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Closet case Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-NC) has submitted legislation removing Ulysses S Grant from the $50 bill and replacing him with Ronald Reagan. “Every generation needs its own heroes,” McHenry said in a written statement. “One decade into the 21st century, it’s time to honor the last great president of the 20th and give President Reagan a place beside Presidents …

(Via – The Economist)

A pizzeria worker in Pennsylvania says that she’s been blessed by appearance of Jeebus in a plastic tub of tomato sauce. When Mary Louise Salerno saw Jesus Christ in a bucket of pizza sauce, her instinct was not to alert the media or even to tell many friends. She did not want people descending on her family’s West Scranton pizzeria, …

Here’s why all those hot concerts sell out instantaneously, even if you’re hovering over your keyboard at the moment they go on sale. Four guys in California hacked the CAPTCHA programs of numerous tickets sellers and used over 100,000 fake email addresses to harvest all the best seats. They’ve been busted and charged with fraudulently obtaining more than a million …

Very cool new clip from Gorillaz. It took me forever to find an embeddable copy, so this one may not last.

Sarah Palin appeared on Jay Leno’s relaunched Tonight Show last night to talk up teabaggers and Fox News. Note how the house band walks her in to Everyday People. Ugh. If you can stand it, Free Republic has a live thread from the show.

In a front page editorial, today the New York Times called for the resignation of Gov. David Paterson unless he can “account for his actions.” Gov. David Paterson gave New Yorkers his “personal oath” on Friday that he had never abused his office. It now seems clear that, at the very least, he tried to arrange a ham-handed cover-up to …

LOGO has rejiggered their casting call for their gay take on the Housewives phenomenon after their first concept about houseboys, Kept, resulted in few applicants. The new title: The Gay Socialites Of New York. Retch. (Via Brian Moylan @ Gawker)

HRC Back Story reports that Angelisa Young and Sinjoyla Townsend, a couple for 13 years, were first in line to get their marriage license in Washington, DC this morning. Marriages commence in three business days. DC Councilman David Catania, the sponsor of the bill, will be on hand all day to give out cupcakes to the couples in line. Congratulations …

An atheist group at the University of Texas is offering free porn to students who surrender their Bibles. The program is called “Smut for Smut.” Since most churches are happy to give you as many Bibles as you can carry, this seems like a great way to beef up one’s porn collection. Fox News bloviates below.