And Sarah Palin can play point guard:

A new professional basketball league boasting rosters made up exclusively of white Americans has its eyes set on Augusta, but the team isn’t receiving a warm welcome.

The All-American Basketball Alliance announced in a news release Sunday evening that it intends to start its inaugural season in June and hopes Augusta will be one of 12 cities with a team.

“Only players that are natural born United States citizens with both parents of Caucasian race are eligible to play in the league,” the statement said.

Racism? Of course not, says AABA Commissioner Don “Moose” “No, we’re not making this up” Lewis:

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There is no intrinsic meaning to Tuesday’s election. The better campaign won: from what we can tell at a distance, one candidate was hungry, the other expected to be served dessert.

There’s certainly no meaning to the tally itself: of some two million votes cast, a hundred thousand divided winner from loser. The country has been narrowly split for a long time; if there’s any trend to identify, that’s it.

Teddy’s seat won a by Republican? Senator-elect Happy Trail was introduced by former Governor Mittens. Republicans are no stranger to statewide office in Massachusetts.

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Oh, dear. We don’t really have a take on tonight’s special election in Massachusetts, except that either it will provide Demrats an excuse for not doing what they should have done months ago, or it will provide Demrats an excuse to keep dragging their feet until another excuse turns up.

So we launch our Open Thread/Existential Dilemma in utter confusion: Will it mean anything either way? Is it even worth a beer? Should we have run with Frisky Dingo instead?

And if Scott Brown wins, as expected: How long can we get away with calling him Senator Happy Trail?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFRHyi1jvDE

What? Ray Stevens is still around? And he’s got a new anti-Obamacare song that O’Reilly likes?

O’REILLY: So 48 years ago — 48 years ago in this country we could make fun of Arabs… We could make fun of people in a general way, and certainly, Ahab the Arab was a general parody. But now, we can’t. What has changed in America?

STEVENS: I think we’ve gone overboard with the political correctness, just like so many other people think the same way about that. And I don’t know. We’ve got to come out of that, I think.

Oh, Ray. Yes, we’ve gone overboard with political correctness, but even that was twenty years ago, you old fart. And you don’t need to defend Ahab — just say the times were different, and leave it at that.

Because two old white farts complaining about “political correctness” sorta makes the point, y’know? Lookathat, lookathat.

O’Reilly laments that you can’t make fun of Arabs anymore: ‘What has changed in America?’ [ThinkProgress]

This sounds about right:

A new CBS News poll finds that a large majority of Americans say they do not want former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin to run for president.

Specifically, 71 percent say they do not want the former Republican vice presidential nominee to run for president, while 21 percent say they do want her to run.

When the results are split out by party, 56 percent of Republicans say they do not want her to seek the office and 30 percent do. Meanwhile, 88 percent of Democrats do not want her to run. Among independents, 65 percent do not want her to run and 25 percent do.

We, of course, want her to run. Dearly. Political entertainment like that is hard to come by.

Poll: Most Don’t Want Sarah Palin to Run for President [CBS]

Shit. If we knew it would last this long, we would have brought a change of underwear.

Good Morning, Ladies & Gentlemen [Homofascist’s Army, 1/19/2008]

Stinque We Must [Unbearable Hamster, 9/25/2008]

The Year in Review [Stinque, 12/31/2008]

The Rise of the HFA [Stinque, 1/19/2009]

We’re having a difficult time wrapping our head around the following exchange Sunday:

MR. GREGORY: In some circles, the president’s been criticized for politicizing this disaster. Do you think that’s fair?

FMR. PRES. BUSH: I don’t know what they’re talking about.

Shrub’s response is being played in some circles as a repudiation of Beck and Limbaugh, who are using the occasion of six-figure death tolls to score cheap political points with their audiences. And we guess it is a repudiation — if you want to go there.

But why go there?

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