Radio Legend Paul Harvey Dies [ABC]

Rick “Man on Dog” Santorum wants you living on the street:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyGtJuYmIRw

Why is this shitbag saying anything?

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Dobson Resigns [Washington Monthly]

Focus on the Family to cut 202 more jobs [Denver Post, 11/17/2008]

Conservatives Pick Soft Target: A Cartoon Sponge [NYT, 1/20/2005]

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Geez, we need some filler here to pretend we’re doing something other than marking time before getting to the link. There’s “beats as it sweeps as it cleans,” of course. Or the line about a resident reporting “suspicious activity at a car wash”. Maybe speculation about what George Jetson does with Rosie the Robot when Jane’s away. (Jane! Stop this crazy thing! Jane! Hellllllp!)

Well, fuck it. Sometimes you just can’t compete with the source.

Mich. man pleads no contest in vacuum sex act case [AP]

Bobby Jindal admits he made up the Katrina story he told during his response to President Obama’s speech.

I thought Catholics weren’t allowed to lie ….

Jindal Admits Katrina Story Was False [TPM]

Conservatives, sociopaths, and other GOP criminals are currently attending CPAC.  NPR tells me that anybody interested in the 2012 Republican preznit nod speaks there as a matter of course.  Yesterday it was Fuckabee . Today it’s Mittens and some other shitbag whose name I forgot. Joe the Plumber is, of course, holding court and spouting the usual shit.

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Before everyone got caught up comparing Bobby Jindal to Kenneth the Page (which leaves Michael Steele or Alan Keyes available to Tracy Morgan), his post-not-SOTU remark about “$140 million for something called ‘volcano monitoring'” was poised to become Wacky Soundbite of the Night.

As a governor whose state fell victim to Bush incompetence natural disaster, his comment was sure to raise eyebrows. (Never mind that Jindal also said his state would be better off without Bush incompetence government assistance in a crisis — we don’t have enough eyebrows for that.)

And since the only volcano in the news lately threatens the home state of Jindal’s rival for 2012 buffoon the next GOP nomination, easy jokes were at hand, if only they hadn’t been drowned out by easier jokes.

But apparently Alaskans aren’t big 30 Rock fans, since they’re not letting the matter drop.

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