Needlenose

(Via Matt Yglesias.)

The latest in novel renewable fuel sources - one for which the U.S. and Western Europe have vast reserves.

Play the game!  Tip of the ‘Nose to Game Buddy.

Dubya checks what time it is.

From the Associated Press (via MSNBC):

President George W. Bush’s two terms in office have been marked by wars, a global financial crisis, and a steady stream of political opposition. But his official portrait, unveiled Friday at the National Portrait Gallery, shows him at ease and smiling, seemingly unfazed by eight years of tumult.

. . . Bush wanted painter Robert Anderson, a Yale classmate of the president’s, to give him a more informal look for his likeness at the National Portrait Gallery. Anderson painted the portrait to engage viewers with the president in a “personal and conversational manner,” according to an event program.

Isn’t it kind of curious that a president who was obsessed with presenting himself as a figure of unquestionable authority (a “war president,” the “decider,” endless self-references to being “commander-in-chief,” etc.) would suddenly decide to go casual for his official portrait?

Seems to me that the only times I’ve seen the Shrubster in shirtsleeves came when he was posing as engaged and working hard while touring the site of a natural disaster.  I guess maybe envisioning his legacy counts.

Watertiger, meanwhile, notes the special obstacle that the presidential artist had to overcome.

“As part of my administration’s commitment to diversity, I’ve chosen a member of the underrepresented dipshit poseur community…”

(Barack Obama and Interior secretary-nominee Ken Salazar, via the Associated Press.)

Dubya looks into an Iraqi reporter’s eyes and sees his sole.

(Via the Associated Press.)

Update:  Oops, I think watertiger won even before I posted this.

(Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich outside his home this morning, via Agence France Presse/Getty Images.)

“Because you’ve been such a good sport, I’m going to let you stand behind the sign for a few minutes…”

From Reuters a week ago, via the New York Times: “President Bush in Lima, Peru, on Saturday for a meeting that is his last scheduled foreign trip.”

Ann Coulter’s Jaw Wired Shut.  The real question is - how did she break her jaw?!?