The website “I Write Like” purports to analyze any text you paste into it, comparing it to any of fifty authors in its database.

With a spam filter.

Okay, it’s slightly more complicated than that. Using the same technique that underlies many spam filters, Dmitry Chestnykh dumped books into his database. If what you submit matches the digital fingerprint of a given author, you win!

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Hey, ever hear of the Tides Foundation? Neither have we!

Okay, fine, some of you have. Everybody who’s an activist — leave the room.

All gone? Good.

Truth be told, we have heard of them, but it’s a name that only crosses our path every two or three years — or only slightly more frequently than we’ve heard “Saul Alinsky” since a boring polisci class some thirty years ago.

Until last year, of course, when wingnuts made “Rules for Radicals” an Amazon bestseller.

So we’ve found it more than a little odd that Byron Williams was heading for the ACLU and the Tides Foundation when he got into a little exchange of Second Amendment Remedies with CHP on the 580 Saturday night. Like, dude, you’re going after a soap company? What’s up with that?

Or, to put it another way: If we, an advanced-degree Left Coast libtard who recently had to drop our NYRB subscription to help pay for our iPad, don’t know our Tides from our Surfrider from our Ducks Unlimited, how the hell is Williams so hip?

Unless — no, wait, let us guess…

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We suppose, to be consistent, we should object to this novel request:

State elections officials narrowly rejected a Milwaukee Assembly candidate’s attempt to run with the slogan “NOT the ‘whiteman’s bitch’ ” under her name on the ballot.

Ieshuh Griffin, a Milwaukee independent running to replace retiring Rep. Annette “Polly” Williams (D-Milwaukee), said in response she would sue the Government Accountability Board for infringing on her freedom of speech.

“I’m not making a derogatory statement toward an ethnic group. I’m stating what I’m not,” Griffin told board members. “It’s my constitutional right to freedom of speech.”

Then again, to be really consistent, we would have to flip the history of the United States on its head.

Board rejects ‘whiteman’ ballot language from Milwaukee candidate [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]

“The people who have been laid off and cannot find work are generally people with poor work habits and poor personalities… As I survey the ranks of those who are unemployed, I see people who have overbearing and unpleasant personalities and/or who do not know how to do a day’s work. They are people who create either little utility or negative utility on the job.” [American Spectator, via ThinkProgress]

“White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs today offered an apology to Shirley Sherrod on behalf of the Obama administration. He said Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack is trying to reach Sherrod as well, to offer his own apology and to ‘talk about their next steps.'” [TPM]

Meet Isaiah Mustafa. Oh, you already have?

The Old Spice Man’s Internet Triumph [Daily Beast, via Sully]

Why the Old Spice Guy Is Good for Black America [The Root]

Competitor		Latest Play
	Andrew Breitbart	Playing an impressive three matches at once, snookered the NAACP, Roland Martin, and the Obama Administration.
	Fox News	Executed a stunning bank shot by snookering the Obama Administration on both sides of the Sherrod Smear.
	BP	Despite early setback, now poised to snooker American politicians and courts.

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