In addition to getting paid for attending an upscale titty bar, America’s Hatemonger Rush Limbaugh was also in the news last week as part of a bid to purchase the St. Louis (when’d that happen?) Rams.

We don’t see a problem with that — George Will’s “violence punctuated by committee meetings” could be stretched to describe Rush’s show as well as professional football — but apparently some athletes who are happy to play for asshole owners draw the line at asshole racist owners:

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Title: “How to Survive the End of the World as We Know It: Tactics, Techniques, and Technologies for Uncertain Times”

Author: James Wesley Rawles

Rank: 22

Blurb: “It would only take one unthinkable event to disrupt our way of life. If there is a terrorist attack, a global pandemic, or sharp currency devaluation — you may be forced to fend for yourself in ways you’ve never imagined. Where would you get water? How would you communicate with relatives who live in other states? What would you use for fuel?”

Review: “His book was fascinating to a guy like me, who before reading this, hardly ever thought about packing for a nuclear holocaust.”

Customers Also Bought: “Going Rogue: An American Life,” by Sarah Palin

Footnote: Also available in a Kindle Edition! (Electricity not included.)

How to Survive the End of the World as We Know It [Amazon]

Buy or Die [Stinque@Amazon kickback link]

Candidate Barack Obama, November 29, 2007: “America is ready to get rid of the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy. All that is required is leadership.”

Candidate Obama, April 7, 2008: “I reasonably can see ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ eliminated.”

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• Pete Carroll, head coach, USC: $4,400,000
• Charlie Weis, Notre Dame: $4,200,000
• Nick Saban, Alabama: $3,900,000
• Bob Stoops, Oklahoma: $3,800,000

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• AP: “Miley Cyrus quits Twitter, deletes account”
• MTV: “Miley Cyrus Deletes Her Twitter Account For Liam Hemsworth”
• NJ Star-Ledger: “Miley Cyrus quits Twitter because of her boyfriend? Make your own decisions, Miley”
• Sawf News: “Miley Cyrus: ‘I didn’t quit Twitter because my boyfriend told me to'”

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Marge Simpson makes cover of Playboy [Reuters]

On a day when the world is drinking a Coke in celebration of Pax Obama, some unsettling news from war-torn South Floridastan — a Second Amendment love-in at a shooting gallery got a little out of hand:

Armed with handguns and AK-47 and AR-15 assault rifles, the members of the Southeast Broward Republican Club abandoned the usual community center for their club meeting this week, and gathered at a gun range where they fired bullets instead of political bombshells…

Though most of the targets of gunfire were standard gun-range fare — large silhouettes of a human figure — a few shooters used large color posters instead. They depicted a menacing figure, adorned in a kaffiyeh, the kind of headdress worn by the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. The person in the picture was holding a rocket-propelled grenade.

One of the shooters at the Tuesday evening event was Robert Lowry, a Republican candidate hoping to unseat U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Weston. Lowry’s target had the letters “DWS” next to the silhouette head.

Remember the rule here: The more folks we can get on board to foment assassination, the less chance any single person can be blamed for it.

Broward Republicans go gunning [South Florida Sun-Sentinel]