The Political Whore

Happy Thanksgiving! Keeping it short today, gotta run off and make some buttered toast and popcorn …

• It’s a Madge and A-Rod Thanksgiving!!
• BayWalk in foreclosure.
• 27-year-old named chief speechwriter for Obama White House.
• Bush’s and Obama’s thoughts on Thanksgiving. (Bush has thoughts?!?)
• Macy’s Parade on two networks.
• Coleman extends his lead over Al Franken.
• C’mon, if a Bee Gee can’t smuggle a little doobich on the plane, who can?
• Lawyer tasered at Tamp Code Enforcement Board hearing.
• “Your corn is sweeter, your potatoes are starchier and your turkey is much, much bigger than the foods that sat on your grandparents’ Thanksgiving dinner table.” Thanks, science.
• Lawsuit about early primary date seeks class-action status.
• Elections officials sued for not offering ballot en espanol.
• Tampa Bay’s Sarah Palin defends herself.
• Al Jazeera’s citizen journalism experiment.
• Hillsborough civic leader Bob Bondi dies at 74.

Work got you down? The state of world keeping you up at night? Are stress and anxiety eating you alive? Have I got the solution for you:

• Obama touches down in Jordan.
• Wachovia crumbles.
• McCain blames Obama for high gas prices. Up next, the JFK assassination and sinking of The Maine.
• The not-so-sordid tale of the McCain NY Times op-ed. At least one reporter thinks the Times did McCain a favor.
• What should St. Pete do with the Pier? The city would like you input.
• Texas prepares for an impromptu production of Hello Dolly.
• Madonna crumbles. 
• iPods about to get a price cut?

“Just tap the A button for a ‘juice boost.’”

• Clinton “personally apologizes to Obama” for her campaign labeling Barack a drug dealer. (I’m linking Time’s political page in the hopes that they add to their post, but there’s not much their yet.)
• In other political mea culpa news: Huck’s apologizing too. Maybe it’s the holiday spirit?
• Inflation? What inflation?
• Roger Clemens was taking the ‘roids? That’s about as surprising as Jodie Foster coming out of the closet.
• Jodie Foster comes out of the closet.
• Anybody want to buy a bus? It’s $225K and you get all the tacos you can eat.
• The Material Girl heads up this year’s Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction class.
• R.I.P.: Ike Turner.

UPDATE: Here’s some more on Hill’s apology.