We usually raid WorldNetDaily for the lighter side of rabid wingnuttery, but every so often — well…

A pro-life organization is blasting a Switzerland-based cosmetics manufacturer whose website openly admits some of its products were developed from the tissues of an aborted baby.

Too good to be true? Let’s find out!

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Nancy Pelosi is expected to release the House version of the death panel healthcare bill this morning, and the good folks at Team Sarah are ready to crowdsource pages 1 through 1880 for signs of socialism. “Please ONLY report items that are truly egregious or Red Flags,” the leaders remind the troops, and for assistance, they’ve provided the following taxonomy of egregiousness:

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• Pigs fly: 50,000:1
• Christ descends from Heaven: 80,000:1
• “Just kidding,” says Joe Lieberman: 750:1

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Geraldo Rivera v. Lou Dobbs

Rivera: “Lou Dobbs is almost single-handedly responsible for creating, for being the architect of the young-Latino-as-scapegoat for everything that ails this country.”

Dobbs: “Geraldo Rivera wouldn’t know a fact if it hit him in the rear end — and that would probably be an appropriate place if you wanted him to absorb the information.”

Analysis: Plenty of material to mine for both of them — you can just hear the dicks thump the table.

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Items planned for auction on eBay and elsewhere to raise money for the defense of Scott Roeder, who will be tried in January for the murder of George Tiller:

• “Army of God” manual, including instructions for bombing abortion clinics; the instructions will be covered up, and interested parties referred to relevant sections of the U.S. Army manual.
• Cookbook of “prison recipes” by Shelley Shannon, who shot Tiller in 1993 and was later convicted for abortion-clinic bombings; the “prison cheesecake” is recommended.
• Handwritten book of commentary and cartoons by Shannon.

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State of Minnesota v. Sara Ruth Peck, opinion of the Minnesota Supreme Court, October 22 (abridged). The phrase “bong water” appears 64 times in 27 pages.

ANDERSON, G. Barry, Justice.

In this appeal we consider whether the term “mixture” applies to bong water that tests positive for the presence of a controlled substance…

Peck moved to dismiss the first-degree controlled-substance charge for lack of probable cause, arguing that as a matter of law the 37.17 grams of bong water did not constitute a “mixture” under Minn. Stat. § 152.01, subd. 9a (2008)…

On September 4, 2007, the crime lab issued a report indicating that the jar contained a “pink liquid exhibiting a fruity odor,” and that the liquid weighed 37.17 grams and tested positive for the presence of methamphetamine…

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When Rachel Maddow had Americans for Prosperity’s Tim Phillips over for a barbecue the other night, one of the skewering points was whether a corporate-backed organization could be called “grassroots.” Phillips put up a spirited fight, despite Rachel saying — to his face, in the studio — that someone who had waged the smear campaign against Max Cleland was “a parasite who gets fat on Americans’ fears.”

Turns out sick puppies aren’t the only ones questioning the provenance of Tea Parties and similar political roadshows. In a development we missed a couple weeks back, the teabaggers have the same complaint:

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