The site aggregator Memeorandum is the Blogger’s Friend, doing for commentary what Google does for news. And bless their hearts, they picked up on yesterday’s naughty Chicago Republicans post. Which, mirabile dictu, is still online, complete with plenty of lively responses from the gallery: “With this one photo, the part of No just became the party of Yes, Yes, Yes!”

The Female Century vs The Hetaerae Century & The John Edwards “Affair” [Chicago Republicans, NSFW]

Way back in 2001 — let’s pause here for everyone to consider their advancing age, and why UPS hasn’t yet delivered our jetpacks — one of the debates was whether to handle 9/11 as a crime, or an act of war. We won’t rehearse those arguments here, but suffice to say that we thought then, thought in the years that followed, and continue to think now that the FBI, and not the DoD, was the agency best equipped to respond.

Jumping ahead eight years, we were pleased that both the Fort Hood shooter and the Underwear Bomber were treated as the criminals they are, and not the martyrs they aspired to be. Both were terrorists by definition — motivated by ideology — but regarding them as soldiers would be, in a phrase now thankfully retro, to let the terrorists win.

Yet in the case of a man who links these two examples, we’re doing just that:

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Here’s what you missed if you weren’t paying attention Wednesday night:

1. Breaking news that someone lit a fuse in his shoe during a United flight from D.C. to Denver.

2. Discovery that the shoe-bomber held a diplomatic passport from Qatar.

3. Fighter jets being scrambled to escort the plane, as air marshals subdued the suspect.

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This could have been handled better …

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Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell (R): 1) declared April Confederate History Month in the Old Dominion without bothering to mention slavery; 2) sort of apologized for the omission; and 3) added some language to the declaration acknowledging that maybe slavery hadn’t been such a hot idea. This asshole is the wingnut’s wingnut. [TPM]

At least when you stumble across the Chicago Republicans website, which asks the, um, pertinent question: “How much is enough?”

Answer after the jump. Definitely not safe for work. Or gays.

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No, they’re not changing the rules, just spawning a demon: “Mattel, which owns the rights to Scrabble in England, is going to release a completely new version of the game there called Scrabble Trickster, in which anything goes, including the use of proper nouns, spelling words backwards, stealing letters, and so on.” [CNet]