Former Synthesis Band You’ve Never Heard Of…OF THE DAY!!111, Russian Circles is up to some big shit. They’re new full length, the Matt Bayles-produced Station is basically one of the raddest records of ‘08, and after their current tour with Daughters, they are hitting the road with some random band named Coheed and Cambria. Check out an interview with the band on the front page and learn about the realest shit to come out of Chicago since Obama.

Yep, that’s right. One day after a black man got nominated by his party to run for president for the first time evar in the U.S. and A. Washington D.C. may now get wiped off the face of the earth by a tornado. Well, maybe not wiped off the face of the earth, but there is a tornado warning in effect until 8pm tonight, and there is sure to be some hecka extreme weather.

Ron Paul and David Duke are probably hanging out drinking a tall can somewhere laughing.

YES.

The first black man to be elected the Democratic Presidential Nominee. YES.

Word on the street here is that Fox News isn’t looked that fondly upon around the office, and until Rupert Murdoch buys us out like he bought Myspace, I don’t think it’s going to change very soon. Oh, speaking of the neo-fascist soul eaters that is Fox News, their contributer Liz Trotta accidentally made a little slip up on air, stating that assassinating Ossama or Obama would be a grand thing. Cute.Direct quote, anyone? “…and now we have what some are reading as a suggestion that somebody knock off Osama, umm, ah…Obama, well both if we could…haha….” @1:34. Check the video.

First Mike Huckabee, now Hillary Clinton, gently easing the idea of an Obama assassination into the zeitgeist, the latter invoking the assassination of Robert Kennedy during the 1968 presidential race to explain her reluctancy to drop out of the race during an interview with the Sioux Falls Argus Leader editorial board Friday.

There’s a reason why Hunter S. Thompson thought fairly well of George McGovern (well, for a politician anyway…) - his idealism didn’t stand in the way of his reason. (Maybe. It’s been a while since I read Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ‘72. I kinda forget the details, except the part where Thompson talked football with Nixon). Now once-Democratic Presidnetial candidate George McGovern, a longtime Clinton supporter, has pulled his endorsement and is now backing Barack Obama.

From Times OnLine:

Senator McGovern had been a high profile Hillary Clinton supporter but today he insisted that she had virtually no chance of winning. The 1972 Democratic presidential nominee said he was endorsing Senator Barack Obama after studying the returns from the North Carolina and Indiana primaries.

“I will hold them in affection and admiration all of my days,” he said of the Clintons, close friends from his early political career.
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“She has run a valiant campaign. Hillary, of course, will make the decision as to if and when she ends her campaign. But I hope that she reaches that decision soon so that we can concentrate on a unified party capable of winning the White House next November.”