Whatever else you might think of Mark Sanford, it’s clear that he’s a, um, visionary:

South Carolina first lady Jenny Sanford recalls how she made the “leap of faith” to marry husband Gov. Mark Sanford even though the groom refused to promise to be faithful, insisting that the clause be removed from their wedding vows.

“It bothered me to some extent, but… we were very young, we were in love,” she said in an exclusive interview with Barbara Walters to air on “20/20” Friday. “I questioned it, but I got past it… along with other doubts that I had.”

Pure genius: You can’t break a vow you never made in the first place.

Jenny Sanford Exclusive: Husband Refused to Be Faithful in Wedding Vows [ABC, via TPM]

We’ve often mentioned that we find Countdown to be fine dinnertime entertainment. Weekdays at five is a perfect time for light political news. We doubt we could suffer anything like that at eight, but that’s a convenience of living on the Left Coast.

It helps that we don’t take Keith Olbermann seriously enough to bother with criticism. You can see the leading questions a mile away, and we enjoy watching guests try to bat them to the side. The show’s full of fun foul tips.

Which is why we also enjoy folks who do take Olbermann seriously, as if he was somehow important. The attacks fly from both directions — one side treating him at a hotheaded celebrity who needs to be taken down a peg, the other side treating him as a hotheaded traitor who dares question the Neocon Ascendancy.

Folks like Stuart Schwartz of Liberty University and the American Thinker:

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• That’s odd. We’ve only seen three of them. [Oscars]
• What we talk about when we talk about DADT. For the next year. [NYT]
• Sarah calls Rahm indecent for calling opponents “fucking retarded.” [Facebook]
• Talibunny’s latest supermarket bomb. Although the publisher swears this one isn’t checkstand poison. [WaPo]

Every so often, we’re rudely reminded that we live a sheltered life. We should be thankful for that — if we’re easily distracted by flame wars over the iPad’s lack of Flash, we have it pretty good. Some things we just don’t have to deal with in our life.

For example, we’re not a twelve-year-old girl forced into prostitution on the streets of Atlanta. We don’t have to deal with pimps. We don’t have to deal with johns. We don’t have to deal with the police.

And we don’t have to deal with goddamn soulless Christians who don’t give a shit about our plight.

Case in point: Georgia state senator Renee Unterman has introduced a laudable bill that “would steer girls under the age of 16 into diversionary programs instead of arresting them as prostitutes.”

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Hey, everybody, Adam Kokesh is celebrating his 27th birthday today! And his New Mexico congressional campaign wants you to celebrate by donating to his Birthday Bomb!

We’re quite busy with chores today, alas, so we can’t dress up our stock Kokesh Beefcake Photo with dollars stuffed in his waist. And while we considered adding a quickie Stripper Pole, that just reminds us of Martha Stewart, which spoils all the fun.

That’s what we’re supposed to say, right? Anyone who even thinks about cutting defense spending is a traitor to our country?

I don’t think any agency of the federal government should be exempt from rooting out wasteful spending or unnecessary spending. And I, frankly, I would agree with it at the Pentagon. There’s got to be wasteful spending there, unnecessary spending there. It all ought to be eliminated, and we should be going through this budget line by line and, and asking the question, is this spending worth having to borrow money that our kids and grandkids are going to have to pay back?

That just sounds too reasonable to be trusted. But we can’t for the life of us figure out what Senator Non-Alliterative-Title Representative SprayTan is up to.

Boehner: Pentagon Should Be Part Of Spending Freeze [TPM]

We’ve heard that the sole purpose of London Sunday newspapers is to scare the shit out of you. But will the effect last until Monday? Let’s find out!

Britain is facing a new Al Qaeda terror threat from suicide ‘body bombers’ with explosives surgically inserted inside them.

Until now, terrorists have attacked airlines, Underground trains and buses by secreting bombs in bags, shoes or underwear to avoid detection.

But an operation by MI5 has uncovered evidence that Al Qaeda is planning a new stage in its terror campaign by inserting ‘surgical bombs’ inside people for the first time.

Well? Staining your underwear yet?

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