You might have been too busy watching the Top Chef season finale (Spoiler Alert: Ilan won; Marcel pouted) to hear that Al Franken is running for office in 2008. That’s right folks, you can vote for Franken next year. As long as you’re in Minnesota.

CNN reports that Franken has announced his candidacy for a seat in Senate representing his home state. The liberal, O’Reilly-beating comedian-turned-radio-host-turned-politician is running against incumbant Sen. Norm Coleman (R), whose first priority while in Congress is to “get things done for Minnesota.”

That’s going to be a tough platform to beat.

All this comes soon after Franken’s former project, Air America Radio, was bought out of bankruptcy by real estate mogul Stephen Green, founder and chairman of SL Green Realty Corp. No worries of Green being in cahoots with Murdoch, though. Says Minnesota’s KARE 11:

Green is the brother of Mark Green, a longtime New York politician who has also appeared frequently as a guest on Air America Radio.

Sigh of relief.

So no Franken on the squack box anymore, but if all goes well, maybe we can hear him on the Senate floor on C-SPAN.

Watch Franken tread on Scarborough Country:

We’re sure you saw that lightboards depicting a middle-finger-waving Mooninite shut down the city of Boston today. Apparently, these lightboards, meant to promote Aqua Teen, were mistaken for bombs or some other implement of terror. How did this mistaken identity come to pass?

“It had a very sinister appearance,” Coakley told reporters. “It had a battery behind it, and wires.”

A battery, and wires. Characteristics of 100% of bombs and 0% of the ubiquitous electronic items we use every moment of every day in every location on the globe.

Boston is furious at Time Warner, and the Mayor said all kinds of silly things which you can read about in this CNN article. But you have to remember, Boston: the only one you have to blame is yourself. For not watching enough Adult Swim.

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Some of our readers, like our writers, are about to enter the world of post-college adulthood. While there is much to look forward to (marriage, divorce, health care, retirement, children, etc.) some of them might fall between the cracks into the boxed grey and beige hell known as the cubicle.

But fear not for the hours of wasting way in front of the fire-walled computer monitor after scalding your tongue on the worst drip coffee the Earth has ever witnessed. Open that drawer with the pens, rubber bands and paper clips and build your own office gun.

Thanks to the kind folks at OfficeGuns (via HandsUpHouston forum), not only can you waste hours way at building these weapons of office supply destruction, like the Super Maul (pictured), but you can also maim and injure your fellow workers.

Don’t forget to check out the Penetration Tests while you shop around.

Archaeologists [you know, that career that all us anthropology students start out thinking we want to pursue until we actually learn about it?] in England have discovered some early settlements by the very builders of the mysterious monument.

Professor Parker Pearson of Sheffield University has theorized that the housing complexes found were actually a massive party zone on account of the numerous animal bones covering the floors [sounds like my basement!!].

“The animal bones are being thrown away half-eaten. It’s what we call a feasting assemblage. This is where they went to party - you could say it was the first free festival.”

So, the people behind Stonehenge were huge partiers!! You know what this means, right guys? That you can have an epic work ethic and build monuments WHILE you party your ass off! YEAH!!

What. The. Fuck. Pardon our French, but we just can’t believe that this is real. In fact, we don’t.

Remember Minister Donnie Davies? Well, he’s been making the blog rounds, it seems. It appears that he made his debut at Gawker, then was picked up by various sites, among them CMJ and the Houston Press. We were linked to the supposed Web site for Davies’ band, Evening Service.

So why do we think Love God’s Way is fake?

1) Evening Service as a band name. Postal Service meets Sunday congregation? We think not.

2) The shoddiness of the God Love’s Way Web site. Yes, we know that we’re no bushel of roses here either, but c’mon. I mean, C.H.O.P.S.?

3) The most damaging evidence, we think. While trying to get a copy of Evening Services’ video for “God Hates Fags” up on the blog, we came across curious source code:

topic=videos_comedy

Comedy? We sure hope so. If not, we’ll be praying under our desks that the Flying Spaghetti Monster forgives Donnie Davies and his cohorts.

EDIT: Could Todd Quillen be Donnie Davies? (via Dan Savage’s blog at The Stranger). Probably not, but everyone wants to think so.

FOX News, the predominant American bastion of conservative truth, plans to debut the unedited footage from ABC’s “The Path to 9/11″ docu-drama. Bravo, FNC. At least you’re openly admitting to showcasing fictionalized accounts of the truth.

ABC aired the film back in Sept. 10/11 and was lambastad for having a bias against the Clinton administration and its position on terrorism. Media Matters says:

 The Path to 9/11 drew sharp criticism from former Clinton administration officials, journalists, and conservatives who noted that significant parts of the “docudrama’s” content were not supported by the 9-11 Commission’s findings, despite the claims of ABC and writer Cyrus Nowrasteh that the film was largely based on the commission’s report.

So who can you count to tell you the real story about inconsequential truths? Read more after the jump.

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