KEN LAYNE

* One congressman and one recently-retired congresswoman found dead, separately, in their separate apartments, in Alexandria and Washington. Both Republicans. What Did They Know?
* One 44-year-old Hedge Fund manager found floating in the pool at his Florida mansion.
* Five nuclear-warhead missiles sort of mistakenly loaded on a B-52, which flies off, to Louisiana, for dubious reasons.
* Ha ha, I am one of those assholes who bought Countrywide because of those "Warren Buffett will buy them" rumors. Now it's in the news again, so I am set up to lose more money, huzzah!

* Are you Human Garbage? Then you'll want to make a "Blingee."
* This is a fine new LA record.
* Ha ha ha for like 60 seconds I thought this was Wilco ... but no, it's Old Robert Smith & The Cure. But then, yeah, it's Wilco!
* Fuck you, man. Fuck you.

Writing for Wonkette is bascially working the political-comedy assembly line eight fucking hours a day, and I rarely have any memory of anything because by 5 o'clock I'm just disgusted and exhausted and head for the hills with the dog so I can hike around for an hour and listen to music and look down at the clogged freeway with hatred and despair. But some blog mentioned the goofy little Alan Greenspan thing I typed the other day, and this part made me laugh, in retrospect:

Anyway, Al’s new book says all the democracy/weapons bullshit was just bullshit so we could go seize the Iraqi oil fields and make sure Saddam didn’t suddenly start a Powerful Navy and somehow take control of the Gulf and make oil cost $120 a barrel, which is a whole $40 more than it costs, er, today, which itself is quadruple the cost per barrel in, uh, 2003, when they invaded Iraq to control the oil supply.