I know, I know. tl;dr. But you are only hurting yourself on this one. You should read it. It's powerful, honest, and funny. Just like Maron. Now, more than ever, I wish I was up in Montreal for the festival. Language is a little NSFW.

Via: thecomicscomic.com

This dude is hardcore.

The candidate’s wife shows remarkable courage and grace in the face of cancer diagnosis.

The Best Links:

1. Elizabeth Edwards Gives Ann Coulter a Good Spanking
2. Elizabeth Edwards’s Cancer “More Likely To Be Controlled By Anti-Estrogen Drugs”
3. Not Nice: Elizabeth Dole Ignores Elizabeth Edwards Illness
4. Viewers rip Katie Couric’s interview with John and Elizabeth Edwards
5. Elizabeth Edwards Bouyed by Supporters
6. John Edwards Almost as Pretty as Wife
7. John and Elizabeth Edwards show the meaning of courage.
8. Is it REALLY possible to run for president with a wife who has cancer?
9. Leave Elizabeth Edwards Alone Already
10. Personal loss helps this blogger relate to the bravery of John and Elizabeth
11. Photo of John And Elizabeth Edwards the day there were married
12. Blogger Jim Buie’s first hand account of meeting Elizabeth Edwards
13. Husband John: “Any time, any place that I need to be with Elizabeth, I will be there, period” (NYT)
14. Saving Graces is a “disarmingly moving” memoir on fighting cancer
15. Right-wing “journalists” speculate that cancer announcement was designed to help the Presidential run
16. “If you’re not able in a focused, thoughtful way to deal with this kind of pressure, you’re not ready to be president.”
17. Elizabeth’s MySpace page
18. Slate says that Elizabeth Edwards is probably not biologically related to her two youngest children
19. A timeline of the important dates in John and Elizabeth’s marriage
20. Wikipedia page on Elizabeth Edwards
21. Washington Post: “chance of surviving five years is well below 50 percent”