We need to step through this very slowly, because we think the world shifted when we weren’t looking:

More than 100 drivers in Austin, Texas found their cars disabled or the horns honking out of control…

Okay, that part we understand. Living in California, you get used to car concertos after earthquakes.

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The Pontiac brand is dead, dead as a doornail, but some cannot let it die with dignity:

The Lingenfelter Trans Am, a bastardization of the new Camaro… good idea, or mocking the dead?

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The Minnesota-Bachmann Victory Committee is charging $10,000 for a personal photo op with Michele Bachmann and Sarah Palin. [HuffPo, via Political Wire]

Why do they allow the always-wrong Kagans to say anything at all? More stupid shit from Robert K:

The contretemps between President Obama and Israel needs to be seen in a broader global context. The president who ran against “unilateralism” in the 2008 campaign has worse relations overall with American allies than George W. Bush did in his second term.

Right – far better to have an administration that launches an expensive, unwinnable, and unnecessary war, urged on by people like the Kagans.

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Now they’re mocking Parkinson’s victims:

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“A thousand people have donated over $16,000 to Dennis since yesterday to thank him for standing up for what he believes in. We’ll be asking him to return it.” [Firedoglake]

The Mercenaries Formerly Known as Blackwater would like to correct the record for faithful readers of the Washington Independent:

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