Written by: Beck

How do you know when your political party has sunk irretrievably deep into corruption and scandals? When you're compared unfavorably to New Jersey.

At long last, the age-old question has been answered: Which makes you dumber, email or marijuana? The winner? Email! That's right, folks, people who spend all day compulsively attached to their Blackberrys are doing more damage to their cognitive skills than smoking a doob.

And, naturally, oil-for-food continues to get worse and worse. Now, several members of the Volcker commission have resigned in protest over what they consider to be a whitewash. What's more, it turns out that Paul Volcker himself sits on the board of a company that appears to have been on the receiving end of some of Saddam's largesse. Read about it in great detail here, and here, and especially here.