Our guest columnist this afternoon has us wondering how we got on his email list.

Dear Supporter,

How far does your influence go?

Right now, The Sarah Palin Legal Defense Fund wants to see how far you can help spread the news about this opportunity to help Governor Palin and her family.

Click here to send a note to your friends and family members and see how far your influence spreads across the country.

Using our online tools, you can send a message about The Sarah Palin Legal Defense Fund to your family and friends. Each person who participates will be added to a map as a pink dot. With your help, we can cover the map with Sarah’s supporters throughout the country!

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WorldNetDaily, the Black Knight of Birtherism, is not giving up.

Last time we checked in with them, they were undermining their own story about how the local Honolulu papers were snookered by the health department: The only way for Baby Barack to have been born in Kenya, we determined — based on WND’s own evidence — was for Mom to have jumped the Mombassa redeye Friday night to meet the Monday filing deadline.

Well, okay, fine. WND will grant the point. But only so, like a magician releasing a bird from the other egg, they can amaze you with their latest feat: It doesn’t matter.

Because even if Barack Obama was born in Honolulu, he’s still not a natural-born citizen!

Whoa! Bet you didn’t see that coming!

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Our guest columnist this afternoon is the spawn of Irene Flaugher and John Bourgholtzer, credited to Ronald Reagan and Jane Wyman.

Hello, I am Michael Reagan, eldest son of President Ronald Reagan and like you I am deeply concerned about the future of our country.

Unfortunately we have another problem. People who believe in true Reagan Conservative Values are unwittingly supporting the Obama, Pelosi and Reid liberal agenda! What do I mean? Well, every time you use your email from companies like Google, AOL, Yahoo, Hotmail, Apple and others, you are helping the liberals. These companies are, and will continue, to be huge supporters financially and with technology of those that are hurting our country.

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“Rather than being a unifier, Mr. Obama has divided America on the basis of race, class and partisanship. Moreover, his cynical approach to governance has encouraged his allies to pursue a similar strategy of racially divisive politics on his behalf.” [WSJ]

Daily Show co-creator Lizz Winstead: “I get really frustrated when people claim that the Daily Show is sexist when I’ve worked with Jon Stewart on four separate projects and he is the least sexist person ever. They’re not trying to not hire women, they’re trying to hire the best possible people for the show. You can call it a boy’s club, it’s not. It’s a nerd club… When I first launched that show, I got 150 writer submissions. Three were from women. Three, that’s it.” [Bloggasm]

If you’re not a geek, you probably don’t know that PHP stands for “PHP Hypertext Processor,” if you even know what it is. (Hint: You’re soaking in it!) For that matter, you’re even less likely to know about GNU, or that it stands for “GNU’s Not Unix.”

Geeks love those self-referential language games. They treat them like logic puzzles, thinking that such blandly clever constructions will Blow. Your. Mind.

Except that they don’t, no more than All Cretans Are Liars. (And All Cretins Are Assholes, but that’s just a mere tautology.) Language is not a mirror of the world. It’s not even a system of representation. It’s just a means of expression, better articulated than most. (Ask your cat.) We swim in language, and sometimes pee in it, but we shouldn’t mistake it for the stuff natural scientists deal with. It’s just hot air, dead trees, and excited pixels.

Which is why this annoys the hell out of us:

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Above: In a new YouTube ad, Joe the Plumber endorses Missouri’s Chuck Purgason for Senate.

Below: Next time, check your references.

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