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Ladies and gentlemen, we might have a new low in GOP smear campaigns:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3o8hHTAcPI

Because John Ensign hasn’t done anything stupid or childish today … yet.

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[via Roy] The Anchoress

“We would not have toilets if a capitalist had not taken a chance, held his breath and flushed.” — The Anchoress.

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The ancient cities of the Indus Valley Civilization, e.g., Harappa^[1] and Mohenjo-daro^[2] which are located in present day India & Pakistan had flush toilets attached to a sophisticated sewage system^[3]—and other forms of toilets were used both in the time of the Romans and Egyptians as well.^[4] Although a precursor to the modern flush toilet system was designed in 1596 by John Harington,^[5] the toilet did not enter into widespread use until the late nineteenth century, when it was adopted in English upper class residences.^[6]

More on The Anchoress here.

I don’t know what I like better – the fact that the background music, Fanfare for the Common Man, was written by a gay guy, or the barely contained rage in that douchebag’s voice.

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Serolf Divad’s comment got me thinking about the various sources of wingnut welfare, and that made me think back to one of my favorite wingnuts, Brigitte Gabriel.  She’s not much of a wingnut – no “fellowship” at AEI or Hudson – but she’s all over Fox News and writes for The American Thinker.  Bulk purchases of her books by conservative organizations likely contribute to her wingnut welfare total. 

I thought I’d repost a little something I wrote about her back in June 2006.  Vintage wingnuttery, if you will. After the jump you’ll see why she’s so special to me.

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I was going to post on Stormy, or the latest Carrie Prejean tantrum, but then Agi sent me something that earned the writer our Wingnut of the Day award.

This is Heather MacDonald. She is a John M. Olin fellow at the Manhattan Institute and contributing editor to something called City Journal. For those of you that don’t know, John M. Olin was a rich wingnut who funded a bunch of think tanks to pay lesser wingnuts – aka “fellows” – to write things that no sane person would pay them to write.  That, by the way, is more or less the definition of wingnut welfare.

Stand back – it gets ugly pretty fast:

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