I am writing today to announce the closure of the New Mexico Independent. After three and a half years of operation in New Mexico, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news…
While environmental activists played their part yesterday during demonstrations at the capitol building, going so far as to dress up as solar panels and to sing the tune of “You Are My Sunshine,” their counterparts, the anti-cap-and-trade contingency who has…
Roughly one quarter of University of New Mexico students are unimpressed with the state’s flagship public school, according to a survey that questioned college students about their higher education experiences.
If you have no stomach for sarcasm, then I suggest you avert your eyes and click on another post, quick. The uber-snarks at Wonkette zinged our fair state and our tragic governor again today with a post about President Obama’s new nominee for secretary of commerce, U.S. Sen. Judd Gregg, R-N.H.
Yay a new era has dawned in Washington, bipartisanship forever, etc! After Barack Obama’s pudgy comic foil had to renounce the Latino Consolation Prize due to a corruption investigation, people wondered who could possibly replace Bill Richardson. And then the name “Judd Gregg” was floated, and people said, “well, he was pretty good in Fast Times at Ridgemont High,” plus he was a Republican, which meant that sneaky Barack Obama could get Gregg’s Democratic governor to appoint a Democrat to replace him in the Senate without a single Republican noticing!
“Pudgy comic foil?” Ouch. “Latino Consolation Prize?” Ack!
Wonkette has previously mocked Richardson for having a “bum beard” and returning to “beard farming” after losing the commerce post. Before being dumped from Obama’s Cabinet, Wonkette offered this summary of his presidential campaign:
Bill Richardson could’ve been the first Mexican president, and the first Western president since Reagan, and he is a smart dude who flies around the world on Mercy Missions or Diplomatic Things. But he’s a pretty lame campaigner, and is too fond of steak and booze and cigars and the ladies, so he never really had a shot at the nomination, even if he made the funniest campaign commercials.
Uhhh … you probably need a pink iguana chaser right about now, doncha? OK, here’s a video of two guinea pigs eating arugula (or dandelion greens or something) and kissing like the dogs in “Lady and the Tramp.” It’ll make you forget everything:
