“Falling in love with you could really fuck up my plans for becoming President.” [GQ, via Poltical Wire]

From the people who brought you the instaclassic Demon Sheep, now comes — well, we’re not sure what. But we suggest that California Republican primary voters stay away from the brown acid.

Peter Graves, Spymaster and Host, Is Dead at 83 [NYT]

Title: “Courage and Consequence: My Life as a Conservative in the Fight”

Author: Karl Rove

Rank: 6

Blurb: “Courage and Consequence is ultimately about the joy of a life committed to the conservative cause, a life spent in political combat and service to country, no matter the costs.”

Review: “I must admit, I fell hook, line and sinker for the media’s version of Karl Rove as an evil man. Reading the book, he comes across as an intelligent, thoughtful and heartfelt person.”

Customers Also Bought: “The Complete Idiot’s Guide to the U.S. Constitution,” by Timothy Harper

Footnote: “Just get me a fucking faith-based thing. Got it?”

Courage and Consequence [Amazon]

Buy or Die [Stinque@Amazon kickback link]

National Geographic bills its “Sizing Up Sperm” special as “the story of human conception as it has never been told before,” using “real people to represent 250 million sperm on their marathon quest to be first to reach a single egg.”

National Geographic’s dramatization of a Giant Tit rampaging the forest was unavailable for preview.

Sizing Up Sperm [NatGeo, via Sully/Laughing Squid]

Eyes up, gentlemen:

A Manhattan woman whose picture was used as a sexual aid in the hit movie “Couples Retreat” has filed a $10 million lawsuit over her inspiring — and unwitting — appearance in the Vince Vaughn flick.

Irina Krupnik “only learned of defendants’ lascivious use of her photo in the film” after it was released in theaters — and was horrified to discover it was being used as a “masturbatory prop” for a character played by Jon Favreau, the makeup artist says in papers filed in Manhattan Supreme Court.

Remember, “Couples Retreat” is a work of fiction. Nobody would ever use Ms. Krupnik’s image as whacking material in real life.

Woman sues over unwitting appearance in ‘Couples Retreat’ [NY Post, via Above the Law]

The city of Prescott, Arizona, would like to apologize in advance to anyone offended by any lingering Spanish displayed on its Census street banner. A sister banner — entirely in Spanish — was removed after complaints from four dozen citizens. And two city council members.

Spanish Census banner comes down after complaints [Daily Courier, via ThinkProgress/C&L]