Barack bows to the Japanese emperor and the world–particularly, but not exclusively, conservative media–goes interculturally ignorant. Eugene Cho tries to bring some sense to the madness. UPDATE: Jake Tapper’s friend corrects both the right and the left.
Jon and Stephen are back!! (Stewart and Colbert, that is.) News A UN report concludes that both Israeli and Palestinian troops committed war crimes in the recent Gaza Strip conflict Japan’s new Prime Minister, Yukio Hatoyama, gets to work. Miscellaneous TMZ has the leaked audio of Barack on Kanye. Comedian Eddie Izzard nears the end …
Four months of 2009 left! News The CA wildfires continue to expand; also, they’re visible from space. Cash for Clunkers helps out a little. The US Open (tennis) kicked off in Flushing Meadow, NY. The Democratic Party of Japan sweeps aside the Liberal Democratic Party, who had been in power for 54 years. Green Blood …