While our country continues to plummet into a seemingly irreversible and insurmountable deficit, it seems politicians everywhere continue to swim in their pool of gold coins (a la Scrooge McDuck), sh*t on their solid gold toilets (then wipe with Washingtons), and blow their noses on Benjamins. They understand the plight of the middle and lower class? Unlike the stock market, that’s a lot of bull. You ever wonder just how rich congress is? Our friends at Online Schools created an infographic that puts it all into perspective. Check it out after the jump!

Today’s WTF news items feature a potential Sarah Palin in the making in Tennessee, a government center in Fort Wayne, Indiana that should be named after a former illustrious mayor with a pretty funny name, and a burglar in Florida who just wants a job but won’t get a hand out with his pants down. Read more after the jump!

With so much information being exchanged over the web, the government has been cracking down as much as they can on what Americans can and can’t do on the internet. A new bill by West Virginia Senator Jay Rockefeller seeks to let the government completely crackdown and takeover the internet in case of an “emergency.”

With trailers popping up for his new movie The Day the Earth Stood Still pending release on December 12, we are reminded that in the movies Keanu Reeves is the answer. And at the same time, all over the news and in the media, Barack Obama is being touted as the new Keanu Reeves, capable of solving all our problems with some fantastical superpower. But please heed t… Click to read more

Okay, so a monk walks into a Best Buy. This isn’t a joke.

He buys three CDs, eight movies, two computer games, Adobe Illustrator CS3, the entire X-Files series, Microsoft Office Professional, and Rosetta Stone v3, so he can learn Swahili to communicate with his half-sister. The cost of all that? Easily over $2,500. Two weeks ago he bought Autodesk Maya… Click to read more

In the light of this July 4th, let’s remember, for a moment, why we celebrate this holiday–a day born of rebellion against an unjust system of Government, enacted by a people willing to stand up for what they believed.
As we stand today, engulfed by these tumultuous times, it seems prudent to go back to the wisdom of our beginning–our Decla… Click to read more

Bad news for horny college girls.
According to the Wall Street Journal, colleges and universities are gonna stop selling birth control at the same discounts they’ve been giving us for years, which is gonna be pretttttty costly. And, surprise surprise…who is the cause of this madness?
Our president!… Click to read more

I’ll be the first to admit that I did some messed up shit to my frenemies during my younger years. One time in middle school, my friends and I poured Snapple and mashed strawberries in a girl’s backpack because we were fighting for absolutely no reason.
Seeing as our military isn’t in middle school (though they are in a similar predicament: fighting for a… Click to read more