https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3BGkOKVMUU

We imagine we’re supposed to be impressed by 1) Sliding into a parking spot with less than six inches to spare, 2) Japanese drivers subverting the stereotype, and 3) Minis being good for something besides subway chases. But it strikes us that if you’re going to declare a world record for “parallel parking”, one of the conditions needs to be that you’re free to leave.

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NASA imagines Earth’s night sky four beeeeeelion years from now, when Andromeda Strains comes crashing into the Milky Way. If it’s any solace, by then we’ll all be fried to a crisp by the Sun anyway.

NASA Predicts Our Galaxy Will Collide With Another In 4 Billion Years [TPM]

“Jay Townsend, a campaign spokesman for Republican Rep. Nan Hayworth (NY-19), weighed in on a local Facebook discussion with a violent comment about Democratic women in Congress, and his suggestion is now earning the congresswoman condemnation from one of her Democratic challengers…. ‘Let’s hurl some acid at those female democratic Senators who won’t abide the mandates they want to impose on the private sector.'” [TPM]

“John Edwards is off the legal hook: jurors found him not guilty Thursday on one of six charges of campaign finance fraud, and declared themselves hopelessly deadlocked on the rest. Judge Catherine Eagles had asked the jurors earlier in the day to keep trying for a verdict, but they returned within the hour to say it was impossible.” [NYDN]

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Okay, we think we’re done playing with InstaMitt. There are only so many Ironic Juxtapositions in the universe.

Amercian Graffiti [stinque@flickr]

So, with Rush Limbaugh insisting that any woman who would like to see her health insurance include contraceptive coverage is a prostitute, the state of Virginia legislating forcible sodomy for any woman who would seek an abortion, and GOP candidates seeking to ban contraception altogether, conservative bloggers have been working harder than ever to do what they do best: draw false equivalences to argue that “the other side does it, too… and they’re just as bad.”

And yet, like a student who read the Cliff notes version of women’s lib rather than the actual text, right-wing bloggers continue to show that they just don’t get it. The latest pathetic example of false equivalence comes from Slate managing editor, conservative columnist Rachel Larimore. In a rather lame attempt to draw parallels between Limbaugh, Santorum, the state of Virginia, et al and the Left, Larimore draws our attention to two incidents that supposedly prove that Liberals are just as prone to misogyny as Conservatives:

With two incidents that were reported yesterday, the left is showing that it’s just fine with misogyny and violence against women as long as the women in question aren’t card-carrying liberal feminists. As David Weigel mentioned on his Slate blog, Donna Dewitt, the outgoing president of AFL-CIO South Carolina, bashed a piñata bearing a photograph of Gov. Nikki Haley, while men and women in the crowd shouted “Whack her harder” and “hit her again.” Dewitt continues to smack the piñata long after it’s knocked down, which is a nice touch.

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