The state politics correspondent for Rupert Murdoch-owned New York Post today got in a kerfuffle with teabagger Republican/lover of equine-ass fucking/candidate for Governor of the Empire State Carl Paladino.

The irony of a reporter for the conservative rag being called “a bird dog” for Andrew Cuomo was bad enough, but the three minutes of video shot at some random and sad upstate motel lobby is just pathetic. Keep waving those dicks, white men! Nobody gives a shit and the rest of us gotta find a job.

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Why is Crain’s sponsoring an appearance by this racist asshole?

Bonnie and Clyde director Arthur Penn dies aged 88 [BBC]

“Some executions in the US are being delayed because of a nationwide shortage of sodium thiopental, one of the drugs used in lethal injections… Officials in California are pressing for its first execution in over four years to go ahead on Thursday evening as scheduled, because the state’s last remaining batch of sodium thiopental expires on Friday.” [BBC]

Fox News comes late to the party with a story about Todd Henderson, the U. Of Chicago corporate law professor who recently opened up to the world on the trials and travails of an average American family struglling to get by on a mere $400,000.00 per annum (we covered it some time ago). As you might expect, the Fox News profile is gentler on the good professor than most such stories, quoting experts who note that:

“Any time you want to take away a sizable chunk of people’s money, it has a big impact.”

and wrapping up with this bit of wisdom:

“But the bottom line… is that no one wants to pay more taxes.” 

More interesting than Fox’s predictable take, perhaps is the reaction from Fox News commenters, many of whom, for some odd reason, assume that this professor of corporate law must be a Democrat. So for your edification, words of wisdom from a few choice Fox News commenters: Read more »

In honor of the press conference of eMeg’s Latina former housekeeper that Gloria Allred is hosting today at 11 am PDT, here’s your “What Else Can You Buy for $119 Million” open thread, not to be confused with Stinque’s previous “$22,140.75 an Hour” thread.

[Ed. Note: Thread may be updated with whatever are the actual “explosive” allegations against NutMeg Whitman]

2,725,968 new dictionaries for an elementary school on an Indian reservation in Montana ($6.97 per dictionary)

or 76,381 microscopes for a high school on an Indian reservation in Utah ($248.75 per microscope)

Picasso’s Garçon à la pipe painting. (Tip: MellBell)

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Our guest columnist has a better imagination than we do.

Equipment needed

a. Video

1. hidden cams on the boat
2. tripod and overt recorder near the bed, an obvious sex tape machine

b. Props

1. condom jar
2. dildos
3. Music
   a. Alicia keys
   b. 80s romance songs, things that are typically James
   c. avoid Marvin Gaye as too cliche
4. lube
5. ceiling mirror
6. posters and paintings of naked women
7. playboys and pornographic magazines
8. candles
9. Viagra and stamina pills
10. fuzzy handcuffs
11. blindfold

c. if CNN gets advance warning

If CNN gets advance warning and you find this out, you should simply cancel the operation, period.

Fake pimp from ACORN videos tries to ‘punk’ CNN correspondent [CNN]