Sandy Scalpers Join Long Line of Douchebags

The proceeds from the "121212"  concert, featuring Eddie Vedder, the Who, Paul McCartney, Kanye West, Alicia Keys and Bruce Springsteen, are intended to benefit the victims of Superstorm Sandy. So it's especially heartening to see a ticket sold for $60,000.

Except the ticket was sold on the secondary market by scalpers and almost none of the money will reach its rightful beneficiaries because everything is terrible.

Motivated by outrage–and, perhaps, his sixth sense for media attention–Sen. Chuck Schumer is calling for online sellers like StubHub to prohibit sales of charity tickets. In the meantime, the Sandy concert scalpers have joined a long, undistinguished list of assholes who have tried to ruin charity events in the past:

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Joe Biden Is a "Homeboy" Who "Gets It"

And then, once again, Joe Biden opened his mouth with predictable results…

Seeking to reassure victims of Hurricane Sandy following a tour of the damaged boardwalk in Seaside Heights, N.J., Vice President Joe Biden told residents Sunday that he spent a lot of time on the New Jersey shore while growing up and that they’ve got a "homeboy" in the White House who "gets it."

That, I believe, is the very definition of self-negating statement.

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Our Endorsements: Get Your Gloat On

* The dangers of gloating.

* Ron Pauls of the word, UNITE!

* Do your homework before you set off to Australia.

* The world's October Facebook feed, from College Humor.

* Beautiful visual story of the night(s) the lights went out in NYC.

* Kids make everything voters went through this year fun again.

* Jimmy Kimmel takes the slow boat to Florida's election outcome.

* David Letterman and Brian Williams get medieval on Karl Rove.

* Speaking of which, Louis C.K. is doing two benefits for Staten Island.

* Pauly Shore raps about President Obama on Marc Maron's WTF Podcast. So…yeah.

Tags: Barack Obama, Brian Williams, College Humor, Daily Links, David Letterman, Facebook, Florida, Get Your War On, Huffington Post, Hurricane Sandy, Jimmy Kimmel, Louis C.K., Mitt Romney, New York City, The Onion

Tweet Untweet: Romney Betrayed

I hope Romney has some good girlfriends and a Cosmo for this whole Chris Christie thing.

— Janie Haddad(@janiehaddad) November 1, 2012

Michael Bloomberg Endorses Barack Obama, Science

Scientists are always throwing around a bunch of "evidence" for this totally make-believe thing they like to talk about called "global warming" or "climate change" or "liberal bullshit." Of course, intellectually-superior conservative politicians aren't getting fooled. I mean, has anybody ever even come up with any evidence to prove that this "evidence" is real? No!

Well, until now, at any rate. Given the recent events surrounding Hurricane Sandy, conservatives may have finally found their first bit of evidence linking potential disasters with global warming. And his name is New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg…

Mr. Bloomberg, a political independent in his third term leading New York City, has been sharply critical of both Mr. Obama, a Democrat, and Mitt Romney, the president’s Republican rival, saying that both men have failed to candidly confront the problems afflicting the nation. But he said he had decided over the past several days that Mr. Obama was the best candidate to tackle the global climate change that the mayor believes contributed to the violent storm, which took the lives of at least 38 New Yorkers and caused billions of dollars in damage…

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Tags: Barack Obama, Climate Change, Hurricane Sandy, Michael Bloomberg, Natural Disasters