Our guest colloquists are the host of a Green Bay radio station and the daughter-in-law of a former Michigan governor recently called a “clown”.

WBAL: “One of the things, Ann Romney, that folks talk about with your husband, Mitt Romney, and I’ve seen him in casual conversation — he comes off very smooth and okay. But sometimes he comes off stiff. Do you have to fight back some criticism, like ‘My husband isn’t stiff, OK?'”

ANN ROMNEY: “Well, you know, I guess we better unzip him and let the real Mitt Romney out, because he is not!”

Ann Romney Says Campaign Will ‘Unzip’ the Real Mitt [ABC]

The Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism — so confident of itself that it goes by Journalism.org — dropped this jewel Friday on an unwitting Internet:

Moreover, the [Trayvon] Martin story has been a much bigger story on MSNBC, whose talk show hosts are liberal, and a much smaller story on Fox, whose prime time lineup leans conservative.

Whatever it was that the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism planned on telling us after that, we quickly lost interest. Mainly because of our sudden alarm that the staff of the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism has been abducted by aliens and replaced with sentient vegetables.

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Wherein I make Julia Child’s piperade in my tiny kitchen and TAPE IT using the Hero 2 camera we got last week:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBdLKjx8iHc

And because I don’t know how to pause, and we don’t yet have Final Cut Pro, this thing is a series of videos, not one smooth move:

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Title: “Learn How To Increase Your Chances of Winning The Lottery”

Author: Richard Lustig

Rank: 69

Blurb: “Richard discusses the ins and outs and dos and don’ts of buying lottery tickets to increase your chances of winning. He has created a method that he and members of his family use that has enabled them to WIN several lottery game GRAND prizes.”

Review: “He doesnt have a secret noone can predict how the numbers will fall. DONT WASTE YOUR MONEY. i am getting my money back.”

Customers Also Bought: Twenty-five other lottery books ranging from $4.95 to $24.50.

Footnote: Sell the shovels.

Learn How To Increase Your Chances of Winning The Lottery [Amazon]

Buy or Die [Stinque@Amazon Kickback Link]

Google shows off its self-driving car test with a run to the dry cleaners and Taco Bell by a blind guy in San Jose.  Dude, there are so many awesome taco trucks parked off the Lawrence Expressway and the Guadalupe Parkway, I’m a little embarrassed for you.  Though I suppose they’re not permanent enough for Google maps.

In our never-ending quest to find something to put on the iPad that will amuse the cat we came up with this: something quite mesmerizing.

I strongly recommend you download the hi-def version and watch that.

The first Stinquer who can tell me why I chose this particular picture to accompany this post wins a romantic weekend with noje to experience the Bakersfield Birkenstock Music Festival: Socks Optional! Two days, and nights, of fun and adventure at the glamorous Days Inn.

(No friends or relatives of Stinque or Disney may enter.)

We usually ignore political ads — unless they’re really, really silly — but this entry, from Karl Rove’s Billionaire Boys Club, caught our attention. It’s supposed to frighten us that The Preznident of These United States is selling us out to the Russkies. But every time we watch it, he comes off looking fucking cool. Might be the tux. Or the counterproductive insistence that Barack Obama is really 007.