Left-wing Nation columnist Eric Alter scans his daughter’s eighth grade reading list and suddenly finds himself a paranoid right-wing nutjob who hates science, hates brown people, and is terrified even to encounter the views of the Other. Albeit one who probably takes great care to limit his carbon footprint. (h/t Baseball Crank)

Occupy Atlanta Wall Street call and response: “You can have sex with animals or whatever.” No, really. Clearly, this is bad news for those giant alien snails attacking Miami who had hoped to make their way north. Not to mention for the “whatevers” — which, once they figures out what they, had better start carrying weapons, or at the very least learn to effectively clench their ass cheeks. **** update:

DCCC sends out a petition asking people to support Occupy Wall Street. The People’s Organized Occupying Revolutionaries? They are now, per the Democrat Party, the “middle class.” I’ve said it before but let me repeat it here: you can’t spell “useful idiots” without “idiots.” Seems to me the Dems know their base.

As Coptic Christians are slaughtered in Egypt, the White House calls for restraint. From both sides. — Though as a practical matter, I don’t think he has much to worry about from the slaughtered Christians. So that’s gotta be a relief.

Unfortunately for Obama, not everyone spends the weekends golfing. Nor are they incapable of multitasking. (h/t Weasel Zippers)

Jonah Goldberg: Where’s the proof that Obama is a master of public policy? To be sure there’s ample proof that he’s a master at talking about public policy, describing the problems, summarizing the current thinking, regurgitating all of the reigning clichés and platitudes. But where’s the evidence that he’s actually good at public policy? It’s a sincere question: What have been the truly innovative, groundbreaking or even unconventional big public

…suggests that perhaps the People’s Organized Occupying Revolutionaries aren’t all that organized. Nor representative of the people. Of course, keep in mind that to believe this, you have to believe the anecdotal evidence of a single corporate mouthpiece who has spent his life worshiping the free market system, having early on pickled himself in the brackish waters of reactionary right wing politics. So there’s that.

Which is hardly surprising. And I don’t mean from an ideological perspective, either — though naturally there’s no surprise there, either. No, I mean it’s unsurprising from a numbers perspective. After all, these people make up 99% of us. Doesn’t leave a whole lot of room for dissenters — which at this point are down to far-right fringe extremist conservatives with no soul, and a bunch of Jew bankers. That’s

And here I thought for sure Ted Rall was dead. I mean, “Whitney” has her own show. You’d think that alone would’ve been enough to convince Rall to self immolate. Seriously. Jobs dies, and this douche is still finding ways to get air time? Can’t say that bodes well for those of you who believe in a benevolent God. At any rate, having Rall pop up got me all nostalgic.

…Obama plays golf for the 83rd time during his presidency. — Which, I guess we can be thankful he’s hasn’t taken up the fiddle. Such obvious imagery wouldn’t play well to the post-ironic, anti-capitalist, big government “anarchists” actively demanding a centralized tyranny of bureaucrats and a permanent political class who promise to control every aspect of their lives. As one of the organizers of Occupy Wall Street told Sean Hannity,