Scenes from Pakistan - The Big Picture

Recovery.gov is up and running.

I’m filling out a application for a student loan and I see this. Do they really need to ask?

Wonkette:

Uncle Sam is depicted as wrinkled, wizened old man, who, we are led to believe, is unable to achieve or maintain an erection. He’s looking at a pill bottle labeled “Stimulus,” and thinking “Starts to work in 2 years?” The punchline is “If the government made Viagra.” GET IT? This is in marked contrast to the Viagra-for-anthropomorphized-national-symbols that private industry makes, which causes an immediate, intense erection that leads you to try to copulate with everything in sight for the next four hours, at the end of which you die of a massive heart attack.

(via jstn)

Penelope Cruz (via nytimes)

How often do you see that at the end of an Op-Ed?

A view from my window

I LEGO N.Y. - NYTimes.com

Calvin and Hobbes, brilliant as usual.

Snow! Updated: Where are you snow?

A New Photographer in the White House

The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether it works, whether it helps families find jobs at a decent wage, care they can afford, a retirement that is dignified. Where the answer is yes, we intend to move forward. Where the answer is no, programs will end. And those of us who manage the public’s knowledge will be held to account, to spend wisely, reform bad habits, and do our business in the light of day, because only then can we restore the vital trust between a people and their government. (via Transcript of Barack Obama’s Inaugural Address - NYTimes.com)

Cannes - 1979