W. Mark Felt, AKA Deep Throat, the whistle blower who provided deep background and helped steer Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein’s Watergate coverage, has died. W. Mark Felt’s identity as deep throat was a very long held, highly sought after secret for decades.

And if people can mingle in the afterlife, let’s hope he never runs into Nixon. AWKWARD!

Ok. This is the kind of thing that is both hilarious, and decidedly not hilarious, all at the same time. At a joint press conference with the Iraqi Prime Minister, marking Bush’s last trip to the country he’s spent the bulk of his presidency trying to destroy, a local TV journalist threw not one, but BOTH of his shoes at the president, yelling, “This is a goodbye kiss, you dog!”

Secret Service, who’s reputation for lightning fast action and inpentrable protection is apparently somewhat overrated, then wrestled the man to the ground. I assume he is being raped with a billy club as we speak.

Impressively, Bush dodged both shoes with shockingly cat like reflexes, commenting after, “All I can report is a size 10″.

On one hand, I mean, a guy throwing shoes at the president is kind of funny. On the other, I kind of like to think that things like this can’t happen to the president. That somehow, his detail has things like this taken care of. Today it’s a pair of Keds, tomorrow, something more sinister.

And yes. I have video.

Why on earth is Still President Bush throwing gang signs?

Ok. One of the things I was looking forward to about life in post election America was the disappearance of Sarah Palin from the national stage. But will she go away?

Of course not.

No. She has, in defeat, discovered her inner media whore. She is making a sort of odd set of national interviews and is talking to any media outlet that will have her. She even spoke to “The Insider”, thus joining the prestigious ranks of such political luminaries as Tara Reid and Brittney Spears. To be fair, Barack Obama spoke to Mario Lopez and his Access Hollywood TV crew in the days before the election. What’s the diffrence you ask?

Easy.

Barack Obama has also done Meet The Press. And Face the Nation. And spoken to scores of other probing, legitimate media. Then, for a touch of levity before E-DAY, sat down with AC Slater. Sara Palin’s biggies so far have been Katie Couric (Disaster) and since election day, a man who many consider to be the Edward R Murrow of our day, Matt Lauer. And Charlie Gibson at one point. (Another Disaster). All three people either current or former daytime morning show people.

So I ask you. WHY WON’T SHE GO AWAY!?!?!?! This can’t be good for her. People need time to forget that she’s a moron. And it can’t be good for the Republican Party. The longer she stays in the media spotlight, the more Pundits and Reporters get to talk about how she doesn’t know that Africa is not it’s own full sized country, and how she can’t name the three Countries that make up the North America. IS SHE AWARE THAT THAT THE CAMPAIGN IS OVER? Perhaps someone should tell her that they’ve lost, and that at some point she should probably get back to, I don’t know, GOVERNING ALASKA! Unless Alaska is now located in the Green Room over at Fox News.

I will, therefore, stop talking about Sarah Palin. For at least a few months. That’s it. I’ve decided. I’m starting right now.

It feels like the entire world is here with me in grant park tonight. There are no words to describe the feeling here. Everyone is at the same time shocked, elated, and filled with relief. I will never forget it, and I will allways be grateful that I was here. It is the most outstanding thing that I have ever seen. It is beyond description. This night will live forever, until the end of our republic. And by the way, MaCain has made the call.