Stinquer Mellbell would like to share with all of you a piece from the Artomatic show in Northern Virginia.

At first, I thought the painting was attached to a dog kennel.

Alas, no, but nonetheless R.I.P. Seamus.

Our guest columnist is casting a commercial in New Mexico, with the following selected requirements.

Project: New Mexico Tourism

Type: Regional COMMERCIAL. NON-Speaking Principal roles. NON-UNION.

Talent Specs:

FAMILY

REAL FAMILIES: Caucasian or light skinned Hispanics.

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Friend of mine took this about 15 minutes ago – storm is roughly 210 miles east of her:

So I figured I’d make the drive up from Chicago to see what all the hub-bub was about.  I decided to leave early, as word was that all the downtown and campus parking ramps filled up quickly; come late, and I’d have to park in a fallow field or something.

Turns out I came too early.  Thus I had forgotten one of the most important things I learned in law school — Sunday mornings are dead as a doornail around here.  Saturday night, after all, is Saturday night — if you were up-and-at-em at 9:00 in the morning on Sunday, you were either going to church or you didn’t party hard enough.

But things did get rolling around 11:00 at the Capitol — the Letter Carriers’ union was kicking things off.  A stroll around, and inside, the Capitol gave me a taste of what has been going on here for the past three weeks.  The general impression you get was that this was, exceedingly and without question, a civil crowd.  There were maybe one or two signs that pushed the limits (like one with a picture of Osama bin Laden with Scott Walker’s face superimposed — carried by a firefighter, of all people).  Other than that, the reports of violent overthrow and armed rebellion have been greatly exaggerated.

More visuals, post-jump.

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While we just can’t get excited over the Shocking! revelation that Bill O’Reilly used Sacramento footage to illustrate “union thuggery” in Wisconsin, we have to give props to the enterprising Madisonites who have added some impromptu set design to their protest.

And speaking of thuggery, Wisconsin Republicans are ready to put on their jackboots:

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“A fetus has been scheduled as a legislative witness in Ohio on a unique bill that proposes outlawing abortions after the first heartbeat can be medically detected. Faith2Action, the anti-abortion group that has targeted Ohio to pilot the measure, called the in-utero witness the youngest to ever come before the House Health Committee at 9 weeks old.” [Fox 8 Cleveland, via Political Wire]