Gupta will reportedly turn down Surgeon General post [Think Progress]

Can’t concentrate today, so I’ll just post a bunch of stupid shit, and you can take your pick.

1) Another day, another wingnut:

Did you ever wish there were a Christian version of kosher salt? I thought not. But apparently a retired barber, Joe Godlewski, did.

Godlewski, who lives in western Maryland, has named his new product Blessed Christian Salt. It went on the market this week.

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Oh shit, we got completely caught up chasing stories about our old student newspaper yesterday, and completely forgot to chase stories about our old favorite scourge, who made his reputation introducing a generation of American children to the mystery and wonder of Presidential splooge.

Yes, Ken Starr is back on stage, and once again he’s arguing against people who get more in a week than he does in a year. He’s out to prevent subverting the will of 52 percent of voters, we’re told, usually by folks quite busy trying to subvert the will of 52 percent of voters themselves.

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You’re shitting me:

Sen. David Vitter (R-LA), whose career became mired in the D.C. Madam prostitution scandal back in 2007, and is now headed into his 2010 re-election campaign, is championing the cause of family values in the omnibus bill, and the need to stop government spending on family planning. Really.

That’s the same David Vitter who did the following:

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Barking-mad psychofascist hatecaster Rush Limbaugh is so repulsive, so vile and so twisted – literally the spawn of Roseanne Barr and the monster from the movie Alien that emerged from Barr’s asshole after the creature raped her ass in a parking lot in Camden, NJ in 1952 – that some 81% of Republicans wretch themselves to gagging dry heaves even thinking about the guy, according to a recent independent poll by Rasmussen Reports.

According to a Rasmussen Reports telephone poll, fully 81% of self-identified Republicans rejected the notion that immense, brain damaged fucktard and alleged pederast Limbaugh is the leader of the Republican Party.

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Speaking of that WIN button, this is what brought it to mind.

Emblems to Stamp Projects Funded by the Stimulus Package [ABC]

You’ll forgive our financial ignorance, but after we blew our inheritance on Tulip Futures, we’ve limited our investing to losing quarters in the couch, knowing they’ll remain safe until we need them.

But with headlines screaming DOW 40,000 7,000, we’re starting to wonder what the fuss is about. Haven’t we been hearing for years about inflated stock (and housing) prices? And if they’re inflated, doesn’t that suggest that someone needs to take some air out of the tires?

Unless, of course, you’ve been leveraging everything on a bet that stocks will be even more inflated. In which case that Red Button is looking more like a whoopie cushion.

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