Orly Taitz, whose role in our civic life appears to be making Michele Bachmann look reasonable, is a deadbeat.

You may recall — and really, who could forget? — that America’s Most Frightening Dentist owes The Citizens of These United States a cool twenty grand because of a Vast Judicial Conspiracy designed to thwart her efforts to remove the Schvartze Usurper from the Baila House.

Well, it turns out — we hope you’re sitting down — she hasn’t paid yet.

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Drill deep and don’t spill a drop with Oil Spill Condoms [Grist, via Dodgerblue]

“North Korea’s football team has been shamed in a six-hour public inquisition and the team’s coach has been accused of ‘betraying’ the reclusive leader’s heir apparent following their failure at the World Cup, according to reports.” [Telegraph UK]

Attention, Cannabis-Americans! Dianne Feinstein wants to harsh your mellow:

In the name of saving children from candy-flavored methamphetamine, the U.S. appears on the verge of mandating more than a year in jail for anyone who cooks up a batch of pot brownies.

A bill by California Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein that has recently reached the Senate floor has cannabis advocacy groups concerned that potent, medical-grade edible products would become a higher crime carrying weighter sentences, ostensibly to protect children from ingesting strawberry-flavored meth.

Wait: Meth?

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TH_dKfBI40

The Management regrets to announce that this morning’s previously scheduled post, If the iPad is Just a “Consumption Device” Then So Are Books, You Fucking Geek Posers, has been canceled so that we might bring you this very special English lesson from Korea.

Parts of the audio are, how you say, Not Safe For Work. Other parts are likely Not Safe For A Certain Stinque Patron’s Parents, although we lack the linguistic competence to judge for certain, and know better than to trust subtitles.

As you watch, and, perhaps disregarding our warning, listen, remember to bear this in mind: These people produce our cartoons.

[via Kottke]

“Evangelical Christian minister Tim LaHaye says that the policy initiatives put forth by the Obama administration are bringing the country ‘closer to the apocalypse.’ LaHaye issued the dire warning in an appearance this week on Mike Huckabee’s talk show on Fox News.” [HuffPo]

“I have confirmed that [Nevada Republican gubernatorial candidate] Brian Sandoval, as reported by Univision’s news director in a column and revealed in an earlier blog post, did indeed say that his children don’t look Hispanic when asked by the Spanish-language station whether he was worried about his kids being profiled if they were in Arizona.” [Las Vegas Sun, via Political Wire]