We’re not sure how we expected to react upon watching “The Scream” being auctioned for $119,922,500. Perhaps we were supposed to be Shocked! that someone could blow 119,922.5 large on a painting. Perhaps we would contemplate the Horror! that it would take us three millennia to earn that kind of scratch. Perhaps we would manifest a Comically Abject Expression of Fear Suitable for a Blockbuster Movie Poster! while listing the worthwhile things $119,922,500 could provide instead.

But you know what caught our attention? The rotating pedestal they used to display it, like something out of a game show. We’re a cheap date.

[via WaPo]

[Telegraph UK]

Just in case you were wondering.

We’re Not Stupid [MittRomney.com, via News Corpse]

Our guest columnist is weird and creepy.

You’ve failed, media.

You’ve had over three years to vet President Barack Obama. Yet in three years in office and over a year of campaigning beforehand, you have either been oddly uninterested or purposefully ignorant of Barack Obama’s educational history. You were, however, quite interested in George Bush’s transcripts.

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“Speaking in Chantilly, Va., at Exhibit Edge, a female-owned firm that designs trade show exhibits and displays, the presumptive Republican nominee was surrounded by women. More than a dozen female business owners and entrepreneurs were invited to sit behind Romney at the event, putting them directly in the camera shot, while dozens of other women were seated in front of him.”

Mitt Romney targets female voters in Virginia [Yahoo]

The fact that it was rear-engined with the weight over the drive (rear) wheels is the only thing that saves it:

[ABC]