Nicaraguan troops accidentally invaded Costa Rica earlier this week. Now the Nicaraguan government is blaming Google maps: "There is a bug in Google, we sent a note to the company to rectify the map," said the Deputy Foreign Minister.
It's time for another edition of "Clips G4 Doesn't Want You To See," The Attack of the Show! segment this little embarrassing nugget of hilarity comes from is conspicuously absent from G4's official website. Video inside!
According to ABC News, more than a quarter of translators working with soldiers in Afghanistan didn't know how to speak Pashto or Dari. Which explains the latest reports that put Osama bin Laden in a 24-hour Kabul diner.
Sarah Palin wrote on her Facebook page that building a mosque near Ground Zero is an "intolerable mistake." It was removed by an automated Facebook algorithm. It wasn't an anti-Palin algorithm: It was a mistake, and Facebook has now apologized.
So Hillary Clinton really did blow the administration's rollout when she told an Ecuadorian television interviewer that the administration would sue over Arizona's immigration law, which a Justice Department official has now confirmed. How "old Hillary Clinton" of her.
John Boehner and fellow Republicans are, naturally, furious at freaking Rep. Joe Barton for apologizing to BP earlier this morning, at the beginning of Tony Hayward's hearing. Why did he do that? He could lose his fancy committee seat!
Someone in the White House went overboard last night, celebrating Sen. Blanche Lincoln's primary win over union-backed challenger Bill Halter and saying, "Organized labor just flushed $10 million of their members' money down the toilet on a pointless exercise." Really?
A rogue employee of the British Foreign Office wrote a satirical (?) memo with suggestions for the Pope's September UK visit. Included: "launch of 'Benedict' condoms" and "Open an abortion ward". Now the British government has apologized.
Aspiring television people: NBC's got a job offer for you! Apply now to be an NBC page, working on famous, still-existing shows The Jay Leno Show and The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brian [sic]. It was posted last month.
Justin Bieber on Alexander McQueen:"I think he is very original." Reporter: "Unfortunately, he died."
People falling is funny enough. But news anchors falling when they're trying to reach across the table? That's enough ingredients to get a stew goin'.
The Teabagger who heckled the guy with Parkinsons is totally sorry.
After the health care bill became the health care law yesterday, Joe Biden dropped an f-bomb heard 'round the world. However, this was one of Biden's least egregious gaffes as it was accidental. The others are just PR nightmares.
So this happened this morning, on local cable news station NY1. To be fair, both Snipes and Congressman Charlie Rangel have very good excuses for not paying their taxes. [Via]
Did anyone else catch that bizarre noise broadcast in the middle of Kathie Lee and Hoda's show? We had to rewind the TV twice to make sure it wasn't a glitch on our end. Conspiracy theorists: please weigh in!
According to a confidential Republican party fundraising presentation someone left in a hotel, the RNC is putting "the Fun Back in FUNdraising" and the Blatant Manipulation back in Fear-Mongering.
What's with everyone walking around with temporary tattoos on their foreheads today? Is this a meme we're not aware of? Even Joe Biden has one! Does it have something to do with cats? Oh, it's Ash Wednesday? Carry on, Catholicism.
George Stephanopoulos acknowledges that he should've pressed Rudy Giuliani on his insane comments this morning.
The "Tea Party" movement—a frothy mix of angry white populism and well-funded professional political campaigning—is about taking our country back from the socialists, and also about holding up terribly embarrassing signs. Here's one with a really bad word!
