A year-old girl finds magazines distressingly unresponsive to her touch, because, y’know, that’s how flatscreens are supposed to work. We presume it’s our duty to fret about the future of humanity in a world of iGadgets — and if we don’t, somebody else will — but honestly, we canceled our remaining magazine subscriptions, oh, eighteen months ago, so we’re probably not the best advocate for Traditional Reading Values.

[via Yahoo]

Michele Bachmann: “For my tax plan, I take a page out of one of my great economists that I admire, Ronald Reagan. And under my tax plan I want to adopt the Reagan tax plan. It brought the economic miracle of the 1980s. Why not go with what works? I want to reinstitute the Reagan tax model from the 1980s.” PolitiFact: “The top [tax] rate dropped immediately to 50 percent in 1982 and stayed there through 1986.” [TPM]

Mrs. Perry on Mr. Perry: “He is the only true conservative — well, there are some true conservatives. And they’re there for good reasons. And they may feel like God called them too. But I truly feel like we are here for that purpose.” [MSNBC, via Political Wire]

While we remain on Impossible Project Deadline, please enjoy this Russian kitty who’s channeling our thoughts.

[via Know Your Meme]

“New Hampshire’s secretary of state warned Wednesday that he could set a primary date as early as Dec. 6 unless Nevada moves back the date of its caucuses. Bill Gardner, who has set the date of New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation primary since 1976, issued a memo calling Dec. 6 and Dec. 13 (both Tuesdays) ‘realistic options’ unless Nevada agrees to set its primary for Tuesday, Jan. 17 or later.” [MSNBC, via Political Wire]

“A bill filed Tuesday by Rep. Brad Drake, R-Eucheeanna, would allow for executions by firing squad. HB 325 would eliminate Florida’s standard method of execution, lethal injection, and allow for executions only by electrocution or firing squad.” [Florida Current]

“The sponsor of the law that made it legal to carry a gun into bars in Tennessee is facing charges of possession of a handgun while under the influence and drunken driving.” [Knoxville News Sentinel, via jwmcsame]