The music on her announcement is not my cup of tea, but how can one fail to be impressed by her in this announcement?

And come back soon, Rep. Giffords. Arizona (or at least Arizona Stinquer Jamie Sommers) deserves sane political leaders.

Title: “Ameritopia: The Unmaking of America”

Author: Mark Levin

Rank: 2

Blurb: “What is this utopian force that both allures a free people and destroys them? In the end, Levin’s message is clear: The American republic is in great peril. The people must now choose between utopianism or liberty.”

Review: “Seems to have been written for elite intellectual conservatives… and when I saw the second chapter coming up ‘Plato’s Republic and the Perfect Society’, I knew it was time to bail.”

Customers Also Bought: “Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010” by Charles Murray

Footnote: So much for “Shining City on a Hill”.

Ameritopia [Amazon]

Buy or Die [Stinque@Amazon Kickback Link]

This exists. No, really. Swear to God. Direct from his website. We are so not worthy.

Rick Santorum for President [via @KeithOlbermann]

When new evidence confirms that he was framed, reporter Harry Barber (Woody Harrelson) is released from prison after serving two years. He then goes on to demonstrate repeatedly that he is the dumbest, most masochistic noir hero since Adam ate the apple. His original plan, to leave Palmetto, is foiled when he runs into his girlfriend Nina (Gina Gershon), a successful sculptor who truly loves him. Unfortunately, he also runs into Rhea Malroux (Elisabeth Shue), a conniving femme fatale and wife of a dying millionaire, who offers him $50,000 for a small part in a phony kidnapping of her stepdaughter Odette (Chloe Sevigny). Feeling that he is owed something for his lost two years, and blinded by Rhea’s sexuality, Harry agrees to participate even after he realizes he was set up from the very beginning. Complicating matters for himself, he also accepts an offer from the DA to serve as press liaison on the case. As the kidnapping careens out of control, Harry’s involvement follows the same trajectory. His downfall is that he thinks he’s clever, but his ability to think rationally is compromised from the start and worsens fro—

Whoa, whoa, whoa. That’s a blurb for the movie Palmetto, not the opening for our South Carolina GOP Primary Open Thread/Film Blanc. But if Newt is Woody, and Mitt, Frothy Mix and Dr. Evol are Gina, Elisabeth and Chloe, it just might work.

Here in Manhattan, and in Wisconsin where I spent one horrible winter, it’s called a “snow storm”. In Seattle, it’s called a “snow event”. And these guys, one in an Audi R8 and one in my wet dream car, the Nissan GT-R, are morons for taking two sports cars with sports tires on out in what appears to be six inches of snow.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ntDYjS0Y3w

We are very, very drunk. Had we been sober, we probably would have posted this.

[via Sully]

Must have been, because this recording of the two parts of the William Tell Overture that count were done with an orchestra twice the size of the one Rossini would have used, but hey … it works: