This guy needs to be finished off now (his awful NYT interview got the ball rolling):

He’ll never be on the ballot in my state if I have anything to say about it. Pedicures … feh.

Idiots:

Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) isn’t satisfied with his #7 ranking in Rolling Stone’s list of the “planet’s worst enemies.”

Having been one of Congress’s most ardent opponents of climate change legislation for years, Inhofe wants the top spot.

“I should have been number one,” Inhofe told KFAQ radio in Tulsa (audio here.) “I guess [Warren] Buffet has a lot more money so he went first.”

Inhofe could care less whether his fellow Oklahomans roast in the sun before having their homes washed away.  Similarly, Senator Jim DeMint:

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Let’s keep things in perspective, shall we?

President George W. Bush looks out over the devastation in New Orleans from Hurricane Katrina as he heads back to Washington D.C. Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2005, aboard Air Force One. White House photo by Paul Morse.

Since I mentioned it in the comments … stick with it at least until he takes the car on the road … imagine seeing that flash by you.  Stunning, at least to this gearhead.

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As there are often discussions about grammar in the comments, I thought I’d throw out one of my favorite rules, inviolate to me, and let you guys duke it out:

The serial comma (also known as the series comma, Oxford comma or Harvard comma) is the comma used immediately before a grammatical conjunction (usually and oror, sometimes nor) preceding the final item in a list of three or more items. For example, a list of three countries can be punctuated as either “Portugal, Spain, and France” (with the serial comma) or as “Portugal, Spain and France” (without the serial comma).^[1][2][3]

Opinions vary among writers and editors on the usage or avoidance of the serial comma. In American English it is standard in most non-journalistic writing, which typically follows the Chicago Manual of Style. Journalists, however, usually follow the Associated Press Style Guide, which advises against it. It is less often used in British English.^[4][5] In many languages (e.g. French,^[6] German,^[7] Italian,^[8] Polish,^[9] Spanish^[10]) the serial comma is not the norm – it may even go against punctuation rules – but it may be recommended in some cases to avoid ambiguity or to aid prosody.

Like Strunk and White before me, it was, is, and always shall be “red, white, and blue.”

Who else?

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He convinced me to go here and send more money to help.

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From tonight’s show:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIaAL9FcL_k