Orly Taitz, whose role in our civic life appears to be making Michele Bachmann look reasonable, is a deadbeat.

You may recall — and really, who could forget? — that America’s Most Frightening Dentist owes The Citizens of These United States a cool twenty grand because of a Vast Judicial Conspiracy designed to thwart her efforts to remove the Schvartze Usurper from the Baila House.

Well, it turns out — we hope you’re sitting down — she hasn’t paid yet.

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We would love to recommend this handsome Periodic Table of Swearing, available in a “signed Giclee print in limited edition of 300” that would look great on any bathroom wall, but at £90 it costs too fucking much.

Periodic Table of Swearing • Detail View [Modern Toss, via Kottke]

Won’t you join Mr. Dipshit Republican Asshole, Dr. Ewemustah Beshittinme, Mrs. Hillbilly Douchebag, Führer Adolf Hitler, Dr. Doo Little, Jesus Christ, and Mr. Osama Bin Laden in signing the petition to draft Sarah Palin as chair of the Republican Narional Committee? We can think of nobody else who could improve upon the joy that Michael Steele has brought into our lives.

Draft Sarah for RNC Chair

One year ago today, Sarah Palin declared her Independence from Responsibility. As America celebrates the anniversary of her spectacular flameout, the Consumer Product Safety Commission reminds you to be careful when handling popular Wasilla Pipedream explosives. Remember, “head asploding” is a metaphor.

• If you had to choose between sucking off Joe Lieberman and drowning in a fetid shark-infested cesspool, which would it be?
• Name your favorite natural disaster.
• How many kittens can you microwave in 45 seconds?

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Hey, it was either this or a detailed explanation of why you have to nil your asynchronous NSURLConnection instance delegate when deallocing a view, lest the spare thread create a zombie and crash your app when it finishes its work in the background and discovers that its callback protocol left the building.

Because that’s what we spent Friday night thinking about.

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