The above monument, commemorating the birth of the United Federation of Planets’ most famous starship Captain, can be found in Riverside Iowa. Clever.

(Via: Gizmodo)

Stinque, publisher of the Stinque Zombie Bible, wishes Juliana and Benjamin a happy and brain-splattered life together.

Wedding of Juliana S. Park & Benjamin J. Lee [Wedding Jojo, via Comics Alliance]

Stocking Is the New Planking [via @daveweigel]

Our guest columnist is Texas Ron Paul supporter Robert Morrow, who placed the above ad in the Austin Chronicle, and whose accusations we can neither verify nor resist.

The same man who used a presidential prayer rally (8/6/11) for his personal ambitions and who often spouts Christian buzzwords and Bible talk to advance his political career is a flagrant adulterer, having sex with women who are the approximate age of his daughter Sydney, age 24.

I know this because I am a patron of Austin strip clubs. My friends and excellent contacts in the Austin strip club community tell me that Rick Perry, a la Bill Clinton, has an enabling entourage who gets him “young hotties” to have sex with — both here in Austin and especially when he is on the road. I learned about this before the 2010 Texas primary. I had an attractive stripper tell me about her direct dealings with Rick Perry. She said that she was attempting a Monica Lewinsky-type act upon Gov. Rick Perry (oral sex) but that in her words Perry was “too coked up” to perform sexually! When it came time for the stripper to leave, Perry gave her an outrageous amount of money, so large in fact that it probably means that Perry is taking cash bribes or illegal gifts to fund his extracurricular activities. Perry is not a rich man and I doubt he is spending that much of his own money on the women. (Actually sweetheart real estate deals have made the man unusual money.)

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When faced with the sheer middle-class brutality of Piers Morgan’s attack-dog interview technique, Chrissy does what any self-respecting Bagger does when confronted with questions: she walks off the set. Or at least she tries to. As I’ve always said, if you plan on exiting in a huff don’t let them wire you under your clothes. You’ll be stuck in your seat and most likely trip on the wire.

Like most of you I too am outraged that Piers refused to ask Chrissy the questions she wanted to answer. What is he, a journalist?

Andrew Sullivan today links to a critique of Paul Krugman’s analysis of the so-called “Texas Miracle” in job creation that is alleged to have ocurred during the past few years. The critique is by Kevin Williamson and appears in the National Review. I won’t quote from the article extensively (you can follow the link and read it yourself) but I will offer my own rebuttal of its claims: Read more »

Hang on, folks, the next few weeks are gonna get ugly:

On September 11, 2001, terror attacks on New York, Washington, D.C. and Pennsylvania killed almost 3,000 people. On September 12, the survivors, the families of the victims, the first-responders woke up to find their lives irrevocably altered — as did all Americans.

Ten years later, Yahoo! is asking: How have you changed since September 11?

Quite honestly, we haven’t. Other than being ten years older. But we can’t blame Osama for that.

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