The New York Times this morning reports on the rise of an ultra-nationalistic, ultra-xenophobic, far-right movement in Japan:

The demonstrators appeared one day in December, just as children at an elementary school for ethnic Koreans were cleaning up for lunch. The group of about a dozen Japanese men gathered in front of the school gate, using bullhorns to call the students cockroaches and Korean spies. Read more »

Title: “Crimes Against Liberty: An Indictment of President Barack Obama”

Author: David Limbaugh

Rank: 2

Blurb: “American voters might have been naïve when they went to the polls in 2008, but New York Times bestselling author David Limbaugh wasn’t.”

Review: “Obama cockily brought a gun to a knife fight only to realize too late that Rush’s Little brother was standing behind him with a baseball bat of truth that leaves him and his administration lying blooded, bruised, and battered on the floor.”

Customers Also Bought: “Why Coolidge Matters: How Civility in Politics Can Bring a Nation Together,” by the National Notary Association.

Footnote: Rush’s Little Brother also wields the Catcher’s Mitt of Wisdom, the Strike Zone of Righteousness, and the Infield Fly Rule of Justice.

Crimes Against Liberty [Amazon]

Buy or Die [Stinque@Amazon kickback link]

Not that I whore things a lot (sounds of disbelief followed by naysaying …) but I need everyone’s help. My buddy Otis Harper needs every vote he can get to win his own sports talk show.  Go to www.wfan.com and scroll down about halfway – the voting column is on the right.  Vote Otis, vote often – I think you can go there tomorrow, and even Monday morning.  Please – this guy deserves this.

I’m off tonight, so commenter mellbell is taking charge:

I certainly can’t compete with our resident chefs blogenfreude and promnight when it comes to savories [eds. - oh please], but give me some flour, butter, sugar, and eggs, and I’ll whip up something sweet. And when The Most Exciting Two Minutes in Sports rolls around (or even when it’s, say, eight months away), that something sweet is Derby Pie.

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Seeing as I have never, in my life, watched Glenn Beck do ANYTHING (except of course in little snippets on the Daily Show and such), I guess I might be a totally neutral, unbiased observer of today’s doings. Just like Albert Pujols and Tony LaRussa of the St. Louis Cardinals, who are going to observe themselves before tonight’s game against the Nats. The announcement of their appearance yesterday caused quite the stir over that Yahoo’s horsehide blog, Big League Stew, as evidenced by this sage comment:

This is non-political in the same way that MLK’s speech was non-political. All Americans with strong morals will find nothing to disagree with. The only people who will be upset are the America-haters and non-Americans. Beck is a modern day Martin Luther King. In the future, we will remember Beck as the great patriot who stood for American values in the face of tyranny. LaRussa and Pujols will go down as brave warriors who withstood the persecution of the liberal media to stand on the side of liberty.

Boy.  This will be ten different kinds of stupid.  Play-by-play, post-jump. Read more »

“Something miraculous is going to happen on Saturday.” —Glenn Beck

• Rain.
• Lincoln rises from his pedestal, kicks ass, takes names.
• Freak cosmic vortex swaps in crowd from 1963.

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I worked at a DC soup kitchen during law school – gotta love this guy.