Denver Post [via PourMeCoffee]

The archive of psychiatrist Fredric Wertham — who famously crusaded against comic books in the 1950s — is now open at the Library of Congress:

Despite his humane interests and broader concerns with violence and protecting children from psychological harm, Wertham is best known for his book “Seduction of the Innocent” (1954) and its resulting fallout. The book was the culmination of a decade-long campaign against comic books…

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“I don’t want my guys to be party poopers, but we have a job to do… They’re not bad people, but they like to use drugs.” –Mark Pirtle, BLM special agent, explaining the police presence at Burning Man. [AP/Raw Story]

Drudge Jr.’s Big Journalism, Paragraph 1:

In an era when satellite imagery allows one to count cars from space, and in a country fascinated with numbers (weekly box office take, home runs, calorie counting, etc) the MSM is having a difficult time with the math on Glenn Beck’s Restoring Honor rally held on the Mall in Washington yesterday. By all reasonable estimates, nearly half a million people were in attendance, and yet, confusion (or perhaps subterfuge) rules the day.

Paragraph 5:

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qs9etDCc0Fk

Salon reports that “a Beck-narrated video displayed on the massive screens attempted to co-opt King’s story, calling attention to the supposed similarities between King’s struggle and Beck’s own vision for the future.” We don’t know whether this is the video in question, but it fits the description.

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Oddly enough, he looks like Reagan.  This is what Glenn Beck hath wrought:

And please – if any of you hears of a white cracker baby that’s been killed by a black guy, let me know. I’ll put up a post right away.

At The Hill, Brent Budowsky has a good piece up on what will happen if the Republican/Teabagger party takes over the House:

The Republican plan is to abuse the power of multiple Congressional committees, abuse the power and the process of subpoena, by hiring a fleet of partisan Republican lawyers and partisan Republican staff at taxpayer expense to pursue a politics of vendetta and persecution.

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