Rush Limbaugh turned himself into authorities in Florida on charges of prescription drug fraud on Friday. This is all part of a two-year long probe. Maybe Rush should consider moving to Mexico (From Reuters).

Conservative radio commentator Rush Limbaugh turned himself into police in Florida on Friday and was charged with prescription drug fraud as part of a probe that began more than two years ago, authorities said.

The News Hound reports:

Bill O’Reilly expressed sympathy for poor Limbaugh because the Leno and Letterman will be laughing at him tonight but Napolitano assured him that Rush would keep all his listeners. O’Reilly made sure to stress once again that it was all politically motivated.

And to that, I can only say “ha, ha!”

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Heard about this incident on the Howard Stern Show: Andrew “Dice” Clay, comedian extraordinaire (“The Adventures of Ford Fairlane,” “Wacko“) is interviewed on CNNfn, for whatever reason, and the guy doing the interview makes some dumbass assumptions based on the Diceman’s signature gym gloves.

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The Smithsonian unveiled former president Bill Clinton’s portrait a couple of days ago, and some complained that his wedding band is missing from his finger, others that the portrait’s likeness is more of a Ted Koppel, etc. The portrait stands more than eight feet tall, and is displays the president in a more relaxed environment. To me, and mind you, I don’t dislike Clinton, it looks like he just left the presidential water closet (via Yahoo News).

(Bill Clinton) took a casual approach to the portrait. “If you grew up as I did, portraits were pictures of dead people,” he said.

Clinton went on to highlight the successes of his presidency. He urged others to remember that those who matter are those affected by government, not those in the government portraits.

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Por personal use, anyway. A new federal law will make it legal for Mexicans to possess small quantities of marijuana, cocaine and ecstasy. The Congress has already approved the measure, and President Vicente Fox is slated to sign the bill (from Fox News).

The bill, passed by Mexico’s Senate on a 53-26 vote with one abstention, has already been approved in the lower house of Congress. U.S. officials had no immediate reaction on what this means for Mexico’s fight against drug trafficking — or the vast numbers of vacationing students who visit Mexico.

“The presidency congratulates the Congress for approving the reforms,” presidential spokesman Ruben Aguilar. “This law gives police and prosecutors better legal tools to combat drug crimes that do so much damage to our youth and children.”

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(From Fox Sports.) Only in his nightmares – and in a television commercial to promote a Brazilian soft drink.

Maradona reportedly received US$150,000 (€120,720) from a Brazilian advertising company to appear in the commercial, which has been broadcast throughout Brazil lately.

The ad begins with Maradona lined up side-by-side with stars Ronaldo and Kaka, singing the Brazilian national anthem. Then Maradona suddenly awakens, on his bed and wearing the blue-and-white of Argentina.

“What a nightmare,” he says.

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The Peking Duck urges readers to read this column by Bob Herbert, which really reveals nothing new to myself or like-minded people. As my response has been to conservatives complaining about being sooo disappointed with their inept president and the neo-cons behind him: “No shit, Sherlock.” Would Al Gore have been this bad? (Full column also at donkey o.d..)

The nation seems, very belatedly, to be catching on to the tragic failures and monumental ineptitude of its president. Mr. Bush’s poll numbers are abysmal. Republicans up for re-election are running from him as if he were the bogyman.

Callers to conservative talk radio programs who were once ecstatic about the president and his policies are now deeply disillusioned.

The libertarian Cato Institute is about to release a study titled “Power Surge: The Constitutional Record of George W. Bush.” It says, “Unfortunately, far from defending the Constitution, President Bush has repeatedly sought to strip out the limits the document places on federal power.” While I disagree with parts of the study, I certainly agree with that particular comment.

In the current issue of Rolling Stone, Sean Wilentz, a distinguished historian and the director of the American Studies program at Princeton University, takes a serious look at the possibility that Mr. Bush may be the worst president in the nation’s history.

What in the world took so long? Some of us have known since the moment he hopped behind the wheel that this reckless president was driving the nation headlong toward a cliff.

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About 45 seconds into the round in this video, Wladimir Klitschko hits Chris Byrd so hard I thought Germany might split in two (again).

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Maureen Dowd of The New York Times writes about Bush’s comments on rising fuel costs (Via Tennessee Guerilla Women):

Trying to calm the yips in his party and the country over exploding gasoline prices, the president sounded a bit like a wild-eyed Ozone Man himself yesterday, extolling the virtues of alternative fuel derived from cooking grease, sugar, grass, wood chips, soybean oil and corn.

But then he got ahold of himself. “You just got to recognize there are limits to how much corn can be used for ethanol,” he said, standing in front of a bucolic mural. “After all, we got to eat some.”

You could run a fleet of S.U.V.’s on the gas that W. was spewing about fuel. Bill Clinton would have been more likely to crack down on fast food than W. and Dick Cheney would be to crack down on Big Oil.

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The U.S. could have begun developing alternative fuels 30 years ago if Dick Cheney hadn’t helped scuttle an ambitious plan in the Ford administration.

By the time these guys get gas from cooking grease, global warming will have us cooked.

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The continuing saga that is the Duke rape case has become so ubiquitous that the always-turned-on TV at my workplace blaring about it has become nothing but white noise with the ever-present 30-minute special, be it on CNN or MSNBC, about the case. The overexposure, unfortunately, has come so hard and so quick that it is the unfortunate truth that I now know nothing about the case. So before the covering of the story becomes the only story to tell about the whole thing, I’m picking one source to catch up on the event and try to digest it to put some perspective into whatever it is that the talking heads have anchored as their solution to not following the important stories they should be covering.
(I picked this story from Newsweek, why not?)

From the beginning, the case has provided a tawdry real-world blend of true crime, high life and low manners, for the likes of novelists John Grisham and Tom Wolfe. Raunchy rich kids. Town-gown conflict. Raw racial politics. A bedeviling forensic puzzle. But the denouement may be tragic for everyone involved, and the only sure outcome is the iron law of unintended consequences. The story has freakish turns, but it is also the product of a widespread college-age culture that proud parents do not wish to examine too closely: future Masters of the Universe who sometimes behave like thugs.

Reading the story, however, will not distract me from finding other nuggets brought on by the sordid affair, including something that my radar missed late last month: Rush Limbaugh made an unfortunate choice in the verbiage he used to describe the alleged victims in the case while talking about Jesse Jackson’s trip to New Orleans.

He’s trying to figure out how he can get involved in the deal down there at Duke where the lacrosse team — uh, supposedly, you know, raped, some, uh, hos.

He was quickly called on it by a listener in Bryan, Texas, and Rush quickly stumbled through what he may have considered to be an apology. (From Media Matters.)

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On the cover of the Rolling Stone:

George W. Bush’s presidency appears headed for colossal historical disgrace. Barring a cataclysmic event on the order of the terrorist attacks of September 11th, after which the public might rally around the White House once again, there seems to be little the administration can do to avoid being ranked on the lowest tier of U.S. presidents. And that may be the best-case scenario. Many historians are now wondering whether Bush, in fact, will be remembered as the very worst president in all of American history. (Story by Sean Wilentz on rollingstone.com)

Plus, the story of two (or is it just one) cartoons, at gawker.com.

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