IBM said it has already simulated a cat-sized cerebral cortex — the area of the brain that’s key to memory, attention, and consciousness — using a massive Blue Gene supercomputer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California.

• Sleeps 22 hours a day
• Refuses commands
• Rejects mouse

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In what may be an historic moment, Fox News faired and balanced its production errors today, displaying anti-Palin tome Going Rouge when they meant to show fiction bestseller Going Rogue.

Twice.

The only possible explanation is that Virginia Foxx left behind some blotter paper after her last visit, which innocent Fox control-room proles mistook for Happy Teddy Bear Sweets. Either that, or their own poll showing that two-thirds of Americans — and more than half of Republicans — don’t have a problem with Obama bowing to foreign leaders, really harshed their mellow.

Fox Shows Cover Of Palin Takedown Book Instead Of Going Rogue [TPM]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqfsLG6Kuz0

It’s an old line, but if you remember the Sixties, you weren’t really there. Proving the point, Virginia Foxx (R-Jesse Helms) reveals her flower-child roots:

“We were the people who passed the civil rights bills back in the ’60s without very much help from our colleagues across the aisle.”

While we don’t recall LBJ switching parties to pass the Great Society legislation, we’ll take Ms. Foxx at her word. We also look forward to her next speech, explaining how it was Hubert Humphrey who mounted that despicable racist Southern Strategy a few years later.

Foxx: Republicans ‘Passed Civil Rights Bills Back In The 60s Without Very Much Help’ From Democrats [Think Progress]

As someone who never recovered from high school civics, we have strong beliefs regarding the right of the accused to a fair trial, including a robust defense, whatever the cost. We consider it an abomination that someone charged with a crime may lack the resources to defend himself against the deep pockets of the state, or may bankrupt himself in the process.

But in Jay Bybee’s case, we’ll make an exception:

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Republicans have been gunning for ACORN for years, but it took the election of a black president to make the insinuations stick:

PPP’s newest national survey finds that a 52% majority of GOP voters nationally think that ACORN stole the Presidential election for Barack Obama last year, with only 27% granting that he won it legitimately…

Belief in the ACORN conspiracy theory is even higher among GOP partisans than the birther one, which only 42% of Republicans expressed agreement with on our national survey in September.

Overall 62% of Americans think Obama legitimately won the election to only 26% who think ACORN stole it for him, as few Democrats or independents buy into that line of thinking.

Left unexplained is the ACORN Gap: Obama won 52 percent of popular vote, yet 10 percent more still think he’s legitimate. Who are those nuts?

ACORN [Public Policy Polling]

Sarah Palin dropped by Grand Rapids, Michigan, on the first stop of her book-signing tour. We cribbed Free Republic’s notes to bring you this exclusive second-hand account.

Wednesday before dawn.

Five hundred people in line, temperature in the 30s. By 7 a.m., a thousand more have joined them, everyone wanting an autograph, which will be the only authentic thing about the ghostwritten book they purchase.

12-year-old Katie Hughes, who has waited in line since 3 a.m., “is such a huge Palin fan that she pasted a Palin poster on her bedroom ceiling so the politician is the last thing she sees at night and the first thing in the morning.” Katie is going to lead an interesting life.

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As you can see from the clip, Fox News invited Sarah Palin to fire up the volunteers manning their phone banks—

Hold on… The audio’s now coming in, and apparently it’s Gregg Jarrett saying how Palin is “continuing to draw huge crowds while she’s promoting her brand new book. Take a look at — these are some of the pictures just coming into us. There’s a crowd of folks—”

Wait, wait… our producer now tells us that the footage we’re seeing is actually campaign B-roll from 2008, used to illustrate today’s large crowds.

Won’t you please give generously? Fox can’t get their library catalogued soon enough.

Fox News displays old campaign footage to claim Palin is getting ‘huge crowds’ at her book signings [Think Progress]

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