America’s Hot New Political Trend [wonkette] Bengals’ Odell Thurman Reinstated after Two Year Ban [wait it out] McCain Kicks off “Forgotten Places” Tour in Alabama [buys $2,500 quilts] Priest tied to balloons floats off [no really, nobody can find him]

Clinton on Olbermann [profiles in courage] Salter: WaPo story on McCain is 99% fictional [smear job] In Defense of the Freak Show [Ross Douthat] Clinton Swats Down Drudge Story [Tom Bevan]

Rove Developing Outside Groups To Help GOP In Fall [Way to Win] Bitter Blogger Still an Obama Supporter [Big Head DC] The Story Behind the Pentagon’s Hidden Hand [fishbowlDC] Halperin: From the ‘gang of 500’ to ‘the six-way threat’ [Calderone]

This didn’t take long [Bitter Americans] Press Secretary to the Rescue [Grim] Congress to investigate BCS [too much free time]

Fire your flack; hire a blogger [Extreme new media] Responses to Real CL Ads [On the Ball] “Bitter” hits the campaign trail [JoMa] Romney’s Top Ten Why He Dropped Out [Ambinder] If you feeling like a pimp [Brush your shoulders off]

Every Calvin and Hobbes Ever [for FDC fans in AZ] How Blue Is Your Collar? [Paul Waldman] Reuters Gives 600+ Words to Nats’ 23 y.o. CF [Lastings Milledge] Pope Traffic Update [Metro Madness!]

Fox Anchor Son Asked McCain “hitting the sauce question” [Grella’d] Do we need another reason to hate Philly? [Flyers win 6-3] NBA MVP Race compared to The Wire [The Connect–Steve Nash] Harry Reid on Clinton vs. Obama [He’s Bitter]

How Many Five Year Olds Could You Take In a Fight? [24] The Moral Life of Cubicles [Office Space] Enough with “Elitism” [Ambinder] Pershing’s Player of the Week: Robert Byrd [Old School]

Official Masters Leader Board [Immelman!] Would you let Lenny Dykstra invest your money? [Player’s Club] Girls Night Out DC [Sheckys] Proctor & Gamble plans hip-hop music foray [Pringles Poppin’] Mark Penn Never Went to Class [Harvard Crimson] Stomp the Yard producer making movie about drug dealer [Clinton pardoned]

Rap represented in maps and charts [act a fool] Larry Craig intern application [wide stance encouraged] Reporters getting owned [take that!] The top 20 workout songs ever [iPod time] Enjoy the weekend! [TGIF]

Where to power lunch in DC [no Longworth cafeteria?] 14 Reasons to Fire Penn [Halperin] Pelosi Pooh-Poohs Dream Ticket [post buffet] Politico TV coming soon [Mike Allen TV] Markey holds hearing in Second Life [Virtual Losers] Wait here boss, I’m going out to my car [oddly enough]

Conservative Rapper Take on Obama [what?] Kevin Madden Playing on the Interwebs [Mitt for VP] House staffers vs. LegiStorm [Drudged] The Hill’s diet diaries [are they really following someone named BACON?]

Need a plane ticket overseas? [grab a paddle] Need jams while answering constituent mail? [musicovery] Studying for the LSAT? [super high me] IRS Taking 50,000 Calls A Day On Tax Rebates. [where my money at?]

Housing crisis has come to McMansion country [Leesburg, VA] Dan Senor’s Gamble [VP Condi?] Pulitzers for Drudge and HuffPo?  [Web vs. Print] Secret Service dresses the part [oddly enough] Michael Vick- starting QB once again [soapy athletics]

Up in the club [doing the bear rub] Posted DMV bribing hours [mad cabbie] People’s Choice for McCain’s VP [the fix] Memphis vs. Kansas [FINALS!] The Colbert Bump [h/t Yglesias] Mark Kilmer’s Sunday Show Review [1 man, 5 shows]