“J.D. Shapiro, the dude who wrote Battlefield Earth, issued a two-page formal apology for contributing to the barley-covered shit bomb that is L. Ron Hubbard’s Ishtar! While Battlefield Earth is Xenu’s favorite circle jerk porn, most of us had to eat every kind of anti-depressant on the market to get through the first hour. J.D. blames it all on his penis.” [D-Listed]

Here is how ladies around the globe talk about their time of the month. Dissing other countries and referencing food seem to top the list. Also, Japan just officially became one giant Hello Kitty store. Read more »

“A 33-year-old Philadelphia man was charged today with threatening to kill Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA) in a profanity-strewn YouTube video that has since been pulled down.” [TPM]

RNC spends $1,946.25 at “Voyeur West Hollywood, a bondage-themed nightclub featuring topless women dancers imitating lesbian sex.” [Daily Caller, via ThinkProgress]

WorldNetDaily is out with its monthly Freedom Index, which measures — well, we’re not sure what it measures, but it’s at 46.7, dangerously close to its December low of 46.4, which makes us afraid for some vague reason.

We must be afraid, because WND tells us that “Democrats rammed through a bill that essentially nationalizes health care,” which certainly sounds bad, especially since they didn’t. So when that automated pollster rings our phone, we’ll be sure to express our WND-fueled fear in the strongest possible terms.

Although since one of the questions asks about the government spying on us, perhaps we should hang up.

But it’s another question that interests us:

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All of Mariah Carey’s dreams have come true, now that four types of Hello Kitty wine are set to hit the market. For who knows drinks better than a tiny cat without a mouth, eh? [Jezebel]

So the what do you do when you’re a political party, so bereft of ideas, competence and shame that the only people who still come out to support your efforts at reclaiming political power are a pack of gun crazy, racist John Birch conspiracy crazies? What do you do when you’re trying to gain the support of ordinary, middle-of-the-road, citizens even as your most fervent supporters are mobbing the streets of our nation’s capital hurling racist insults at African American politicians and spitting on congressmen as they head to the capital?

Well, based on what’s beginning to emerge from today’s political shows, it would seem that the GOP and its mouthpieces have settled on a simple strategy: deny, deny, deny. If the incident in question was not captured on tape, then simply deny it ever happened. Read more »