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Barack Obama Drives Chevy Volt 10 Feet, Everyone Cheers [Photo Ops]

Barack Obama drove a car today for the second time since 2007! It was the Chevy Volt, the electronic car that's supposed to save America. Watch him sputter along for 10 feet and signal his approval before the adoring masses.

The Strange Case of the Mysterious Racist 'Tea Party Comix' [Tea Partiers]

The progressive webscape has been alight for the past couple days with the story of a truly amazing bit of racism—the Tea Party Comix.

Lindsay Lohan Shoots Paparazzi with Guns in Comedy Sketch [Revenge]

With her alcohol-monitoring SCRAM bracelet visible on her ankle, Lindsay Lohan smiles and poses like Marilyn Monroe over a sidewalk grate—then whips out two handguns and "settles the score with the media." The ShamWow guy is there, too.

30 Rock Live Episode Coming This Fall [Television]

Good (?) news, 30 Rock fans: NBC is going to air a live episode of the show on October 14th. So this will essentially be the November 15, 2003 SNL episode when Alec Baldwin hosted. Sounds good.

In a Pickle [Open Caption]

[Role model and Jersey Shore star Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi is carted off by the police for disorderly conduct today in Seaside Heights, New Jersey. Don't worry, JWOWW's on her way to post bail.

Charlie Rangel May Only Get 'Reprimand' [Ethics]

The subcommittee investigating Rep.

Charlie Rangel has recommended giving him a "reprimand"—a firm slap on the wrist, essentially—for his numerous terrible ethics violations, as opposed to the harsher "censure" or "expulsion.

ADL Sides With Bigots Against Ground Zero Mosque, Officially Outlives Its Purpose [Bigotry]

The Anti-Defamation League has issued a pathetic statement opposing Cordoba House, aka the "Ground Zero Mosque." While the ADL condemns the bigotry galvanizing Cordoba's opponents, and thinks proponents have "every right" to build there...

it says they shouldn't anyway.

Taliban Using Wikileaks' Afghanistan Leak to Hunt Down Informants [Wikileaks]

In an interview with Britain's Channel 4 News, a Taliban spokesman says they're using Wikileaks' enormous Afghanistan leak to identify and possibly punish Afghan informants. The moral calculus of this thing just got even more muddied.

When She Closed Her Eyes, She Could Smell It Wafting Gently in the Breeze: Cougar Bait [Open Caption]

[On the set of W.E.—the Madonna-directed movie about King Edward VIII's romance with American divorcée Wallis Simpson—the Queen of Pop interacts with one of her young stars.

Hippie Medical School Just Letting In Any Old Theater Major [Higher Learning]

How would you like to find out that your doctor's undergrad days were spent majoring not in chemistry or biology, but in reading lesbian poetry and smoking reefer? Yes, it is time to overreact.