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People will be arguing about George Bush's politics for a long time. He's certainly not a conservative or a libertarian, but the fact that he has been identified more or less as such for eight years has greatly damaged the reputation of those two philosophies. He's really not a liberal, either. He calls himself a "compassionate conservative," but what does that make him? Not a populist, exactly, but:

Burger King tries to be funny and edgy in its ads and almost always gets it wrong, looking mostly odd and dumb. Now it has even topped itself:

Burger King is under fire for a new advertising campaign featuring "burger virgins", impoverished villagers in remote parts of the world, taking part in Whopper versus Big Mac taste tests.

Ouch. Zogby did a poll right after the election that found Americans don't really trust the media and that Republicans are more distrustful than Democrats -- big surprise. Here's the distressing part:

Nearly 80% of respondents consider national television news to be unreliable and 84% consider radio to be unreliable.

According to 37.6% of those surveyed, news sources on the Internet are considered to be the most reliable

In Forbes, Reihan Salam, an associate editor of The Atlantic, has a nice write-up on Mitch Daniels as one of a long line of "sober Republican pragmatists" from which Indiana has benefited. Depending on what the landscape looks like in 2012, such a common-sense conservative could even be a good match in a run against Barack Obama:

Germans are weird -- and 14 other images you will

think are Photoshopped but really aren't. (via FARK)

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So, if you want a new car, try to get one that was made on Tuesday, and if you need surgery, ditto on the day of the week:

In a new survey, 57 percent of executives said Tuesday is the most productive day of the week for employees. Monday was the second most popular answer, although it appears to be losing favor: Only 12 percent of respondents ranked Monday as most productive, compared to 26 percent in a 2002 survey.

 We don't want to do anything too serious on our middle-of-the-week day off, so let's have us a YouTube holiday. First up, Homer Simpson shows us how to have a real fine BBQ pit.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLz0XC6xd00]

If you're gonna have a revolution, you have to offend somebody.

[youtube=http://youtube.com/watch?v=25sXOvChoaQ]

You have to know how to have fun in the back yard.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYQUDUQPG2c]

But remember that fireworks might upset your dog.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WC_k-VVcAT8]

Most people think they can be funny, but when it comes right down to it, few really have it in them:

HUNTSVILLE, Texas -- Condemned prisoner Patrick Knight was executed Tuesday evening for the deaths of an Amarillo-area couple without delivering on a promise to tell a joke in his final statement.

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