https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4S2bG9Kobk

The highlight of Senator-elect Happy Trail’s neverending victory speech last night had to be the moment when he offered his daughters for pestorking to the highest bidder — they’re “available,” lads!

How cringeworthy was Scott Brown’s announcement? Even Glenn Beck ran with it:

“I want a chastity belt on this man. I want his every move watched in Washington. I don’t trust this guy… This one could end with a dead intern.”

Y’know, when Beck isn’t being an award-winning raving lunatic, he ain’t bad. Too bad that only happens once a year.

Glenn Beck Destroys Scott Brown: “This One Could End With A Dead Intern” [Mediaite]

And Sarah Palin can play point guard:

A new professional basketball league boasting rosters made up exclusively of white Americans has its eyes set on Augusta, but the team isn’t receiving a warm welcome.

The All-American Basketball Alliance announced in a news release Sunday evening that it intends to start its inaugural season in June and hopes Augusta will be one of 12 cities with a team.

“Only players that are natural born United States citizens with both parents of Caucasian race are eligible to play in the league,” the statement said.

Racism? Of course not, says AABA Commissioner Don “Moose” “No, we’re not making this up” Lewis:

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There is no intrinsic meaning to Tuesday’s election. The better campaign won: from what we can tell at a distance, one candidate was hungry, the other expected to be served dessert.

There’s certainly no meaning to the tally itself: of some two million votes cast, a hundred thousand divided winner from loser. The country has been narrowly split for a long time; if there’s any trend to identify, that’s it.

Teddy’s seat won a by Republican? Senator-elect Happy Trail was introduced by former Governor Mittens. Republicans are no stranger to statewide office in Massachusetts.

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Oh, dear. We don’t really have a take on tonight’s special election in Massachusetts, except that either it will provide Demrats an excuse for not doing what they should have done months ago, or it will provide Demrats an excuse to keep dragging their feet until another excuse turns up.

So we launch our Open Thread/Existential Dilemma in utter confusion: Will it mean anything either way? Is it even worth a beer? Should we have run with Frisky Dingo instead?

And if Scott Brown wins, as expected: How long can we get away with calling him Senator Happy Trail?

Specifically, Neil Young’s old Packard:

Only $49,500. Damn I would love to have that old thing.

I thought an old Packard wagon was needed before we step off the cliff of the MA senate race.

Hemmings Find of the Day [Hemmings Auto Blogs]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFRHyi1jvDE

What? Ray Stevens is still around? And he’s got a new anti-Obamacare song that O’Reilly likes?

O’REILLY: So 48 years ago — 48 years ago in this country we could make fun of Arabs… We could make fun of people in a general way, and certainly, Ahab the Arab was a general parody. But now, we can’t. What has changed in America?

STEVENS: I think we’ve gone overboard with the political correctness, just like so many other people think the same way about that. And I don’t know. We’ve got to come out of that, I think.

Oh, Ray. Yes, we’ve gone overboard with political correctness, but even that was twenty years ago, you old fart. And you don’t need to defend Ahab — just say the times were different, and leave it at that.

Because two old white farts complaining about “political correctness” sorta makes the point, y’know? Lookathat, lookathat.

O’Reilly laments that you can’t make fun of Arabs anymore: ‘What has changed in America?’ [ThinkProgress]

This sounds about right:

A new CBS News poll finds that a large majority of Americans say they do not want former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin to run for president.

Specifically, 71 percent say they do not want the former Republican vice presidential nominee to run for president, while 21 percent say they do want her to run.

When the results are split out by party, 56 percent of Republicans say they do not want her to seek the office and 30 percent do. Meanwhile, 88 percent of Democrats do not want her to run. Among independents, 65 percent do not want her to run and 25 percent do.

We, of course, want her to run. Dearly. Political entertainment like that is hard to come by.

Poll: Most Don’t Want Sarah Palin to Run for President [CBS]