Geez, we need some filler here to pretend we’re doing something other than marking time before getting to the link. There’s “beats as it sweeps as it cleans,” of course. Or the line about a resident reporting “suspicious activity at a car wash”. Maybe speculation about what George Jetson does with Rosie the Robot when Jane’s away. (Jane! Stop this crazy thing! Jane! Hellllllp!)

Well, fuck it. Sometimes you just can’t compete with the source.

Mich. man pleads no contest in vacuum sex act case [AP]

Bobby Jindal admits he made up the Katrina story he told during his response to President Obama’s speech.

I thought Catholics weren’t allowed to lie ….

Jindal Admits Katrina Story Was False [TPM]

Conservatives, sociopaths, and other GOP criminals are currently attending CPAC.  NPR tells me that anybody interested in the 2012 Republican preznit nod speaks there as a matter of course.  Yesterday it was Fuckabee . Today it’s Mittens and some other shitbag whose name I forgot. Joe the Plumber is, of course, holding court and spouting the usual shit.

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Before everyone got caught up comparing Bobby Jindal to Kenneth the Page (which leaves Michael Steele or Alan Keyes available to Tracy Morgan), his post-not-SOTU remark about “$140 million for something called ‘volcano monitoring'” was poised to become Wacky Soundbite of the Night.

As a governor whose state fell victim to Bush incompetence natural disaster, his comment was sure to raise eyebrows. (Never mind that Jindal also said his state would be better off without Bush incompetence government assistance in a crisis — we don’t have enough eyebrows for that.)

And since the only volcano in the news lately threatens the home state of Jindal’s rival for 2012 buffoon the next GOP nomination, easy jokes were at hand, if only they hadn’t been drowned out by easier jokes.

But apparently Alaskans aren’t big 30 Rock fans, since they’re not letting the matter drop.

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Gawker Media presents the Croatian Edition of Jzbl.

Prommie’s Wild Ride [Jezebel, “disemvoweled”]

Prommie wins Worst Comment of the Day [Jezebel]

Jamie Sommers: “Yep.” [Stinque]

The Heart and Soul of the 21st Century GOP: Neonazis, Snakehandlers, Psychopathic Theocrats and Neomedievalists! A Party for the Totally Fucked!

The GOP’s monstrous miscalculation in courting snakehandlers, neonazies and neomedievalists over the last 30 years is coming home to roost with rising cadres of the twisted, disenfranchised outcasts forming up into massive, ultraviolent Adkisson Brigades, a raging stormfront of barking madness, hate and unquenchable racist fury, a recent report has found.

The Southern Poverty Law Center released a report this week that found neonazi outfits has grown by more than 54 percent in the last eight years, whipped into face-biting frenzies, no doubt, by declining economies in the American heartland as well as the right wing media and hatecaster community’s frenzied fear mongering and veiled white power booyahs on behalf of the Republican Party.

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Report sharply criticizes sex education in Texas schools [Fort Worth Star-Telegram]