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We’re slowly coming to the upsetting realization that Other Things Happened during our Lost Week — things we would have been happy to note, had we not been caught up in noting things that surely qualify us for a Local Peabody.

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Damn, glad we got BozoGate in before this dropped…

Democratic Virginia House candidate Krystal Ball (yes, that’s her real name) went on the offensive Wednesday after racy photos of her surfaced online this week.

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[CNN]

“BE IT REMEMBERED, this date, the Court having ordered all present in the courtroom to stand and recite the Pledge of Allegience, and having found that Danny Lampley, Attorney at Law, failed and refused to do so, finds said Danny Lampley to be in criminal contempt of court.” [NMissCommentor, via Sully]

Damn, now we’re obsessed again.

We briefly noted yesterday afternoon a photo of three young Latino men branded as ILLEGAL ALIENS in ads by Sharron Angle and David Vitter. The way these things work, we figured it was a stock photo — but looking for it quickly then, and devoting more time to it Wednesday night, we couldn’t turn up the source.

So who are they? Are they models who signed off on a generic contract, and have yet to discover where their faces have turned up? Are they actual illegal immigrants, perhaps photographed for an L.A. Times feature? What’s their story?

Jon Chait at TNR had the same question yesterday afternoon:

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If you have seventeen minutes to spare, why not enjoy a trip down memory lane? Or, if you’d rather not enjoy San Francisco after the 1906 Earthquake (and Fire! never forget the Fire!), there’s always the prequel.

[via Kottke]

While we were out amusing ourself in Bozoland, Sharron Angle and David Vitter were apparently raiding the same stock-photo house to frighten the bejeezus out of voters. A quick search of istockphoto.com for “latino gang” — “129 search results for Latin American and Hispanic Ethnicity AND Gang Member” — doesn’t turn up any matches, but we’re sure the original’s out there somewhere.

Angle And Vitter Use The Same Photo Of ‘Illegal Aliens’ In Racially-Tinged Attack Ads [ThinkProgress]