I was just in Union Square, and the place was filled with Obama supporters. There was an NBC camera crew complete with a satellite feed. I went up to the reporter and asked if they were there to cover Obama’s grassroot support, and she said in a super chipper voice, “no – we’re here to do a story on annoying commercials.”

I felt like she punched me in the bread basket.

Hillary’s campaign is aggressively courting the support of the country’s unions, but they should be very wary. From 1986-1992 Clinton was on the board of directors at Walmart, and helped them fight against unions. Here’s more, ABC Reports.

The New York Nerd’s man of the day is Hugo Nanofsky. His son was arrested 14 years ago in Florida for possession of a pipe. They impounded the car permanently, and this made Hugo furious. Hugo is a biochemist though, and trained his attention for 14 years on making sure noone else have to suffer this injustice. He set about inventing oranges that produce THC, the active ingredient in cannabis. It seems that Hugo has acheived this goal, and THC oranges are now very real. The seeds have been distributed. It is going to be years before the legal issues are sorted out, but the government won’t have much luck differentiating one type of orange from another in Florida. Here’s more

They hit the nail on the head:

Official Announcement:
The government today announced that it is changing its emblem from an Eagle to a CONDOM because it more accurately reflects the government’s political stance. A condom allows for inflation, halts production, destroys the next generation, protects a bunch of pricks, and gives you a sense of security while you’re actually being screwed!

Welcome to the party Qtrax! This new site is fully endorsed by all the major lables, and is 100% free. Not only will they carry the studio tracks, but also rare live ones as well. They plan to share the advertising revenue with the lables, in proportion to the popularity of their songs. This is great news for music fans. Here’s more.

This is What A Police State Looks Like

Fox News had Montel Williams on the morning show, and only wanted to discuss Health Ledger’s death. Montel let them have it, saying why are we going to spend 15 more minutes of news coverage on this when 28 soldiers have died so far this year in Iraq and they received no coverage.

Tongass National Forest in Alaska is our largest in the nation. It is pristine, with no roads anywhere within. Bush, in his last few months, has decided to change that. With one evil swoop of the pen, roads are going to be built, and the for sale sign on all this lumber was printed. I really hope this doesn’t get started right away, because I am sure President Obama would recind this travesty. Here’s more

Our new Attorney General Mukasey has furnished his new office, complete with a portrait of George Orwell. Just to refresh your memory, Orwell is the author of 1984, the book about the totalitarian government of the future, where all civil liberties have been taken away. Here’s more. Is it time to panic? Just as they hired Steven Colbert to host the White House press dinner, failing to see the irony in Colbert’s schtick, I believe Mukasey fails to see Orwell’s work as the warning it was intended to be, but rather a goal.