US Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar was on The Daily Show last night and told Jon Stewart he wants to collect royalties from the oil industry and give the money to American tax-payers. Last time I checked, there are only a handful of oil companies, but there are millions of tax-payers, meaning the Obama administration wants to take money from minorities and line the pockets of the fat cats on Main Street. So much for change we can believe in!

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Here's a fast breaking CNN investigation: Why are some women so "miffed" at the president-elect? (Miffed, by the way, is what we ladies get when angry just seems too hard.)

It's his Barack-hard abs, right?

Oh, it isn't?

[The Obama Cabinet] might be diverse, but not everyone is happy. Some women's groups are disappointed. Among Obama's strongest backers during the election, they now say they don't have enough seats at the table.

That's because of Obama's 20 announced Cabinet-level posts, five went to women: Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano as homeland security secretary, Sen. Hillary Clinton as secretary of state, Rep. Hilda Solis as labor secretary, Susan Rice as United Nations ambassador and Lisa Jackson as Environmental Protection Agency chief.

The job isn't Cabinet-level, but let's remember that Obama also named Mary "Glutton for Punishment" Schapiro as head of the SEC. Still! Women make up 51% of the American population, and only 25% of Obama's Cabinet. What is the deal with that?

Obama has said he's picking people for their skills and not pandering to special interests.

Oh, well, of course. Barack Obama would never, ever pander to special interests. It's not his style.

And he'll swear to that on Rick Warren's Bible.

* The NYT reports on exclusion of word "gullible" from new edition of OED…

* …follows up by blowing lid off left-wing conspiracy in support of bogus theory of "gravity."

* White House calls out NYT for the blackness of its kettle.

* PZ Myers is rightfully honored to be recognized by Andrew Sullivan as one of the best purveyors of "divisive, bitter and intemperate left-wing rhetoric."

* Will Barack Obama take the oath of office on a homosexual atheist's bible?

* Dick Cheney and Joe Biden need to get a room already.

* Al Franken leads Norm Coleman by even more people than went to see that Stuart Smiley movie.

Today, Barack Obama officially announced that New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson will be stepping up as Secretary of Making Sure There's a Latino in the Administration.

I was going to embed some footage from the press conference, but then I remembered that I really don't care all that much — and we wrote about this two weeks ago — so, instead, I'm gonna embed this…

There's gotta be room somewhere in the administration for that chicken.

There just has to be.

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Well, Barack Obama just gave his (by my count) 413th press conference since being elected as the next president. This time around, it was to introduce his national security team.

The rundown goes like this…

* Attorney General: Eric Holder – AKA black guy with moustache

* National Security Advisor: Gen. James L. Jones – AKA clean-cut, avuncular white guy

* Secretary of Homeland Security: Janey Napolitano – AKA Hobbit woman

* Secretary of Defense: Robert Gates – AKA token Republican

* Ambassador to the United Nations: Susan Rice – AKA pixie woman

And, of course, the big surprise was his choice for Secretary of State: Hillary Clinton. Wow! What a shocker! I never, ever in a billion years would have guessed that one. Amazing, how they managed to keep a lid on that choice for all these weeks, with no leaks to the press or anything!

Man, you'd think a choice like Hillary Clinton would have dominated the news cycle for the past three weeks, rendering the actual announcement as little more than a boring bit of extra news that just gets stuck at the end of a really not all that funny post that most people probably aren't even going to read till the end.

Yep. Exciting news.