Obama makes his own version of the health care bill, America loves Canada, the Canadian women's hockey team loves a good cigar, the Pope loves David Crosby, and we examine some signs of the Europocalypse.

Right-wing pundits cling to their Don't Ask Don't Tell, Palin gets offended by Rahm's delicate choice of phrasing, Obama comes up a dollar short on "high speed" rail, Google becomes the world's most powerful non-state actor, Carly Fiorina likens fiscal conservatives to sheep, and Ray Nagin foretells the outcome of the Super Bowl using advanced numerological analysis.

The Dems lose their supermajority after Martha Coakley forgets to campaign, the conspiracy theorists come up with their Haiti story, campaign finance law gets shaved down by several decades, Joe discovers screwdrivers, and the show discovers brevity.

Obama thinks about targeted sanctions for Iran, the TSA makes more arguments for their own dismantlement, Rahm disses Israel, Mr. 9/11 forgets about 9/11, Michael Steele says "get a life", Blago finally gets his big TV shot, and the GOP laments the subtle political messages of Avatar.

World leaders gather in Copenhagen to decide not to decide anything, Berlusconi gets his face smashed with a statuette and blames Facebook, Lieberman is still a jackass, the Holocaust and pandas are mentioned, and we run through our picks for best/worst stuff of the decade.

Obama unveils plans for The Surge II, the Swiss decide that four minarets are enough, the GOP keeps engineering its own demise, Lou Dobbs banks on the Mexican vote, NoKo loses its life savings in style, Mark Sanford is still an idiot, Tiger Woods provides joke opportunities to all, and we podcast about these things and others.

Alok joins the podcast as Van Rompuy and Lady Ashton seize control of the EU, Qaddafi seeks to convert leggy Italian women to Islam, Somalia pirates battle North Korean arms dealers, Hugo Chavez seeks to control the weather and L. Paul Bremer takes up landscape painting. Dear Leader Ethan Cheng will be back next week, we swear.

Joe takes the helm once again in a futile attempt to steer the show, production values plummet accordingly, Mark the anthropologist joins the podcast, Roni confronts al Qaeda, Japan invades the Korean peninsula and hilarity ensues.

We celebrate a year of podcasting, ponder how the show and its subject matter have changed since October 2008, tell a lot of people to eat sh*t, overcome profound connection problems through the magic of editing, and almost break out into song.

Obama inexplicably parries the Nobel Peace Prize, Bristol Palin's baby daddy bulks up for the nudie mags, woe is Silvio Berlusconi, Ethan explains why it's okay for him to rag on Jews, and Roni is revealed to be a cyborg.

Our pal Rod has an eventful week of embarrassments, Hugo Chavez asks Obama to join the Axis Of Evil, Qaddafi gives his translator a nervous breakdown, Iran keeps marching down the nuke trail, an AP photo ruffles some feathers 8 years too late, one of the worst people in the world tries to take Chris Dodd's senate seat, and we explain the week off.

North Korea reconsiders its nice-guy act, Obama makes plans to indoctrinate children into his proletariat militia, the new Japanese First Lady reminisces about hanging out with Tom Cruise on the rolling green hills of Venus, the world's goofiest-looking leader decides that Switzerland should no longer exist, and Ethan tells horrible jokes.

Obama wages a two-front war on health care reform, the Koreas get warm and fuzzy with each other, Americans start to get confused by the whole Afghanistan thing, Israel steals precious kidneys, Mike Huckabee endorses ethnic cleansing, and Blago is revealed to not even be good enough for the real Fabio.

Bill Clinton penetrates enemy lines and busts the hostages out of North Korea, Senator Mel Martinez quits his job and runs off with Sarah Palin, the AP manages to use the phrase "K-G-Beefcake" in a headline, Joe checks in with us from southern Italy, DWATG gets a new contributor, and you get to listen to it all in horrible sound quality.

Hillary Clinton and the KCNA face off in a schoolyard battle of wits, Henry Louis Gates breaks into someone's house in Cambridge and hangs up pictures of his family everywhere, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad makes a concerted effort to lose even more support from Iranians, Joe Biden likes what he sees in Ukraine, Silvio Berlusconi hides a massive archaeological find from the world in order to impress chicks, and Mark Sanford announces his 2009 vacation roadmap.

Roni tours the Balkans in search of sociopolitical revelation, an ethnic street war breaks out in the northwestern Chinese city of Urumqi, and North Korea sends an army of unstoppable website-destroying cyborg supersoldiers into Seoul and Washington D.C.

Governor Mark Sanford disappears from his job on Father's Day to go cheat on his wife in Argentina on the state's dime, the first phase of post-election unrest in Iran seems to come to an end, Sarkozy tells women to take off their clothes, the least-deserving African head of state gets peed on, New York pulls ahead in the fight for crappiest state government, and a bunch of celebrities try to overshadow it all.

Dr. A “wins” the big Iranian election, Netenyahu makes a plea for peace* with Palestine, the UN lays down another wristslap of vengeance on North Korea, state senators in Albany give Illinois and California a run for their money in the 2009 state government suckathon, and hot reek is discussed.

North Korea disturbs our podcast schedule with a nuclear weapon, Dick Cheney emerges from his secret cocoon as a butterfly of TV fearmongering, Roland Burris's Blago-taint grows fouler, right-wing pundits grill the new Supreme Court pick over the pronunciation of her own name, and more.

Ethan gets in a car accident, the pig flu craze finally starts to fizzle out, New York City stops hiring teachers, Jacob Zuma gets to bring all three wives to the party, eighteen-year-old girls call the Italian PM “daddy”, Putin teases the world, and chainsaw-related crimes are discussed.

The President of South Africa deals with some unusual girl trouble, Blago gets sent to his room to think about what he's done, the news media craps itself over Obama's 100th day, passive verbs are used by North Korea, and the world prepares to die by the hands of Mexican pigs.

We celebrate Passover by passing over our usual subject matter to go off-topic for over half the show. This is what happens when world leaders don't do anything interesting for a week. Also, Vermont continues the gay marriage train, Japan and Korea argue over the cardinal directions, and we discover the hidden link between Steve Jobs and Kim Jong-il.

We cover Tim Geithner vs. Paul Krugman on the economy, Obama's upcoming Afghanistan ramp-up, public transit fare hikes, the latest on Israel's disastrous PR, and more in what would have been our first Monday morning release if I had more Drupal administration skills.

An episode of education policy, African dictators who look like mole rats, ill-conceived drug awareness tactics, silly names, and relative brevity.

The original Episode 1 duo talks a lot of smack about Bobby Jindal as they take on Tuesday's big Obama address, the future of Gitmo, Arnold Schwarzenegger's retirement options, Joe Biden's giant telephone, the simmering trouble in Pakistan, and the GOP's 2012 minority star search.

Ethan returns to the fold to talk with Joe and Alec about his Southeast Asian travels, the hollow promise of moderate leadership in the Middle East, North Korea's nuclear warhead foibles, baseball players on the juice, and the wonders of the human digestive system.

Joe and Roni go head-to-head to take on ten days of Blagojevich that shook the world, Obama's first week in office, manically depressed poodles, armyworms from hell, and how Oprah Winfrey controls the universe.

The Senate bends over for Roland Burris, Obama's inauguration balances out its anti-gay with some gay, sensitive Putin lets the people freeze, and we chat about what interesting things you'll find on the DWATG podcast feed over the next three weeks.

A show about Rick Warren at the Inauguration, the possible Palinosity of Caroline Kennedy, the decriminalization of sodee pop, the legal system failure of the music industry, the looming potential for an Argentinian honey sandwich, and the Christmas spirit. Or maybe the Hanukkah spirit, if you're keeping track.

This week we laugh at Rod Blagojevich, discuss the UN's dealings with genocides, contemplate the link between partisanship and prayer, briefly cover the automaker bailout-lite, and laugh at Rod Blagojevich some more. Alternate title: Doucheblag And The Golden Senate Seat.

Obama's economic team, gay rights progress, awkward silences, Cuban espresso, and poultry abominations. Happy Thanksgiving! (...if you're into that kind of thing.)

To cap off this slow news week, we discuss Robert Gates, Rahm Emanuel, Joe Lieberman, Sarah Palin, Ted Stevens, and various cats and dogs.

We fail. Explanation within. Catch us early next week for another glorious program of rambling political discussion, and enjoy this music in the meantime.

Joe the Plumber's career opportunities, insanely high voting turnouts, McCain's white guilt relief tactics, and the most detailed and historically framed discussion on the Syria situation that you will hear today.

Iraq occupation confusion, McCain's defiance of electoral reality, Proposition 8, blasphemous video games, and a general drop in quality since episode one. Maybe this is harder than we thought.