Conduct unbecoming an elitist.

Guilty Pleasures [Flickr]

With our economy in a shambles, you would think innovative home businesses would be encouraged. And by all accounts, the Dallas-area Cherry Pit has been a roaring success:

Police documents seized in a pair of July raids show that the weekend parties in the home were lucrative. Mr. Trulock and Ms. Norris had taken in at least $102,000 in donations from attendees during a 16-month period. The weekend parties drew hundreds of people, and parking overflowed into the street.

College kegger? Hardly. The Cherry Pit is a “swingers” club, a quaint throwback to the days when you could use that word without erupting in an orgasm of giggles. For fifty bucks you can cross the threshhold into a world of bad Seventies midnight movies, featuring a dance floor, profoundly well-stocked bar, and a six-way bed with what appear to be fresh sheets. Single gals welcome!

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We didn’t watch Idiocracy until recently, and well, it’s a little broad for our taste. It’s hard to do broad comedy in the Age of Irony — broad is vaudeville, and even Mel Brooks’ best work was well before 1980.

And yet as metaphor, if not as movie, Idiocracy is inescapable. Take the new Public Policy Institute of California survey of Prop 8 voters: Who was most willing to revoke the rights of their fellow citizens? Was it African Americans? Latinos? Republicans? Guess again:

Among Californians with a high school diploma or less, 69 percent voted for Proposition 8. Among college graduates, 57 percent voted against it.

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Several candidates are in Washington, D.C. this week; they’re scheduled to attend Vice President Cheney’s Christmas Party, which will be held [Thursday] night.
– Marc Ambinder, The Atlantic

• Plush Poo
• Liquid Ass
• Glazed Reindeer Crap

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What we know about Canadian politics you could drown in a bottle of Moosehead, but perhaps we should sit up and start paying attention:

Canada’s minority Conservative government may seek the temporary suspension of Parliament to stop opposition parties from voting it out and taking power, an aide to Prime Minister Stephen Harper said on Tuesday.

Now that’s how an imperial executive acts: like, well, a reigning monarch. None of this will-of-the-people crap from Shrub, who has been suspiciously happy to surrender power to Barry.

Dude: Refuse to step down. Defy Congress to challenge your authority. Pelosi? How many divisions has she got?

Canada government may seek to suspend Parliament [Reuters]

Poor PUMAs. Bitter in defeat, even more bitter after Their Gal won Miss Congeniality on Monday:

obama is an old-fashioned, back-room-dealing, fat-cat-pleasing, beholden, bought and paid for politician. Just like gwb.

They really should take lessons from their counterparts at Team Sarah, who couldn’t be more happy that Their Gal is standing up for draft-dodging Saxby Chambliss in today’s Georgia Senate runoff. Hey, she even brought her own snow!

As luck would have it we had what is RARE for us here in Georgia, snow flurries starting just before Sarah arrived. She said the snow made her feel right at home. My daughter and I drove up to the arena from our homes about one hour away with snow flurries falling all around. I thought about Sarah Palin’s reaction to our rare Georgia snowfall as we drove in. It was a WONDERFUL day in Georgia!

See, that’s the spirit. And if the crowds were almost as white as the weather, well, more’s the better.

Sarah Palin came to Georgia in true Palin style…and I was there! [Team Sarah]

Aren’t they supposed to wait for the Inauguration before stripping away our rights? Because how can we blame Barry for the Death of Liberty if Shrub gets there first?

The U.S. military expects to have 20,000 uniformed troops inside the United States by 2011 trained to help state and local officials respond to a nuclear terrorist attack or other domestic catastrophe, according to Pentagon officials.

Call it Red State Dawn, since the scheme has been in the works for years. And yes, it involves FEMA, although apparently not those camps where we’ll all be spending quality time after our guns are confiscated by giant DARPA electromagnets.

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