So there’s the Strip-Searched Boy at the Salt Lake City airport (which the TSA disputes), the Broken Urostomy Bag at Detroit, the Removed Prosthetic Breast, the— fuck it. It’s an arms race out there for the best TSA Horror Story, and we just can’t keep up.

Longtime inmates will recall that “Morning Sedition” began as an inside joke. We were doing some volunteer geeking at the old website (long story), but nobody had posted at the old website for a few days. Following an outcry among the masses, we asked permission of the Former Overlords and posted a brief item to keep things fresh.

That was Tuesday. But the Overlords remained AWOL, so we posted another item or two Wednesday. Yet the Gaping Void remained unfilled, so Thursday morning we posted a link dump of headlines, called it “Morning Sedition”, and the rest is history. (The Overlords finally returned from their alternate universe Friday night, and decreed that our Accidental Blogging would become permanent. Much to their later chagrin.)

We were so fucking mildly clever — Morning Sedition. HAHAHAHAHAHA!!! It was funny because it was a play on a well-known radio news program, and we had taken over the website! Now our sharp wit would take over the world!

Until we learned a few weeks later that “Morning Sedition” had also been the name of a popular Air America program.

Oops.

Of course, we had never heard of the program, since, like most Americans, we never listened to Air America. For that matter, the program itself had long since been canceled, if still fondly remembered in certain circles. So, we decided, fuck it: We liked the name, it was original to us, if not to the world, and if somebody called us on it, we’d just claim honest ignorance and fuck you.

And then it happened again.

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Title: “Getting Into The Vortex: Guided Meditations CD and User Guide”

Authors: Esther Hicks and Jerry Hicks

Rank: 6

Blurb: “Living a better-feeling life really comes down to one thing only: coming into alignment with the Energy of our Source. Abraham reminds us that we are truly Source Energy focused into our physical bodies, and that a conscious Connection to that Broader Non-Physical part of us is necessary if we are to be the joyful Beings that we were born to be. Abraham calls that wonderful alignment Getting into the Vortex.”

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“I was at a dinner last night where everyone in the room had to name a few policies that they thought would increase economic growth in the coming decades.”
—Ezra Klein, age 26, Washington Post

• “I’m sorry, is the riotous orgy next door?”
• “Pardon me! I’m usually able to hold it until I reach the curb.”
• “Your mother’s in here. Would you like to leave a message? I’ll see that she gets it.”

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVE60zwXx1k

And after the chimp finished, Michigan quickly hopped to a nearby cornerstone, where he could safely hide for another century.

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Rev. Mark D. Boykin of the Church of All Nations in Boca Raton: “We are asking that before he takes the oath of office, Gov.-elect Scott gets rid of his stocks from [Playboy Mexico-affiliated] QuePasa Corporation. The governor of the state of Florida should not be benefiting or have an interest in pornography. It goes against our family values.” [Miami Herald, via Raw Story]

“MSNBC said Friday that it is suspending ‘Morning Joe’ co-host Joe Scarborough for two days after he acknowledged giving eight previously unknown $500 contributions to friends and family members running for state and local offices during his tenure at the network, a violation of parent NBC’s ban on political contributions by employees without specific permission from the network president.” [Politico]