The Washington Post reported today that “Niggerhead” was the name of Rick Perry’s family hunting camp and ranch in West Texas. The word was also painted in three-foot high block letters spread across a 5 foot wide rock at the entrance to the ranch.  The word has now been painted over in white paint and the rock has been turned over.

Ranchers who once grazed cattle on the 1,070-acre parcel on the Clear Fork of the Brazos River called it by that name well before Perry and his father, Ray, began hunting there in the early 1980s. There is no definitive account of when the rock first appeared on the property. …But the name of this particular parcel did not change for years after it became associated with Rick Perry, first as a private citizen, then as a state official and finally as Texas governor. Some locals still call it that.

Herman Cain is pissed. Unclear if Cain is surprised.

[WaPo: Rick Perry Family’s Hunting Camp Still Known By Racially Charged Name]

[LAT: Herman Cain: Name Shows Insensitivity]

Yes, I know, this is Anne Hathaway’s stunt double smashing an expensive IMAX camera, but does the casting choice for Catwoman/Selina Kyle trouble anyone? The nerd in me is nervous.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WidV5ypIcd8

Title: “Brandwashed: Tricks Companies Use to Manipulate Our Minds and Persuade Us to Buy”

Author: Martin Lindstrom

Rank: 98

Blurb: “Marketing visionary Martin Lindstrom has been on the front lines of the branding wars for over twenty years. Here, he turns the spotlight on his own industry, drawing on all he has witnessed behind closed doors, exposing for the first time the full extent of the psychological tricks and traps that companies devise to win our hard-earned dollars.”

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Gov Sandwiches staggers around like the pathetic, glucose-drunken halfwit he is at his kid's baseball game, after being ferried there on a state helicopter and being driven the last 2 feet with a state car while his wife holds out a box of lard for him to slobber down, one of 50 he consumes each hour.

The cynics in the national political commentariate love to chuckle behind their cuffs at the titanic expanse of New Jersey Governor Chris Christie’s sprawling physical girth, variously jeering at him for morbid obesity that could take his life at any moment and condemning him as simply too pathetic a fat fuck to ever be considered electable in a run for the White House.

The cat calls and guffaws even inspired the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance (NAAFA) to lurch to the defense of the immensely fat fascist psychopath, recently condemning any discussion of Christie’s monstrous dimensions as simply a distraction from his alleged achievements, like being a pawn in the Caligutard’s Justice Department, a twisted ministry whose claim to fame was approving torture so the CIA could legally make porno tapes Vice President and Vampire in Residence Dick Cheney could view while masturbating.

Critics and proponents, however, are sadly missing the real case for a Chris Christie GOP nomination and run for the White House.

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Occupy Wall Street scores again: “A crowd of more than 2,000 people marched up Broadway, past a closed City Hall Park, under the arch of the Municipal Building and massed outside what some mistakenly thought was NYPD headquarters. But most of the chanting horde plopped down in front of One St. Andrew’s Plaza, which houses the U.S. Attorney’s Office, not the NYPD.” [Daily News]

Is Chris Christie too fat to be president? [Yahoo]