Have you heard about the new flu that threatens to turn our brains to a mass of jiggling Jello and fill the streets of our major cities with flesh eating Zombies? I’m talking about the Mexican flu. Haven’t heard of that one yet? Maybe you were preoccupied by the recent swine flu epidemic and didn’t hear about the Mexican flu. I’ll bet if that’s the case, then you probably haven’t heard of the Obama flu either. If so, don’t worry. I’ll let you in on a little secret: they’re all the same disease. It’s just that different people like to call it by different names. Let me toss another name out for you: the H1N1 virus. That’s what scientists like to call the new flu strain, because they’re all into funny names that make no sense at all and like to make the rest of us feel stupid. H1N1… wasn’t that one of the robots from Star Wars?

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Space Alien Laughs at Own Joke About Giving John Edwards an 'Antenna Job' in TV interview with Mutual of Omaha's 'Wild Kingdom'

When Elizabeth Edwards learned that her husband John was pestorking a space alien named Rielle Hunter she cried, wailed and finally blew chunks, so revolted was she by the thought of her husband of decades climbing into a space ship with a creature from another planet, pestorking it and ultimately siring a space alienette with the diabolical monster.

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If you’ve heard this album you know how important it is. If not, you’re musical life has been impoverished. Tom Scott’s flute solos are worth the price of admission:

Threshold! Jesus, What an Album!

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Usually when I want to write a blog post it’s because I’ve seen something so stupid that nothing else could top it that day.  If I post around noon, almost without fail I will see something stupider before All Things Considered  comes on at 4 pm.  But today is different.  There is so much stupid so early that I can’t decide. 

1. George Will has written a 747 word column complaining about … denim.

2. Michele Bachmann claims the 6 Muslim guys thrown off a plane were on their way to Rep. Ellison’s victory party (hint – they weren’t).

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Just in case you are somewhat puzzled by the title of this post, allow me to explain: The word “orthography” specifies an academic discipline most commonly practiced by the largely Socialist, America-hating faculty of elite Northeastern colleges like Harvard, Princeton, Yale and the Massachusetts Community College at Quinsigamond. Like Socialism, orthography is doctrinaire and very strict in its oppressive, freedom-limiting dogmas, allowing for little variation from its largely capricious and arbitrary norms. Much as they demand adherence to political correctness, Marxist theorists at Yale, for instance, demand “orthographical correctness” of their students, and will frequently deduct points from essays and reaction papers that diverge even the slightest from the orthographical straight-jacket devised by such America-hating orthographical activists as Noah Webster.

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CATO scholar Arnold Kling (whose economic views seem to vary a lot depending on who is president) reacts to a piece by Ezra Kline by writing:

“My view of the American health care system is that it hardly rations health care at all. That is why we spend so much more than other countries. I wish we put more responsibility on individuals. Instead, we have this delusion that we cannot possibly afford health care if we pay for it individually, but of course we can afford it if we pay for it collectively.”

What’s the fallacy in Kling’s logic? The fallacy, quite simply, is that Kling does not understand the idea of shared risk. He does not understand the purpose of insurance. He does not understand why the collective might want to pay for services that are rendered, at any given time, only to a subset of that collective.

Medical treatment is expensive, and in many cases, treatments may prove too expensive for any one individual to afford. But accidents and illnesses are also somewhat random in their distribution across a population. Therefore, by creating a risk pool and having all members of that pool pay into it, society can ensure that the unlucky few who are stricken by disease or who are injured in an accident can pay for the medical treatment they need by drawing from that pool.

The question is not whether a “collective” can afford medical treatments that individuals cannot (this issue has been settled beyond dispute, and it is embarrassing to have to explain a concept so basic and trivial as “insurance” to an economist like Kling) the issue is whether a scheme of private, non-mandatory insurance coverage can do the job more effectively than a public, government-run, single-payer system.

Twisted Jesus Freak Juan Alberto Ovalle Bagged On His Way to Meet Agent Posing as Nearly Pre-pubescent Girl, as Sick as He Is Jesufied, As If There Is a Fuckng Difference. Die, Alberto! Die!

Focus on the Family’s own Voice of Jesus, Juan Alberto Ovalle, was bagged by the Jefferson County, CO. District Attorney’s Office on his way to meet a near-pre-teen girl on Monday, a blithe, alluring and dewy vessel of pre-womanhood – who turned out to be a cop who had to listen to him describe how she was going to sit on his face –  and arrested for unspeakable monstrosities.

Ovalle, narrator of the snakehandler cult’s bible CDs for Spanish language Jesus freaks, has been arrested on suspicion of using the Internet to arrange sex with a teenage girl and attempted sexual assault on a child.  The assholes from Focus on the Family pretended to be surprised, as if this isn’t part of the whole fucking snakehandler ethos. “We’re shocked,” Focus on the Family prevaricator in residence, Gary Schneeberger, told the Denver Post, no doubt to peels of laughter.

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