Looks like the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review got an early start Friday on its Cinco de Mayo partying.

Do What? [Romenesko, via Sully]

“At Ohio State University in Columbus, where Obama is set to speak around 1:25 p.m. ET on Saturday, Romney aides are planning to circle the candidate’s campaign bus.” [Yahoo]

[NY Daily News]

“Obama will officially launch his 2012 re-election campain, and no I’m not kidding, on Karl Marx’s birthday, May 5th! First, we learn that Earth Day was started on the birthday of Vladimir Lenin, the Communist butcher and founder of the USSR, now we learn that Barack Obama, America’s first Marxist president, is launching his campaign on the father of communism’s birthday? Come on, now. This is just too appropriate! How fitting!

“Coincidence? Stupid oversight? Or, an intentional middle-finger in the face of the American people?”

—Freedom Post

• May 5, 1260: Kublai Khan becomes ruler of the Mongol Empire.
• May 5, 1640: King Charles I dissolves the Short Parliament.
• May 5, 1809: The Swiss canton of Aargau denies citizenship to Jews.

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Like the Unabomber, our guest columnist will stop at nothing to promote its agenda.

Billboards in Chicago paid for by The Heartland Institute point out that some of the world’s most notorious criminals say they “still believe in global warming” — and ask viewers if they do, too. The first digital billboard — along the inbound Eisenhower Expressway (I-290) in Maywood — appeared today.

The Heartland Institute is widely recognized as a leading source of science and economics questioning claims that man-made global warming is a crisis…

1. Who appears on the billboards?

The billboard series features Ted Kaczynski, the infamous Unabomber; Charles Manson, a mass murderer; and Fidel Castro, a tyrant. Other global warming alarmists who may appear on future billboards include Osama bin Laden and James J. Lee (who took hostages inside the headquarters of the Discovery Channel in 2010).

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We’re not sure how we expected to react upon watching “The Scream” being auctioned for $119,922,500. Perhaps we were supposed to be Shocked! that someone could blow 119,922.5 large on a painting. Perhaps we would contemplate the Horror! that it would take us three millennia to earn that kind of scratch. Perhaps we would manifest a Comically Abject Expression of Fear Suitable for a Blockbuster Movie Poster! while listing the worthwhile things $119,922,500 could provide instead.

But you know what caught our attention? The rotating pedestal they used to display it, like something out of a game show. We’re a cheap date.

[via WaPo]

[Telegraph UK]