“People growing marijuana indoors use 1 percent of the U.S. electricity supply, and they create 17 million metric tons of carbon dioxide every year (not counting the smoke exhaled) according to a report by Evan Mills, an energy analyst at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.” [SF Business Times]

“Former gubernatorial candidate Rory Reid’s campaign manager oversaw an operation last summer and fall that first erected an overall PAC that could take unlimited contributions and then created mini-PACS that would only exist temporarily to funnel that money back to the Reid campaign, emails I have obtained show.” [Las Vegas Sun, via Political Wire]

“State GOP leaders are calling on former Lt. Gov. candidate Caroline Fayard to apologize after she told a Democratic audience last week that Republicans are ‘bullies’ who are ‘cruel and destructive’ and ‘eat their young.'” [New Orleans Times-Picayune]

Our guest columnist is W.C. Sullivan of the FBI, writing on December 28, 1961.

You may be interested in the following information which was furnished to the Bureau Agents during the course of the South America assessment survey:

As you know, a few weeks ago Ted Kennedy made a tour of several Latin American countries…

In Mexico, Kennedy asked Ambassador Mann that certain left-wingers be invited to the Embassy residence where interviews could be held. Mann took the strong position that he would not invite such people and stated that if any such interviews were to be conducted, all arrangements should be made by Kennedy himself.

Douglas Henderson, State official in Lima, confidentially advised that Kennedy had made similar requests in Peru. Henderson described Kennedy as pompous and a spoiled brat.

While Kennedy was in Santiago, he made arrangements to “rent” a brothel for an entire night. Kennedy allegedly invited one of the Embassy chauffeurs to participate in the night’s activities.

Judicial Watch Obtains Previously Redacted Material from the FBI File of the Late Senator Ted Kennedy [Judicial Watch, via Raw Story]

Our afternoon guest columnist is Anonymous. We think. Please, for the sake of your epistemological health, let’s just stipulate that as given, okay?

Dear Phred Phelps and WBC Phriends,

So we’ve been hearing a lot about some letter that we supposedly sent you this morning. Problem is, we’re a bit groggy and don’t remember sending it. Our best guess is that you heard about us on that newfangled TV of yours and thought we might be some good money for your little church.

You thought you could play with Anonymous. You observed our rising notoriety and thought you would exploit our paradigm for your own gain. And then, you thought you could lure some idiots into a honeypot for more IPs to sue.

This is not so foreign to us; as you may have heard, we trade in Lulz. You just do not have enough to offer right now.

While Anonymous thanks you for your interest, and would certainly like to take a break and have some fun with you guys, we have more pressing matters to deal with at the moment.

But, we will keep this application on file, and will certainly contact you if any openings become available in future.

Next time, don’t call us. We’ll call you.

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“As part of his plan to remake all of pop culture in his image, Will Smith has begun prepping to update the musical Annie as a vehicle for Daddy’s little X-chromosome edition Willow, who’s been preparing her whole life to play the singing wind-up plaything for a rich man.” [AV Club, via John Hodgman]