Title: “Troublemaker: Let’s Do What It Takes to Make America Great Again”

Author: Christine O’Donnell

Rank: 5247

Blurb: “From the moment she upset a heavily-favored incumbent in the primary for the special election to fill the Senate seat vacated by Joe Biden, Christine O’Donnell made headlines. Though she didn’t win the general election, O’Donnell did win the designation of 2010’s Most Covered Candidate. And what people were talking about wasn’t just gossip: they responded to a fresh, unencumbered voice that appealed to voter frustration with politics — and politicians — as usual.”

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Turdblossom Comes Alive:

Former Bush advisor Karl Rove says he believes former Alaska governor Sarah Palin will enter the Republican presidential race sometime around Labor Day. Appearing on Fox News Saturday morning, Rove said Palin “has a schedule next week that looks like that of a candidate, not a celebrity.” Rove also cited a new campaign-style video Palin has released on her recent visit to the Iowa State Fair as evidence Palin is gearing up for a run.

It remains the case that any evidence you can cite regarding Talibunny cuts both ways: Either it proves she’s running, or it proves she’s burnishing her brand before America inevitably moves on. The latest video isn’t conclusive, nor is the scheduled September 3 rally in Iowa.

It also remains the case that Bushies don’t like Deranger Rick.

Our gut call: Rove is fucking with Perry.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrg_6dny6Po

Our exciting new series How Posts Are Hacked Together Things Are Made continues today with a probing look at toilet paper. Surprisingly, it doesn’t cover the engineering challenge of keeping bits from flecking on Teddy Bear butts.

[via Kottke]

Missouri’s Republican lieutenant governor Peter Kinder, recently photographed at a family establishment where “Every night’s a pantless party!”, would like you to know that he was really doing God’s Work:

In his first interview on the topic, Kinder, a Republican from Cape Girardeau who is widely expected to run for governor next year, said he first visited Diamond Cabaret in Sauget after a baseball game in St. Louis when he was a state senator in the mid-1990s. After that, he said, he returned about 10 times. He said he saw [Tammy] Chapman, a former Penthouse Magazine model who worked there as a dancer.

Kinder said he stopped visiting the club after he concluded that it contradicted his religious beliefs.

“I came to realize that this is not consistent with my upbringing. I’m a Christian,” he said. “I was raised in a good family, and I thought, you know, continuing to go there is leading me down the wrong path.”

Mr. Kinder was born in 1954, which would make his Peter in its forties when he visited the strip joint ten times before The Lord informed him that Jesus would keep it zipped.

Peter Kinder answers stripper allegations [STL Today, via TPM]

“Oregon Congressman Peter Defazio is traveling around his district and leveling verbal body blows at President Obama. In his Eugene office Wednesday, Defazio accused the President of lacking the will to fight for the promises he made to get elected.” [KGW]

Stinque, publisher of the Stinque Zombie Bible, wishes Juliana and Benjamin a happy and brain-splattered life together.

Wedding of Juliana S. Park & Benjamin J. Lee [Wedding Jojo, via Comics Alliance]

Stocking Is the New Planking [via @daveweigel]