the south back to the Brits?

TMZ catches Jessica Simpson doing her best to jinx the Cowboys this weekend.

Dallas sucks, even when the Redskins do.

ALSO: Dallas cops are looking for a Tony Romo who knocked over a convenience store. Okay, so it’s not the same guy, but still…

One of the writers for Modern Warfare 2 defends the airport massacre scene in the game. He is wrong. The scene is indefensible.

I really love Modern Warfare 2, it is one of the best games I have played in years, and I highly recommend it. But the scene in which your character, as an undercover CIA agent with a Russian terrorist walks into a hotel and massacres hundreds of people, is simply a gratuituous shock scene. The level doesn’t make sense within the story, because even with some of the shady things CIA agents are required to do, mowing down people in broad daylight at an airport isn’t one of them.

It may seem silly in a game that’s major selling point is its graphic violence, but this scene feels tacked on and disconnected from the rest of the game. The relative free range you are given in the rest of the game dissolves in this scene, and it essentially works like one of those scenes in Saw: Wow, that was shocking. What’s next.

It’s pure marketing schtick and a blight on an otherwise beyond excellent game. Just dumb.

So I got a full-on belly laugh reading this objection to botox taxes from a cosmetic industry flack.

In addition, he said the tax would be especially hurtful in tough economic times that have prompted many newly jobless women to look for ways to make themselves more marketable to prospective employers. He said, ‘They’re competing with people 10 to 15 years younger than them and they want to look better.’

It’s a testament to the art of shilling that someone could make that argument with a straight face. Maybe the botox stopped him from laughing?

In one of the few announced primary races on the Democratic side, Rep. Allen Boyd, a Florida Blue Dog who voted against the House health care bill, is already trailing state Senate Minority Leader Al Lawson in a two-way race.

Lawson leads Boyd 35-31 in the poll, conducted by The Research Network, with the rest undecided. Allen Boyd’s re-elect number is just 39%, and his job approval number is 44.5%. While Boyd has generally good favorability numbers, Lawson’s numbers are sky-high, with a 47.5% favorability and just 12.4% unfavorable. By contrast, Boyd is up to 38% unfavorable. The poll screened for likely voters, and has a fairly large margin of error of ± 4.6%.

If you’re a Democrat, you vote for health care reform, period. If you vote no, the Democratic party will abandon you and the GOP will blow you up anyway.

Is the debt increasing? Sure, but we have to spend to get out of the hole we got into under conservative governing. The teabag crowd didn’t get angry about the debt until the President had a (D) behind his name.

Losing NY-23 candidate Doug Hoffman became the latest in an increasingly long line of conservative politicians to blame his problems on ACORN yesterday despite the complete lack of evidence the organization played any role in his defeat.

Pretty soon they’ll tell us ACORN was on the grassy knoll.