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The Internet has been mourning the loss of the viral “Hey Girl, It’s Paul Ryan” Tumblr since the site’s owners decided to close up shop three months ago, but the ladies behind the Paul Ryan meme purveyor resurrected the blog in light of Mitt Romney’s highly-anticipated vice presidential selection. The “Hey Girl, It’s Paul Ryan” women wrote in a Saturday morning post of the news: “HEY GIRL, IT’S YOUR REPUBLICAN VICE PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE. WHAT. The. WHAT. Your gracious Hey Girl, It’s Paul Ryan hosts will be gladly accepting bubbly alcoholic beverages, prior even to 10am, in celebration of the success of our one and only.” As to be expected, the girls included a few new memes: “Hey Girl, It’s Paul Ryan” made headlines at the beginning of the summer but stopped being updated once Ryan himself acknowledged the blog during a radio appearance. When the show host said he had plans to drive lots of traffic to the blog, Ryan laughed and said, “No, no. We’re good. Please don’t do that.” That was...

Twenty-four hours is a lot of time to fill for a news network, especially when you’ve only got one thing to talk about. During their coverage of Mitt Romney ‘s VP selection, CNN contributor and legendary Democratic strategist James Carville filled several of those minutes by leading Wolf Blitzer and his panel in a discussion of Veepstakes winner Paul Ryan ‘s absent necktie at the weighty announcement. “I was a little shocked at the optics that Ryan didn’t wear a coat and tie,” Carville observed. “I don’t know if anyone else thinks it matters, but I was surprised at this.” Wolf Blitzer, amused and intrigued, asked “Why were you surprised, James?” “You know, maybe that’s just me and being from the South, but, you know, you’re announced for vice president of the United States, you’re a young guy and just look sort of casual to me,” Carville replied, and while he thought the event and the speech went well, he “didn’t think that the optics of the thing were that good. I think a lot of ot...