Our guest columnist this afternoon is Ryan J. Murdoch of Ashland, New Hampshire.

I am running as a candidate for state representative in Grafton County District 8. I am running as a Republican, but I have been endorsed by the American Third Position. I am also the American Third Position state chairman of New Hampshire. The American Third Position is a political party that stands for the interests of white Americans.

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Longtime New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner died this morning. He owned the Yankees since 1973.

Crackpot “plans on raising over eight million dollars for the 9-11 Christian Center at Ground Zero”:

“I watched in disbelief… as they announced the Muslims would be building a $110 million mosque just a few blocks from where their Muslim brothers perpetrated the greatest act of terror on U.S. soil in history,” writes [Bill] Keller on the Christian Center’s official website. “After I got over being angry, I got on my knees in prayer. I knew God was calling me to do something, but what?”

• Swallow.
• Turn toward Mecca like you’re supposed to.
• Declare that Paul the Octopus is the Antichrist.

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I would have done the same:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXrQ_GoMMt4

There’s more ugly news out there if you’re not yet sufficiently bummed, but Sandy Eggo is enjoying its first sunny day in more than a week (we’re deducting the overcast from the rent), and damn if we’re gonna let the happy-happy-joy-joy get away from us:

Today is the 50th anniversary of the Etch A Sketch. It was invented in the late 1950s by André Cassagnes, a Frenchman, who named it L’Ecran Magique (the magic screen). The Ohio Art Company bought the toy in 1959, renamed it Etch A Sketch, and launched it onto the American market on July 12, 1960.

That’s right: The Etch A Sketch is French. We’re calling it a Freedom Scribbler from now on.

Etch A Sketch turns 50: amazing art created with the drawing toy [Telegraph UK, via PourMeCoffee]

Image: Salvador’s Deli by Jeff Gagliardi

“A 37-year-old man shot and killed five individuals as well as injured four others in a mass shooting at a Southeast Albuquerque business late Monday morning, according to police… The shooter had a self-inflicted gunshot wound.” [KRQE]

Cleveland comic book author Harvey Pekar dead at 70 [Chronicle-Telegram, via Weigel]

Cleveland comic-book legend Harvey Pekar dead at age 70 [Cleveland Plain Dealer, via Tom Tomorrow]