Oklahoma not OK in the Head

Apparently, Oklahoma has nothing better to do with over $250,000 dollars per year other than creating a database containing information on mothers who have performed abortions in that state.

Comedian v. Conservative Justices

Stephen Colbert on Clarence Thomas, Antonin Scalia, and Samuel Alito and his... cable TV package...?!

Some Animals Are More Equal than Others

Now I see why Orwell had the animal farm be run by pigs. They're smarter than our own babies.

California in the News

An article was brought to my attention a while ago (thank you, Aaron). It discusses California's rise and imminent capitulation and it is worthy of sharing, so here it is, from The Guardian.

Don't Be Gay. Don't Smoke.

From the Onion News Network, the newest anti-smoking campaign from the CDC.

Twitteleh for your Mommeleh

Not quite PC, but still... post-worthy.

(Source: Huffington Post)

Those Silly Fundamentalists...

... Christians, this time.

They're praying for liberals in Congress and in the Obama administration. Even Republicans like Olympia Snowe are not safe. Audio below.

Vuelvo al sur como se vuelve siempre al amor

Crocodile Tears

Behold, the master of crocodile tears, Glenn Beck:

(Source: The Daily Dish)

Things Come Together

Chinua Achebe, author of Things Fall Apart, is publishing a book once again, after a hiatus of over twenty years.

I look forward to reading it.

Going Rogue and Palling Around

Despite what her annoyingly frequent and constantly fallacious Facebook posts might suggest (puh-lease! other people write those), Sarah Palin could not put together a coherent, cohesive piece of writing if her life depended on it. Winks and smiles do not translate so well in print. So, how, might you ask, did she write her upcoming book in the space of just a few months? She didn't, of course. Other people did.

And here is a short description of their œuvre.

Stambolli digjet, k**** krihet

The title above is an expression in Albanian that would encapsulate Congress's latest shameful act very well. Loosely translated, it says, 'Istanbul burns and the whore finds time to comb her hair.'

The whore in this case is Congress itself, who, in the midst of this financial crisis, finds the time to increase the budget for its own expenditures.

For shame!