I’ve been meaning to post pictures of the True Blood shrine I walk through every weekday morning to get to the S train from the 2/3 line:

Been up since mid-June …

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And here’s the Las Vegas Sun with the play-by-play:

In the warehouse of a family-owned clean diesel manufacturer in Sparks, Angle delivered a three-minute speech on her desire to permanently repeal the estate tax. When invited by the final speaker to stay and answer a few questions, she turned on her heel and rushed out a back door with a small cadre of staff members.

Reporters, including one who is six months pregnant, chased after her, calling out questions on unemployment benefits and other topics she has largely refused to address.

We’d love to say that’s a white Ford Bronco she escaped in, but life doesn’t always meet our narrative requirements.

Sharron Angle addresses media for 3 minutes on taxes then bolts [Las Vegas Sun]

[Video from the Nevada Democratic Party, via TPM]

“Democrats are considering a plan to delay tax hikes on the wealthy for two years because the economic recovery is slow and they fear getting crushed in November’s election. It could mean a big reprieve for families earning $250,000 and above annually.” But Geithner kiboshes the sellout. [The Hill, WSJ]

The website “I Write Like” purports to analyze any text you paste into it, comparing it to any of fifty authors in its database.

With a spam filter.

Okay, it’s slightly more complicated than that. Using the same technique that underlies many spam filters, Dmitry Chestnykh dumped books into his database. If what you submit matches the digital fingerprint of a given author, you win!

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Hey, ever hear of the Tides Foundation? Neither have we!

Okay, fine, some of you have. Everybody who’s an activist — leave the room.

All gone? Good.

Truth be told, we have heard of them, but it’s a name that only crosses our path every two or three years — or only slightly more frequently than we’ve heard “Saul Alinsky” since a boring polisci class some thirty years ago.

Until last year, of course, when wingnuts made “Rules for Radicals” an Amazon bestseller.

So we’ve found it more than a little odd that Byron Williams was heading for the ACLU and the Tides Foundation when he got into a little exchange of Second Amendment Remedies with CHP on the 580 Saturday night. Like, dude, you’re going after a soap company? What’s up with that?

Or, to put it another way: If we, an advanced-degree Left Coast libtard who recently had to drop our NYRB subscription to help pay for our iPad, don’t know our Tides from our Surfrider from our Ducks Unlimited, how the hell is Williams so hip?

Unless — no, wait, let us guess…

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We suppose, to be consistent, we should object to this novel request:

State elections officials narrowly rejected a Milwaukee Assembly candidate’s attempt to run with the slogan “NOT the ‘whiteman’s bitch’ ” under her name on the ballot.

Ieshuh Griffin, a Milwaukee independent running to replace retiring Rep. Annette “Polly” Williams (D-Milwaukee), said in response she would sue the Government Accountability Board for infringing on her freedom of speech.

“I’m not making a derogatory statement toward an ethnic group. I’m stating what I’m not,” Griffin told board members. “It’s my constitutional right to freedom of speech.”

Then again, to be really consistent, we would have to flip the history of the United States on its head.

Board rejects ‘whiteman’ ballot language from Milwaukee candidate [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]

“The people who have been laid off and cannot find work are generally people with poor work habits and poor personalities… As I survey the ranks of those who are unemployed, I see people who have overbearing and unpleasant personalities and/or who do not know how to do a day’s work. They are people who create either little utility or negative utility on the job.” [American Spectator, via ThinkProgress]