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Ezra Klein secretly wants to be Peter Parker:
Pretty sure my Sunday column will include both a Warren G and a Spiderman reference. And this is in a column about regulation. #win
You know, John McCain does bear a striking resemblance to Clint Eastwood:
Obama: Our border is like our lawn, and John McCain just wants everyone to get the hell off it.
Spencer Ackerman muses on the English-language al-Qaeda magazine:
Authenticity aside, I want to read a regular feature from The Al Qaeda Chef: http://bit.ly/9ykTt1 Top Chef: Sana'a?
Speaking of terrorism and food:
Brought some delicious homemade pesto to eat for lunch on this plane, but fork was confiscated by security. #radicalizing
from now on i will refer to waterboarding as "free ice cream," as in "the detainee was given free ice cream"
Meanwhile, Christopher Hayes discovers that Obama has been replaced by a caricature of himself:
BREAKING: Obama positions himself in the sensible center of contentious debate, acknowledges arguments on both sides.
Irony alert:
Using the wide-open internet, a gentleman tells WWR that one freedom he thinks Americans are losing is freedom of speech.
Getting back to pop culture, remember when Mel Gibson lets his inner racist shine? Mad Mel is back, and boy, is he pissed:
Mel Gibson earns Lifetime Achievement Award from Nat'l Assoc of Racists, Sexists & Anti-Semites. http://bit.ly/b05iPI
Finally, what's the deal with Miles Grant?
Beck = Seinfeld. What's the deal with Count Chocula? Are supposed to be afraid of this guy? // @GlennBeck What's the Deal With Elena Kagan?
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