It looks like we won’t have Mike Lee to kick around after tonight, when he shames his fellow clones by going down in blazes in the Republican runoff for the Utah Senate nomination. Mike Lee’s last-minute flurry of emails to us Monday had the putrid smell of flop sweat, betraying the cardinal rule that Mike Lee Never Shows Fear. (Mike Lee smells bad enough in conventional circumstances, which is why there’s always a Cone of Distance surrounding him at movies.) Utah voters were also taken aback after the bombshell revelations that Mike Lee sponsored an East Coast horse race on Sunday and curses like a motherfucker on his blog.

Speaking from experience, we can honestly say that we wouldn’t trust Mike Lee to subclass an NSURLConnection. How can we trust him in the Senate?

Let’s set the Wayback Machine for November 2007…

JAYE: “Hundreds of billions of dollars — wow. Well, forgive me if I sound like a skepic, because that’s a lot of money. It sounds too good to be true. Congressman, is it for real?”

HAYWORTH: “It is for real. Now look, I understand the skepticism, in part because President (Ronald) Reagan used to say the greatest contradiction ever uttered was, ‘I’m from the government, and I’m here to help.'”

JAYE: (Laughs.)

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“Fearing that even marginal voter preferences for tea party candidates could spell doom in November, Republicans now claim that the dozen or more Florida Tea Party candidates running for statehouse seats are part of some Sunshine State shenanigans.” [TPM]

“A French prisoner killed his cellmate then sliced open his chest to remove and eat his heart, a court has heard. However, the man removed the wrong organ, and ate his lung by mistake.” [Telegraph UK]

“As electronic highway billboards flashing neon advertisements become more prevalent, the next frontier in distracted driving is already approaching — ad-blaring license plates… The device would mimic a standard license plate when the vehicle is in motion but would switch to digital ads or other messages when it is stopped for more than four seconds, whether in traffic or at a red light.” [San Jose Mercury News]

Protest in Argentina [MSNBC, via PourMeCoffee]

Louisiana lawmakers propose prayer to stop oil disaster [CNN]