I would have done the same:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXrQ_GoMMt4

There’s more ugly news out there if you’re not yet sufficiently bummed, but Sandy Eggo is enjoying its first sunny day in more than a week (we’re deducting the overcast from the rent), and damn if we’re gonna let the happy-happy-joy-joy get away from us:

Today is the 50th anniversary of the Etch A Sketch. It was invented in the late 1950s by André Cassagnes, a Frenchman, who named it L’Ecran Magique (the magic screen). The Ohio Art Company bought the toy in 1959, renamed it Etch A Sketch, and launched it onto the American market on July 12, 1960.

That’s right: The Etch A Sketch is French. We’re calling it a Freedom Scribbler from now on.

Etch A Sketch turns 50: amazing art created with the drawing toy [Telegraph UK, via PourMeCoffee]

Image: Salvador’s Deli by Jeff Gagliardi

“A 37-year-old man shot and killed five individuals as well as injured four others in a mass shooting at a Southeast Albuquerque business late Monday morning, according to police… The shooter had a self-inflicted gunshot wound.” [KRQE]

Cleveland comic book author Harvey Pekar dead at 70 [Chronicle-Telegram, via Weigel]

Cleveland comic-book legend Harvey Pekar dead at age 70 [Cleveland Plain Dealer, via Tom Tomorrow]

Our best hope in the Clone Wars showed up on CNN to disown his potential constituents:

Utah Republican Mike Lee said Friday that he favors changing the way senators are elected, even as he seeks his own seat in that body.

Speaking on CNN’s John King, USA, Lee said that the 17th Amendment was a mistake, and that while he wouldn’t focus on repealing it, he does “think that we lost something when we adopted it.”

The 17th Amendment established the direct election of senators by the popular vote. Senators had previously been elected by state legislatures.

We thought we were done with this issue after Glenn Beck helpfully explained that you could use one of those rare 1913 wall phones to call your local politico about your senator, who would pass along your complaints to other politicos at the statehouse, who would then laugh in your face exercise their solemn constitutional reponsibility to put a different crook in office recall your senator from D.C. for a severe tongue-lashing.

But no, it’s not going away. Which raises the question: Where the hell did it come from?

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Yeah, you guys know this already, but it’s still a classic headline. 

From the Daily Telegraph: “Tory MP ‘too drunk to vote in Commons debate.'” Snips, including some nice turns of phrase, and a positively Pythonesque name on the offender:

Mark Reckless [Oh, dear. — Ed.] was one of a number of MPs accused of being “well-refreshed” and “convivial” during the late night sitting which finished at 2.48am on Wednesday.

The 39-year-old new MP for Rochester and Strood had been drinking alongside scores of MPs on the Commons Terrace and was not the only one said to be worse for wear.

John Randall, the deputy chief whip, was accused by Angela Eagle — the shadow Treasury minister — of having indulged in “rather a liquid evening”.

Stephen Pound, the Labour MP, said Miss Eagle could not be heard in the Commons “because of the well-refreshed ejaculations [Oh dear, cont’d.  — Ed., cont’d.] from the benches opposite.”

Mr Reckless, who became an MP at the general election in May, was understood to have had difficulty standing and has scant recollection of the night.

“I feel very embarrassed,” he said. “I’m terribly, terribly embarrassed. I apologise unreservedly and I don’t plan to drink again at Westminster. It was a mistake I will not be repeating. I have learned my lesson.”

No, Mr Reckless.  Booze it up.  Maybe Steve King (R-Dumb Half of Iowa) might take a lesson and give us all what would be some of the best legislative comedy EVER.

Alright, Paul the Psychic Octopus has predicted Spain will defeat Holland. We’ll see about that…

And how do their hotties line up?

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