Title: “Right Now: A 12-Step Program For Defeating The Obama Agenda”

Author: Michael Steele; foreword by Newt Gingrich

Rank: 403

Blurb: “Setting aside appeals for caution in taking on a popular president, Steele throws down the gauntlet, insisting Republicans must expose and refute the policies lying at the heart of this administration’s attempts to resurrect a discredited brand of extreme liberalism.”

Review: “Steele’s book not only changed the way I look at politics, it changed that way I look at facts.”

Customers Also Bought: “Courage and Consequence,” by Karl Rove

Footnote: A week of headline publicity (never mind the previous year), and he can’t even crack the Amazon Top 400? Although we’ll give him this: We were expecting four digits, not three.

Right Now [Amazon]

Buy or Die [Stinque@Amazon kickback link]

4:27 p.m. PT, 26 miles off Eureka.

Let’s get you started with the USGS Earthquake Map, which every Californian should have bookmarked.

LA Times, 5 p.m.:

Sandra Hall, owner of Antiques and Goodies in Eureka, said the quake moved her shop in all directions.

Her store is now littered with broken lamps, dishes, and wardrobe items. She said there were at least four people in her store when the quake struck. A couple managed to run out of the store’s main entrance, while two women took cover under a table.

“We’ve been through a lot of earthquakes but I can’t recall there ever being any this bad,” Hall said.

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Make them, that is, against the wonderful cartoonist Mark Fiore:

The death threats keep coming this fine morning.  I guess the Tea Party crew is determined to have “death panels” one way or another.  The dustup started because of this cartoon:

And what caused the orcs of the right to rise up and threaten the ringbearer?

NPR ran the cartoon, the orcs found it, and you know the rest.

Art Clokey dies at 88; creator of Gumby [LAT]

Jonathan Bonk, director of the Overseas Ministries Study Center in Connecticut, is tired of the hypocrisy of Americans claiming Christian beliefs:

“What relational, social, ethical difference does it make, in a continent filled with the savagery of wars, rape, corruption, despotic leaders (many of whom call themselves ‘Christian’)? Is there any evidence that Christian conversion is making a difference? Such questions need to be asked, in view of what Jesus himself describes in his judgment day scenario when he separates the sheep from the goats,” he said.

We can’t agree with Bonk more, and look forward to the day when—

Hold on. He’s talking about Africa. Never mind.

Africa’s ‘Christian’ population on rise [WND]

Like fine wines, some stories are best savored rather than consumed. This is one of those stories:

The elusive erogenous zone said to exist in some women may be a myth, say researchers who have hunted for it.

Now, stop right there. Pause. Sip. Enjoy. It’s the lost episode of Mythbusters or Man vs. Wild, as intrepid explorers go hunting for their elusive prey. And we don’t care whether Woody Allen got there first almost two generations ago. The time is now.

Ready? Let’s continue:

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Senility, or straight up lying?  You be the judge:

Appearing today on Laura Ingraham’s radio show, RNC chairman Michael Steele said that he wrote his book Right Now before he became chairman. The problem is, the book itself doesn’t read like it could have possibly been written before January 2009 — it was clearly written in late 2009, either in November or December, and is based entirely on current events up to that point.

“I wrote this book before I became chairman. Because of the clock and the calendar, I wound up doing it now,” said Steele.

This is epic lying.

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