We’ve been a geek since age 15, although we took a decade off to explore other things before being dragged back in. (We used to blame it on buying an answering machine, which ended our Luddite Interval forever.) These days we earn a serious part of the rent by developing and maintaining websites, which means we’ve spent a serious amount of time thinking about passwords.

About which, we discovered last night, we’ve been seriously wrong.

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Meet Dorli Rainey, age 84, shortly after being pepper sprayed at Occupy Seattle. Since she’s a senior citizen, I bet she votes, so she can’t get shit on that front. But I’m sure the MSM will find a way to mock and marginalize her, too.

[Seattle P-I]

Another sign we’re becoming Idiot America:

Last month, the BBC released Frozen Planet, its much-anticipated follow-up to the Planet Earth series. The new seven-part documentary explores life in the Arctic and Antarctic, including an entire episode on the dangers posed by humans and global warming.

However, viewers in the United States will not see that final episode because the BBC believed it would not play well abroad.

So now the Brits think we’re too stupid for their programmes? And this part kills me:

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“That is not a practical, top-tier alternative and here’s why. If you look at the topography of Iran. Where are you going to strike? It’s very mountainous. That’s what makes it very difficult.” —Herman Cain!, also from Monday’s interview, explaining why he wouldn’t attack a nuclear Iran. [ThinkProgress]

Next time you check in to Marcus Bachmann’s clinic pretending you need help to pray away the gay while all the time you are collecting material for an exposé and then don’t bother to show up for the last two sessions because… well… why would you, do not be surprised if the next voice you hear is Marcus demanding payment.

B-man gets all pissy, yo.

“I’m not supposed to know anything about foreign policy. Just thought I’d throw that out.” —Herman Cain!, defending his Libya answer by arguing that a president’s job is to listen to “commanders on the ground”. [JSOnline, via Political Wire]

This is going to get very ugly very quickly. We’re going to quote a passage at length from the Penn State grand-jury report — the part that describes what then-graduate assistant and now-assistant coach Mike McQueary saw in the locker-room shower, and what he did about it. Especially the latter.

We’re quoting the passage because McQueary’s been — in our judgment — too casually condemned for his response. Andrew Sullivan, in particular, has been all over it. And, to jump ahead to our point, we’re not sure we would have handled it any better. Or, more precisely, we have no fucking clue how we would have handled it. Hindsight not only distorts perception, it distorts the facts.

Here’s the relevant passage, from page 6:

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