Jake Tapper:

apparently the standards are more exacting for an ASU honorary degree these days

The Corner:

His self-worship has created real problems for him and this will only feed into it. His vanity is his Achilles heel. The Nobel committee actually did him no favor.

Erick Erickson (RedState):

I just stopped myself from passing gas. I should get the Nobel Peace Prize for fighting against global warming and air pollution.

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Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize statement this morning:

Well, this is not how I expected to wake up this morning.

After I received the news, Malia walked in and said, “Daddy, you won the Nobel Peace Prize, and it is Bo’s birthday.”

And then Sasha added, “Plus, we have a three-day weekend coming up.”

So it’s — it’s good to have kids to keep things in perspective.

I am both surprised and deeply humbled by the decision of the Nobel Committee.

Let me be clear, I do not view it as a recognition of my own accomplishments, but rather as an affirmation of American leadership on behalf of aspirations held by people in all nations.

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Stealing the premise of Space: 1999 (and Michael Bay’s wet dreams), NASA will be blowing up the Moon about a half-hour from the time of this post. There’s no Rapture Insurance for this, alas, but the good news is that we probably won’t need our Porn Buddy to cover for us.

Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite [NASA]

Seeking to top the absurdity of hiring Perez Hilton to judge a beauty pageant, Miss America goes for the gold:

The Miss America Organization (MAO) announced today that Rush Limbaugh has been named as one of the national judges for the 2010 Miss America Pageant…

“We are thrilled to have Rush join us for our pageant this year,” said MAO President and CEO, Art McMaster. “He will bring a thrilling new dimension to the competition and we know that the 2010 Miss America Pageant will be filled with new twists and exciting opportunities with him as one of our national judges.”

We can only pray that one of the exciting opportunities doesn’t involve a cigar.

HOT OFF THE PRESS!! RUSH LIMBAUGH !! [GretaWire/Fox News]

A new Oklahoma law will require gathering statistics on every abortion performed in the state — and posting the details online:

1. Date of abortion
2. County in which abortion performed
3. Age of mother
4. Marital status of mother (married, divorced, separated, widowed, or never married)
5. Race of mother
6. Years of education of mother
(specify highest year completed)
7. State or foreign country of residence of mother
8. Total number of previous pregnancies of the mother
Live Births
Miscarriages
Induced Abortions

While the law doesn’t ask for name or address, you could pretty much open a bank account with the information given — especially in a small-town state, where any three of the questions would peg your neighbor.

Implementing the law (which is being challenged by the Center for Reproductive Rights) would cost Oklahoma taxpayers more than $250,000 a year. Apparently legislators overlooked a more efficient method, consisting of distributing cases of scarlet spray paint to county sheriffs.

New Oklahoma law will publicy post details of women’s abortions online [Think Progress]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_Yao6pSLxU

Little Bro Jeb kindly requests that we stop picking on his older sibling:

I was on the plane coming up to Washington yesterday, and I heard someone complaining that their child’s acne was because of George Bush. Of course, last week the Olympics didn’t come to Chicago — that was my brother’s fault. And at some point, people are going to have to put on their big-boy pants and assume responsibility for the great challenges and opportunities our country has.

That has to be embarrassing when your runt egghead brother rushes to your defense. Especially the one whom Father always loved more.

Jeb Bush: The Country Needs To Put On Its ‘Big-Boy Pants’ And Leave My Brother Alone [Think Progress]

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