While we’re enjoying Retweet Monday, please pleasure yourself with this selection of Actual Discoveries Regarding a Recently Rereleased Blockbuster Movie. And offer @boring_as_heck mad props for curating America’s Idiocy.

BREAKING OMG NEWS FROM CNN!!!!

Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, who has long been an outspoken critic of President Barack Obama, used scathing language in a tweet Saturday to condemn the president’s remarks about the Supreme Court last week.

Scathing! Language! Why that’s… that’s… that’s Outrageous!

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Back in the Nineties, while we were still living in Oregon, we had occasion to visit Los Angeles for a publishing conference. We borrowed Dad’s van for the trip south — unlike our Chevette, it had air conditioning — and stayed with a friend an hour east of the conference’s downtown location.

The van, alas, was not as roadworthy as we expected. One weekday afternoon, crawling back to our friend’s place on a Great Big Freeway during rush hour, the van began to stall. It wasn’t completely dead, but the slow speeds were killing it. We would pull over, wait five or ten minutes, and try again.

It was during one of those punctuated stops, on an elevated stretch of road, that we noticed the exit sign:

EAST L.A.

Oh, shit, we thought. This is the last place we want to be stuck with a stalled van.

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These photos are just heartbreaking:

For everyone who might need a break from the asshattery that seems to be too prevalent these days.

Puppeh! Wearing rabbit ears!

Shelley Oh! and Bo hanging out with soldiers and their families at Walter Reed:

And this year Bo has his own egg for tomorrow’s Easter Egg Roll.

But no worries – the wingnut welfare system will take care of him … “The National Review has fired columnist John Derbyshire after a racially charged article he wrote on another website. In a Saturday evening post titled ”Parting Ways,” the magazine’s editor Rich Lowry starts off praising Derbyshire’s writing skills and proceeds to explain his decision….” [TPM]

His interview of Frank Lloyd Wright was outstanding (happened before I was born).

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