Kansas State Representative Mike O’Neal celebrates the Christmas season, it would appear, by forwarding “jokey” emails to his colleagues. MISTAKE #1! The email, which included the subject line “Twins separated at birth?” contained a picture of Michelle Obama, her hair made messy by the wind, next to an image of the Grinch. “I’m sure you’ll [...]

Unfazed by “Neither rain, nor snow, nor sleet, nor hail,” it looks like all those emails we’ve been sending are starting to drag on the United States Postal Service. According to this New York Times report, the USPS is quickly approaching insolvency, and unless the House and Senate take drastic measures to help them out, will be forced to shutdown come winter. “Our situation is extremely serious,” the postmaster general, Patrick R. Donahoe, told the Times. “If Congress doesn’t act, we will default.”

Recently, Fox News and other news outlets dedicated a good chunk of air time to an article in Politico that asked “Is Rick Perry Dumb?” The media attention was enough to catch the eyes of Mitt Romney‘s campaign people, who circulated an internal email highlighting Perry’s reaction to questions about his intelligence and comparing the Texas Governor to former President Ronald Reagan, whose own intelligence was called into question during his political career. That email, rather unsurprisingly, eventually found its way to the inboxes of Perry’s own campaign people.

Mark Miner, Perry’s spokesman, told ABC News that the email is, in fact, quite positive.

It’s time for the mid-week cleaning of the old Mediaite mailbox, and as per the proverbial norm, the inbox is stuffed with emails from folks who seem to have a somewhat confused concept of what Mediaite is all about. Like what? Well, we do a lot of things, but we don’t do root canals. Just simply not a service we offer. We don’t have the training, the equipment, or, frankly, the desire to fill the office with the sounds of your screaming. And yet, here comes a message from a chap named Jake who writes:

A Taliban spokesperson insists text messages and emails sent to reporters regarding the death of Mullah Mohammed Omar — the group’s “spiritual leader” — were the result of a hack sent by a “cunning enemy.” Not only does the group claims its main spokesperson Zabiullah Mujahid‘s phone and email accounts were hacked, but the group’s website was evidently tampered with as well.

An emailed statement from Qari Yousef Ahmadi, yet another spokesperson for the group, insists that the Islamic Emirate’s Information and Cultural Commission is looking into the hack.

Just in case you hadn’t gotten enough Sarah Palin in the past few weeks, MSNBC, Mother Jones and ProPublica are set to release upwards of 24,000 pages of emails from Palin’s days as governor of Alaska. This all began in 2008 when Mother Jones‘ David Corn filed a request to have Palin’s gubernatorial emails made [...]

Today, Google plans to start changing the internet — again. The mysterious project, which launched in beta mode early this morning, was announced via YouTube in May and got “the entire web buzzing,” according to tech blog Mashable, and yet many remain in the dark about this particular “game-changer.” Here’s the skinny:

Steve Gutowski, reporter for Newsbusters and proprietor of the website TheCollegePolitico.com, got some good news in his email yesterday: He’d earned a White House press credential! The strange part is, Gutowski says he not only never requested credentials to the event, he’s never even emailed the White House before.

Last Thursday, you may recall, Fox News’ Major Garrett got into it with Press Secretary Robert Gibbs over Garrett’s questioning of White House email procedures. He asked Gibbs a question that there was only one way to answer, then attacked him for trying to answer it. On the air later, Garrett admitted there was a problem with his question. Is the White House overreacting to an overreaction?