“Snoop Dogg’s Sunday night Coachella closer was a monster of a set that featured many of hip-hop’s greatest hits and its biggest stars, one of whom died more than 15 years ago. Tupac arrived via hologram, seamlessly — and amazingly — joining Snoop on ‘Come With Me,’ ‘Hail Mary’ and ‘Gangsta Party.'” [Hollywood Reporter]

Virginia Foxx is one of those people we tend to ignore, because Virginia Foxx tends to say stupid things so frequently that we would need to create a spinoff blog to deal with her, along with spinoff blogs for Louie Gohmert, Allen West, and half the House Republican Caucus.

But every so often, Virginia Foxx catches our attention despite ourselves, usually because we can’t find an Existential Cat Video to distract us. And so it was that while speaking on Friday to G. Gordon Liddy — Remember, kids, don’t buy books from crooks! — Virginia Foxx dropped this well-polished turd:

I went through school, I worked my way through, it took me seven years, I never borrowed a dime of money… I have very little tolerance for people who tell me that they graduate with $200,000 of debt or even $80,000 of debt because there’s no reason for that.

Virginia Foxx, in case you were wondering, is 68. She graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill in 1968. If you’re a North Carolina resident, as she was, UNC will charge you $7,008 this fall for annual tuition and fees. If you’re from out of state, it’s a cool $26,834.

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Title: “Fifty Shades of Grey: Book One of the Fifty Shades Trilogy”

Author: E L James

Rank: 1

Blurb: “When the couple embarks on a daring, passionately physical affair, Ana discovers Christian Grey’s secrets and explores her own dark desires.”

Review: “The sex — it wasn’t hot at all. I wouldn’t even classify it as erotic. For some strange reason I have the opinion that you need to be able to refer to your vagina as something more erotic than ‘down there’ before you can pull off a significant hotness rating.”

Customers Also Bought: “The Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands” by Laura Schlessinger

Footnote: John Stossel’s book (#99) was too boring to deal with.

Fifty Shades of Grey [Amazon]

Buy or Die [Stinque@Amazon Kickback Link]

What was that we were saying the other day?

There was a long moment when we pondered our immediate fate as a Nice White Oregon Boy in the Wrong Los Angeles Neighborhood.

Meet Caine. Caine designed and runs a cardboard game arcade. In his dad’s auto-parts shop.

In East L.A.

Caine’s too young for us to have met him when our van stalled on an East L.A. overpass fifteen years ago. But in the alternate-universe version of our story, the one where we descend from the overpass and all our fearful preconceptions are proven hilariously wrong, he would have been part of our Excellent Adventure.

Caine’s Arcade

“Karen and I are life members of the NRA and we wanted to announce today that I talked to Chris and now Bella is a life member of the NRA too. And I hope it’s a long life.” —Rick Santorum today at the NRA Convention. Bella is 3. [BuzzFeed]

[via The Big Lead]

“I was out on a [oil] lease at one time and I got attacked by a turkey. Wait until you get attacked by a turkey. You will know the fear that a turkey can invoke in a person. And so I beat it with a club. That was all I could do. I wish that I had a gun with me.” —Oklahoma state senator Ralph Shortey, explaining why he voted for an open-carry firearms law. [Tulsa World, via ThinkProgress]