Nothing says, "I'm more of a badass than Ann Coulter" like a leather vest and chola makeup.

“If you take your kids to see Watchmen, you’re a moron.

If you see it yourself, you’re also probably a moron and a vapid, indecent human being.”

That’s how Debbie Schlussel, D-list Ann Coulter wannabe, begins her thoughtful, measured review of this year’s biggest box office hit. She’s a real charmer, our Debbie.

Now, I agree with the first statement – and apparently, so does the Motion Picture Association of America, which gave the film an R rating. But does the second statement not, by default, name her as a vapid, indecent human being? Oh, right, she was just performing a service for dull-minded parents who do whatever their kids tell them to do.

If you’re wondering why her name sounds familiar, you might know her as the author of a twice-weekly column entitled, “Debbie Does Politics.” She is a role model for the children, really.  And drag queens.

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Title: Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto

Author: Mark R. Levin

Rank: 50

Blurb: “In the face of the modern liberal assault on Constitution-based values, an attack that has steadily snowballed since President Roosevelt’s New Deal of the 1930s and resulted in a federal government that is a massive, unaccountable conglomerate, the time for re-enforcing the intellectual and practical case for conservatism is now.”

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After Blogenfreude reminded us of our Favorite Forgotten Science Films, we’ve been watching others in the series, the rest of which unfortunately do not feature Eddie Albert (nor Eva or Arnold, for that matter).

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Rather than get caught up in a belabored analogy casting Rush in a toga surrounded by chickenshit assassins, perhaps we should explain instead that every month we provide an opportunity for readers to embarrass themselves by emailing photos, which, after a momentary pause for the NSA to analyze them, automatically show up here. But if you’re wondering, the part of Brutus remains open.

The Ides of Jam [Flickr]

Times are tough all over in the travel industry. Which is why the White Cockatoo, an awesomely named resort in suspiciously named Queensland, Australia, divides its calendar among months for families, months for nudists — even a month for pestorking nudists.

And which, in turn, leads to this travel advisory: Do not confuse the months.

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Will he ever just go the fuck away?

Toledo-area plumber and 2008 presidential campaign fixture Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher filed a federal lawsuit Thursday that charges former Ohio government officials with violating his constitutional privacy rights by searching confidential government databases for information about him.

Does it surprise you that the professional Clinton-haters at Judicial Watch filed the suit for him?

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Some 12.5 million Americans are enjoying the fruits of the Bush II Administration’s wanton looting of their country, staggering into a black dawn of countless years, possibly generations, of total economic catastrophe and, doubtless, cannibal anarchy, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported this week.

Bush- and Cheney-aligned organized crime enterprises are no doubt developing strategies to cash in on the ensuing calamities, providing support services to US military deployed to put down pandemic urban insurrection, riot and civil war, as vast swaths of American society become unmoored, barbarized by starvation, disease and the despair of hopeless existence amidst smoldering, blood-soaked ruins and rotting carrion.

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