As if we wouldn’t get this title back:

The English, who invented lawn mower racing, couldn’t let that stand. Don Wales went to Pendine Sands (in Wales) and reset the mark to 87.8.

Last month, [Georgia’s Bobby Cleveland] pushed the limit to a little over 96 miles per hour. The quote from Bobby says it all. “It scared me so good,” he said.

Lawn Mower Land Speed Record Returns to ‘Merica Where it Belongs [Jalopnik]

As everyone by now knows, Carl Paladino, the GOP candidate for New York Governor, went on an anti-gay rant on Sunday to a crowd of Hasidic Jews, saying that he didn’t want children “brainwashed” that homosexuality is acceptable. The next day he “clarified” his comments by explaining it is because gay pride parades are disgusting and terrible and feature “men in Speedos bumping and grinding” against one another and that his opponent Andrew Cuomo was wrong to bring his daughters to the parade. (This was a few days after the man who has two families went on a bizarre tirade describing Cuomo’s legendary prowess in remarks to reporters. Somebody has a dick fascination. Or tea-bagging?)

Well, naturally it’s time for the other shoe to drop. The hypocrisy wing-tips fit him so nicely.

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Well, if it’s Thursday it must be another domestic worker drama affecting a right-winger.  Today it’s former CNN anchor and current Tea Party darling Lou Dobbs, best known for his vile diatribes against undocumented workers and the people who employ them.

According to The Nation, one of the few media outlets that still does hard-hitting investigations, Dobbs has employed at least five illegal immigrants for years to take care of his daughter’s champion horses in Florida and Vermont, and to maintain his million dollar estates in New Jersey and Florida.

Dobbs, who has said that employers of undocumented workers “should face felony charges” refused to comment on the story.

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We’re announcing a new campaign to protest Christians building their Citadels of Sin on American soil:

Two young men in Georgia said Tuesday that the pastor of a 33,000-person Baptist megachurch, Bishop Eddie L. Long, had repeatedly coerced them into having sex with him.

In two lawsuits filed in DeKalb County, the men said that Bishop Long, a prominent minister and television personality, had used his position as a spiritual counselor to take them on trips out of state and perform sexual acts on them.

Bishop Long is the pastor of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Lithonia, an Atlanta suburb. It is one of the largest churches in the country.

Bishop Long — no, really, that’s his name! — denies the accusations. But since 1987, his Terror Church has grown from 300 to 25,000 potential child molesters. Can we allow these Merchants of Mayhem to infiltrate our nation and subvert our values?

Lawsuits Accuse Megachurch Leader of Sexual Misconduct [NYT]

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If we’re done fretting about Sharia Law in America, let’s have a look in the other direction:

When Republican Senate candidate Sharron Angle told a Christian news interviewer this year that “entitlement programs (are) built to make government our God,” she voiced a central tenet of Christian Reconstructionism, according to academics who study the movement.

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“Democrats are considering a plan to delay tax hikes on the wealthy for two years because the economic recovery is slow and they fear getting crushed in November’s election. It could mean a big reprieve for families earning $250,000 and above annually.” But Geithner kiboshes the sellout. [The Hill, WSJ]

“There’s good news for American education. About three-quarters of residents — 74% — know the U.S. declared its independence from Great Britain in 1776. The bad news for the academic system — 26% do not. This 26% includes one-fifth who are unsure and 6% who thought the U.S. separated from another nation.” [Marist Poll]