Behold! What we see here is confirmation of a simple development: not only have the MSM’s editorial positions destroyed their grip on the national discourse (see the success of the Tea Party movement that’s violently opposed by the MSM), but the trust the American people have in their news reporting is also in the crapper. Well, maybe. Or it could just be that picking up a Land Cruiser with 0%

Here’s something most people probably wouldn’t guess about Heaven: on Thursday nights, the most exclusive tequila bar on the west side hosts after hours cock fighting — kind of a yuppie slum fest for the bored Hugo Boss set, with hedge fund-types and the idle rich costumed in cheap straw cowboy hats and custom snakeskin blazers cheering on a half-dozen or so angry roosters, the only authentic Mexicans in sight

Pursuant to Darleen’s post, I noted in the comments how I can not remember another President cheapening the office with such alacrity as Obama has. Singling out specific conservative talk show hosts on whom to blame the “extreme” tenor of political discourse in this country? Casting them as opportunists, rather than earnest critics? What happened to dissent being the highest form of patriotism? Makes me wonder: What is more “alarming”?

From Michael Moynihan, “Red America, White Power: Is the Tea Party movement motivated by race hatred?”, Reason: On November 9, 1938, in the Tyrolian city of Innsbruck, Richard Berger, president of the local Jewish community, was snatched from his home and beaten to death with rocks and rifle butts, his body deposited in a nearby river. On the same evening, in an apartment building on Gänsbacherstrasse, Karl Bauer, of whom

Thanks to all who’ve contributed. I’ll be sending out personal notes at the end of the fundraiser proper, which will go through tomorrow evening (and maybe Tuesday morning). Hope you all had a great weekend. Which, I don’t know how that’s even possible, given the obscene proliferation of giant pink blowup bunnies you people have pegged to your lawns. Oh well. Jesus wants what Jesus wants, I guess. And who

Q: Why did the counter-protesting “anarchists” cross the road? A: WE REFUSE YOUR “DEMANDS” FOR A PROPER PUNCHLINE, RIGHTWING PIGS!* My. And yet some people find those who peacefully protest government overreach “alarming.” Priorities, people. (h/t JHo)