Poor Rush Limbaugh. It seems Wanda Sykes was mean to him at the big White House Correspondents’ Dinner.

“Rush Limbaugh said he hopes this administration fails,” Sykes said. “So you’re saying, ‘I hope America fails’, you’re, like, ‘I don’t care about people losing their homes, their jobs, our soldiers in Iraq’. He just wants the country to fail. To me, that’s treason He’s not saying anything differently than what Osama bin Laden is saying. You know, you might want to look into this, sir, because I think Rush Limbaugh was the 20th hijacker. But he was just so strung out on OxyContin he missed his flight.”

Sykes then said, “Rush Limbaugh, I hope the country fails, I hope his kidneys fail, how about that? He needs a good waterboarding, that’s what he needs.”

The serious DC pundits think this horrible treatment – I mean, she called him a traitor :omg: – of the head of the Republican Party will taint the whole dinner. Which is accurate, I guess, ‘cuz when I hear “taint,” I think of Limbaugh (ironically, when I think if “Limbaugh,” I think “asshole.” All in the same neighborhood, I guess).

Geez,Wanda, can’t you show Rush the same respect he showed Barack the Magic Negro, Michael J Fox, and prescription drug laws?

A coalition of trade groups is purportedly banding together with the Obama Administration to put lipstick on the US Healthcare pig, hoping to fool us all into to believing that the “for profit” model of healthcare that has brought us personal bankruptcies, denied claims, patient dumping, and huge profits for the medical-pharmaceutical-insurance industrial complex is still the best way to go. They claim they “could” save more than $2 trillion over the next decade. No doubt this means they’ll find more ingenious ways to deny claims and make it more difficult for patients to get the care they need. And of course more dumping of patients into public hospitals facing budget cuts from state and local governments (or just putting them into cabs and dumping them in front of the nearest homeless shelter). Pardon me if I’m not sufficiently enthused.

VP Joe Biden was in town this weekend to give the commencement address at Syracuse University. A great time to be graduating and looking for a job. Joe also visited a local elementary school (the one where his first wife taught while Joe was going to Law School) while he was in town. The kids had written him a letter inviting him, and he was kind enough to stop by.

In more news nobody cares about, it was a good weekend lacrosse-wise here. Both the Onondaga Community College mens and womens teams won their National Junior College Championship games, and all the other local college teams advanced in their tournaments.

I didn’t get to see the Star Trek movie this weekend, but a lot of other people seem to have, as it was #1 at the box office, raking in over two and a half times more than the previous Star Trek best (Star Trek: First Contact).

Matt Lauer is pimping Dick Cheney on the Today Show. I guess that’s my clue to get ready for work.

I know this is an oldie, but what the hell….