Our guest columnist is the Media Research Center.

Have you ever fantasized about beating Bill O’Reilly to death with a crowbar or shooting up the offices of Americans for Prosperity with an Uzi?

Video Game Allows Players to Slaughter “Tea Party Zombies” Like Sarah Palin and Bill O’Reilly [MRC]

Tea Party Zombies Must Die!

Haven’t we suffered enough? And don’t we all know it’s going to get much, much worse? Meanwhile, some of our more productive members of society are doing this. I have no idea who these people are but I suspect they are not part of Team Sarah, Team Mitt, or Team Rick.

Oh, and my lawyers need to talk to Disney about copyright infringement at about the 2:35 mark, but whatever.

With all this death, default, and debt ceiling news, I need a little balm for my soul.  How about Dalmatian puppies?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70RkO1MZ0uY

[Holy Cuteness]

“This news anchor for Russian Canadian Broadcasting can’t keep herself from bursting into laughter while reporting a story about…”

No, wait. Let’s hold back that detail for a moment. Presuming you don’t know Russian, you have to appreciate it in the abstract.

Okay. Ready?

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“President Obama is going to be visiting Joplin, Missouri, on Sunday, but you know what they’re talking about, like this right-wing slut, what’s her name? Laura Ingraham? Yeah, she’s a talk slut. You see, she was, back in the day, praising President Reagan when he was drinking a beer overseas. But now that Obama’s doing it, they’re working him over.” [TPM]

Rand Paul describes the plot of Ayn Rand’s novel Anthem. If you’ve never heard of it, it sounds exactly like an Ayn Rand novel.

[via Weigel]

“San Francisco’s big push for low-flow toilets has turned into a multimillion-dollar plumbing stink. Skimping on toilet water has resulted in more sludge backing up inside the sewer pipes, said Tyrone Jue, spokesman for the city Public Utilities Commission. That has created a rotten-egg stench near AT&T Park and elsewhere, especially during the dry summer months.” [SFGate]