Your extremely close-cropped face in the campaign web ad that torments our California readers is frightening the hell out of me. Please make it stop. Thank you.

These compassionate conservatives will be the death of us:

An evangelical Christian hate group called “Repent Amarillo” is reportedly terrorizing the town of Amarillo, Texas. Repent fashions itself as a sort of militia and targets a wide range of community members they deem offensive to their theology: gays, liberal Christians, Muslims, environmentalists, breast cancer events that do not highlight abortion, Halloween, “spring break events,” and pornography shops. On its website, Repent has posted a “Warfare Map” of its enemies in town.

And if you’ve lost Little Green Footballs, well …

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So you’re doing a story on the plight of professional porn stars, who are finding it difficult to earn a decent living in the Internet age. What’s the one quote you would kill your fluffer to get?

“It’s pretty bad,” says Ms Mayhem, who has 400 XXX American film credits to her name. “A lot of us are screwed.”

Yeah, that’s the one.

Being a porn star ain’t what it used to be [Brisbane Times, via RML]

Slow day, unless you want to argue whether the Pentagon shooter was a deranged wingnut or a deranged moonbat. So, in anticipation of Sunday’s Big Event Which Has Nothing To Do With Sport, we’ll note that J.D. Hayworth is mocking John McCain for enjoying Avatar too much. Or something like that.

Apparently an earlier version of this ad neglected to paint Psychogeezer’s face entirely blue, providing an excuse for McCain’s campaign manager to call it “insulting to Native Americans”. Now it’s just insulting to deranged LARPers.

Is Hayworth ad mocking McCain offensive? [Arizona Republic, via TPM]

Second Hayworth ad puts McCain in ‘blueface’ [Arizona Republic]

• Vatican blames Usher for choir prostitution. Er, an usher. [WaPo, via RML]
• Obama set to cave on civilian KSM trial. Don’t act surprised. [WaPo]
• Don’t Pee for Me, Arizona. [NYT]
• Mittens: “Single men might not attempt so many sexual conquests if they knew that the government would require them to pay support for any child that their exploits brought into the world.” [Politico, via Political Wire]

Left: A snow Venus de Milo painstakingly crafted — with artistic license for the six-pack — by Maria Conneran and her family, of Rahway, New Jersey.

Right: After the Rahway police investigated an anonymous complaint “of a naked snow woman.”

Nude snow sculpture in Rahway leads police to request ‘snowlady’ cover-up [Star-Ledger, via LuxMentis]