Joe The Plumber Steps In To Support Teabagger Pro-Puppy Mill Lobbying.

Yeah, you heard that right. Human cartoon character well-past his 15 minutes Joe The Plumber is the new "celebrity" face of a Missouri Tea Bagger pro-puppy mill lobbying movement. The movement seeks to strike down a bill which will attempt to eliminate the 3,000 brutal puppy mills in the state.

It's like the dude is just seeking to align himself with the most repellent movements he can put his name on. Hey, I've got a wardrobe suggestion for Joe The Plumber-



Or, you know, you could just go back to your farm and resume whittling. Just go the fuck away.

Glenn Beck: Stewart And Colbert Have "Shown Their Colors"...

Machete Race War - Glenn Beck Was Developed To Counter Alex Jones

Aw, shuggidty duggity.

On Alex Jones' show Sunday, he elaborates how he was offered Glenn Beck's job and quotes from "The Overton Window". Man, do I ever hope this turns into a thing. I'd love to see this feud escalate.

Oh, and something about a race war.

The Democrats Must Be Taken Out Of Power Because... Wharblgarbl... Child Molesters.

Seriously, let me know if you can make a lick of sense out of what's going on in this Free Republic thread.

Glenn Beck Launches News Site.

Glenn Beck just launched his own news website, entitled The Blaze, which went live yesterday.

Also, apparently Beckerheads practice "Leave No Trace". Wouldn't have imagined the overlap in philosophy.

Tim Heidecker "Live" At The Glenn Beck "Restoring Honor" Rally.

Tim Heidecker (of Tom Goes To The Mayor and Awesome Show) has been tweeting the events he sees live from the Glenn Beck rally, and it truly appears to be as historic and iconic an event as Beck claimed it would be.

Glenn Beck, Drawn By John Kricfalusi

You can find more of his recent caricatures here at his blog, including a truly inspired Simon Cowell and a quite creepy Palin.

Ann Coulter Used To Be Pretty Cute, In A Dorky Way.

I've seen this pic thrown around on the internet a bit, with various commentary. One thing nobody has pointed out is how absolutely adorable she is. I mean, those cheeks, that turtleneck, that cute little bob haircut, she's in the fencing club for godsakes...

I think I'm totally developing a crush on Ann Coulter, circa 1980 or so. I would totally have invited her out so we could sit across from each other in beanbag chairs, eating french fries and listening to Voices by Hall And Oates with a pair of giant headphones apiece. Her kiss would have been on my list, if you know what I mean.

Well, if I hadn't been like 3 years old when this pic was taken, that is.

19th Amendment, Was It The Beginning Of The End For America?

From the brain-geniouses at Free Republic.

"It is sad but true that women are natural liberals. It seems that they have to assure that they have the government and/or a man to look after their needs. It is a bunch of hooey that women wanted equal rights. They wanted extra rights."

There’s a reason why the Dems are called “the mommy party” and the Republicans “the daddy party.”

Dear FOX News, Mr. Rogers Wasn't Evil...

FOX News, I hope you choke on a bag of dicks in hell. In some misguided quest to promote some cynically awful worldview and make a stodgy, feeble jab at the inherent "entitlement issues" that have been a facet of youth culture as long as there has ever even been such a thing as youth culture, you're gonna ignorantly drag through the mud the name of a performer that devoted the entirety of his decades-long career to making the world a better place.

I wound up devoting a few afternoon's research into Fred Rogers for my file sharing article on Cracked, and found a wealth of examples of his selflessness and devotion to making the world of entertainment and the larger world around it a better place.

You even make a jab about him being dead. You totally did. Stay classy; you awful, venom-drooling reptilian creatures.

It's hardly the first or last time I'll say this, but fuck you.

Love, ralF23.

Mental Floss' 15 Reasons Mr. Rogers Was The Best Neighbor Ever.
A lovely interview with Mr. Roger's Neighborhood's Betty Aberlain.

IT'S NOT ON GROUND ZERO AND IT'S NOT JUST A MOSQUE. PLEASE TO SHUT THE FUCK UP.

Thanks to Balloon Juice for this awesomely succinct image.

Here's a a post from 30 Mosques in 30 days which takes you inside and lets you see how benign and boring the place really is. Like any church, no matter what the silly name and no matter how big a hyperbole vomiting dickweed people want to be about it.

I Can't Possibly Be The First One To Think Of This - Volume 1

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Creepy Facebook Ad Is Creepy.

I was kind of a late starter to the whole Facebook thing, and now that I'm on there and found most everybody I know, people are fleeing in droves. Many of the reasons they've given were perfectly reasonable, privacy issues and such, but one has just never seemed to match up with reality for me.

If Facebook has spent the year or so I've been on it gathering some sort of database on my interests to customise the ads that show up, something has been going horribly, horribly wrong. Why else would I be getting this ad for what I can only assume is a referee job for some Italian sport that has recently come into fashion:



And when the ads aren't completely baffling, they advocate a position so far removed from my personal beliefs that it's staggering:



Seriously, it's like I've got a personal Tea Party protest marching up and down the right margin of my Facebook front page.

I mean, Facebook can offer adspace to anyone they want. I'm not arguing that. But if the ads that show up on my front page are generated based on the interests they have logged for me, I can only infer they're deliberately chosen to upset me and piss me off. That just seems, well, counterproductive.

I'll be 33 next month; a postage-stamp sized ad in the corner of a social networking site is hardly going to inspire me to reverse my political stance. Have they just given up on ever getting click-through revenue from me and want to be bitchy about it now?

Then a week ago I get the ad that nearly makes me delete my Facebook profile right then and there:



Then I shake off my knee-jerk indignant response that I was already a teenager by the time Paxil was invented, much less possibly prescribed to anyone in my family, but frankly I resent what you are implying there Facebook. I shake off the idea that Facebook could somehow have access to my medical records or even my Myspace blog (where I've mentioned my experience with Paxil), because that is the kind of thoughts a crazy person has.

Frankly, even as a randomly generated ad, it's creepy enough.

Then it hits me. Paxil was invented in 1992. That would make the kids of some of the first prescribed patients 18 now. A bunch of 18 year olds with emotions running rampant. Probably away from family for the first time in college and confused about life. And there, in the corner of their social networking site, is an ad suggesting that all that confusion could be blamed squarely on a parent.

Damn, Facebook. You shady.