• Well, that was unexpected. While criticizing the “Rally To Restore Sanity,” Keith Olbermann actually bent to it a little bit. He’s taking a break from the most well-known segment of “Countdown,” the “Worst Person in the World” segment, which (hilariously enough) was created in an attempt to defend Tucker “mining Journolist for traffic” Carlson. Is this temporary? Is it a pre-election stunt? Does it matter? Who cares! It’s Keith, admitting Jon Stewart’s rally got to him while at the same time saying it didn’t really get to him. source

• NO “don’t ask” won’t go away while Obama defends it source

• OK, OK, we know it’s early … But it’s almost that time again. With radio stations across the country beginning to change their formats to Christmas music, we want to suggest a Christmas present for the ShortFormBlog staff (OK, mostly Julius). A robotic Gibson Firebird guitar. This bad boy will only set you back an easy-to-pay-back-in-installments $5,570. And it’s made with the kind of forward-thinking technologies that we’ll put to good use by playing Oasis tunes off of “Be Here Now.” “Don’t go a-way, say what you’ll say, say that you’ll stay, forever and a day …” source

• This is the torrent of rage that builds up when you piss sarah Palin off: “I suppose I could play their immature, unprofessional, waste-of-time game, too, by claiming these reporters and politicos are homophobe, child molesting, tax evading, anti-dentite, puppy-kicking, chain smoking porn producers…really, they are… I’ve seen it myself…but I’ll only give you the information off-the-record, on deep, deep background; attribute these ‘facts’ to an ‘anonymous source’ and I’ll give you more.” Yikes. We’re scared. *cower* source

• delight After weeks of heavy suggestion from the Internet, specifically Reddit, Comedy Central goes forward with “The Rally To Restore Sanity.” Everyone’s estatic.
• dissing One of the co-founders of Reddit asks Stewart at a press conference how the Internet helped influence them to do the rally. His response? “It didn’t hurt.” Ouch.
• drama Drew Curtis of Fark loudly rips Comedy Central for giving the Internet too little credit for sparking the idea. It’s the angriest we’ve ever seen Drew. source

• » The lesson to take here: DO NOT PISS OFF THE INTERNET. EVEN IF YOU’RE JON FREAKING STEWART. THEY WILL TURN ON YOU.

• $500 or more could be yours if you fix Google’s bugs source

• There’s no reason why Arizona should stand by and suffer the consequences of a broken system, when (it) has 15,000 well-trained peace officers that Washington authorities aren’t allowing to help fix the system. That’s what Arizona wants to do.
• John Bouma, the lawyer representing Arizona • Arguing in favor of the state’s immigration law during an appeals court trial in California. The judges in the case asked both sides difficult questions and didn’t seem to be favoring either one. Meanwhile, there were a ton of protesters outside holding the kind of signs that weren’t all that commonplace at the Rally To Restore Sanity. Ah, divisions. source

My Girl’s a Republican from jeff on Vimeo.

• It’s the day before the election, and what better way to celebrate than a really catchy hip-hop song about Republican girlfriends? Oh, and you should vote. (via Foster Kamer) source