Ben Quayle is the son of former Vice President Dan Quayle and he is running for Congress in Arizona. He has garnered attention recently for a campaign ad declaring Barack Obama “the worst president in history,” but this is so much more awesome–

TheDirty.com (formerly DirtyScottsdale.com) has alleged that Quayle not only helped found the “gossip and satire” site– which abounds with scandalous photos and tongue-in-cheek tales of sexual conquest– but that he also contributed a column.

Quayle allegedly wrote the column under the pseudonym Brock Landers, a reference to a character in “Boogie Nights”–

Well, not really a character in “Boogie Nights.” You see, Mark Wahlberg plays a guy named Eddie Adams who adopts the stage name Dirk Diggler and then stars in a series of low-budget action-porn flicks as Brock Landers. (Wahlberg’s co-star John C. Reilly plays Reed Rothchild, who portrays Brock Landers’s sidekick Chest Rockwell.)

The possibility of Quayle’s involvement with TheDirty.com could very well make him unelectable, but the whole lecherous satirical conceit also makes him very interesting.

UPDATE: I guess I’m a little late to this story. Ben Quayle is denying that he wrote the column.

Yes, it is real. Nobody at Warner Bros. had time to parse five words for an unspeakable double meaning? Boo-Boo deserves better… or at least a running start.

Moments ago at Drudge Report–

See the original here.

Some Spam deserves to be celebrated for its sheer cynical ridiculousness:

I don’t have anything to contribute to the discussion that hasn’t already been written more eloquently by John Podhoretz, Jim Treacher or Charlie Anders (among others). But I do have this–

DOUBLE SPOILER ALERT

Something about Jack Shephard’s son David has really been bugging me. Last night during the finale I figured out why– he looks like one of the spooky teen Hitler clones from the Nazihunting thriller “The Boys From Brazil.”

Thank God he’s only a figment of Jack’s imagination in the terribly disappointing Unitarian limbo world that was revealed to us last night.

UPDATE (5/26): Doctor Zero feels betrayed.

You have probably noticed little Facebook “Like” buttons appearing on more and more web sites recently. With the addition of this feature, Facebook is obviously trying to compete with Digg, the popular “social bookmarking”/”social news” site launched in 2004.

Facebook has a considerably larger community than Digg so the “Like” function may very well eclipse the near-ubiquitous Digg button.

But here’s the problem. While Digg can be read as an approving “dig”– e.g. “I dig it, daddy-o”– it is more ambiguous than that. People have come to understand, I think, that Digging does not imply they support the actual news or opinion contained in the Dugg article. Rather, it indicates they they find it newsworthy or curious.

Meanwhile, Facebook’s answer to Digg is the unambiguous “Like.” Look no further than this article from TMZ today to understand how that could go wrong…

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At the intersection of nerdy gaming fandom and existential poignancy comes this story, via Gossip Gamers:

Microsoft had finally pull the plug on ‘Halo 2′ on Xbox Live and gamers had to say their goodbyes on April 15th. However, a bunch of gamers found a loophole through this by not turning off their Xbox and disconnecting from their games, which means until they either drop from the game or be forced off the server.
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As of now the numbers of players are at fourteen because most of the gamers in the small group are having problems staying in the game. I say using your Xbox 360 and staying on Xbox Live for 12 days is a feat itself, but hey they doing this not for glory or recognition, but for the love of the game.