It’s looking very likely that we’ll have to live with this the next six years. Tune in tonight at 7pm ET for our Election Night Open Thread/Clone Wars and find out!

• Doom: 1:1
• Pestilence: 1:1
• Cannibal Anarchy: 1:1

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There are in politics, as well as in books, Unforgivable Curses.

On January 24, 1992, Ricky Ray Rector was executed in Arkansas.

By all accounts, Rector was a Bad Man. One night in 1981, he killed someone in a nightclub. He then shot a cop in the back. Finally, he shot himself in the head.

Alas, that last shot sort of missed. Rector was left alive, but brain-damaged. It was as that brain-damaged shell that Governor Bill Clinton made a point of executing him, just so primary voters would know he was “tough on crime.”

We’ve never forgiven Clinton for that. Whatever his successes, whatever his other high crimes, misdemeanors, and dry-cleaning bills, we’ve never forgiven Clinton for his capacity to fry a man in his pursuit of the presidency.

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Well, okay, not quite. More like field-testing:

Russian bears have grown so desperate after a scorching summer they have started digging up and eating corpses in municipal cemetries, alarmed officials said today. Bears’ traditional food — mushrooms, berries and the odd frog — has disappeared, they added.

Once offshore R&D is completed, the next phase will involve American cemeteries and Tea Party activists. Researchers hope that by ridding graveyards of their inhabitants, the chances of a Zombie Apocalypse will be greatly reduced. And with other species disappearing at an alarming rate, delicious McCorpses may be our only hope for survival.

Russian bears treat graveyards as ‘giant refrigerators’ [Guardian UK, via Yahoo]

More species slide to extinction [BBC]

Kentucky Stomper Identified As Paul’s (Now Former) Bourbon County Coordinator [TPM]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCB7RqGS684

We also would have accepted being smothered under a ton of fluffy pillows.