• Funny or Die released an all-star video today of a bunch of former
SNL presidential impersonators pushing for the need to create a
Consumer Financial Protection Agency and haunting Barack Obama. You would think
that with such an impressive cast the video would be funnier… but check it out
and judge for yourself. Apparently, Funny or Die produced the segment in
conjunction with Americans for
Financial Reform.

• According to NPR,
Experts are now saying that the devastating tsunamiChilean earthquake may have done more damage than
the quake itself. The tsunami wreaked havoc along a 435-mile stretch of Chile’s
Pacific coast, and most of the 800 people already known to have lost their lives
were in those communities. that
followed the

• I don’t know about you, but I’m mildly obsessed
with cards and stationary. I would leave school to take a
part-time calligraphy class in 7th grade, just saying. So when I saw these greeting
cards, I basically died. Except ugph, am I the only who hates the word
“partner?”

• Defense Secretary Robert Gates outlined a
study on how to best begin allowing gays to serve openly in the military on
Tuesday. In a letter sent to senior staff, Gates detailed clear objectives for
the change, and noted that it “can only be successful if it is managed in a way
that minimizes disruption to a force engaged in combat operations.”

• In effort to woo the giant tech
company’s operations to its city, Topeka, Kansas has changed its name to Google,
Kansas. Seriously. It wants to become of the company’s fiber-optic broadband
test cities, and has gone so far as to change the city’s official logo on it’s
website to a Google brand.

• The first same-sex marriage licenses were applied for in D.C. today, with actual
licenses being issued on March 9th.

• Sarah Palin made her comedy
debut on The
Tonight Show last night, and of course talked about Family
Guy and all the problems with the mainstream media. Then, wait, give me
a second. Then, she actually did a stand-up comedy routine. She came out, and
did a monologue, about congress, and botox, and LA. I’m still confused and
disturbed by it.

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