Mittster…. dude… you’re fucking this up. Michele Bachmann is your ticket. It will totally work this time around.

Woo-hoo, Record Store Day! I’ll be lined up when our local store opens; lots of good stuff this time around.

While we’re strolling along the memory lane of blogging, y’know who I miss? Billmon. It’s been 2 years since his last diary at Kos, so I guess he’s really gone this time? One of these days, I need to download the Billmon archive and find his post from the days after Katrina. Heart-wrenching and beautifully written, it made you wonder: who IS this guy?

Congrats to Atrios, and thanks to Tbogg for keeping this place going.

Sorry, but Mark Judge’s Mandingo Warriors Swiped My Motobecane is still the reigning champ. His piece is the very essence of Poe’s Law.

Shapiro and Pollak look like evil, stupid versions of Bert and Ernie.

I’m getting more of a Beavis and Butthead vibe.

I caught a few minutes of Hannity’s radio show yesterday. He had J. Mattera on, and in his best heh-chuckle manner, Hannity was basically saying “Just what kind of a dumbfuck are you?”

Couric: “…what newspapers and magazines did you regularly read…to stay informed and to understand the world?”

Quiet. Nasty. Quietly nasty.

Fer fuck’s sake, Bill Clinton could riff for 10 minutes on a question like that.

Bless her heart.

Are there no campaign advisers? Are there no PR flacks?

Running for president: ur doin’ it rong.

“Hey, where’s my super-shouty Drudge headline?!?!” Andrew Breitbart (still dead)

Ouch.

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Commence with the snark.

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Her modesty and valor precludes her from accepting the offerings of her adoring public.

A Facebook friend recently posted some variety of “Obama is a Kenyan/Socialist/Muslim/Trying to destroy the country/whatever”. When I took her to task, she, in a butthurt tone, replied:

I didn’t claim it was true. I just wanted to know what people thought of it.

Modern conservative “thought” in a nutshell.

But keeping America’s edge came at a cost. Our economy became more efficient, but also more ruthless and Darwinian. Our G.D.P. kept rising, but the new wealth was less evenly distributed. The revolution delivered growth, but at the expense of stability and certainty.

Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was your evening?

This thread is like a primate having sexual activity with an oblong recreational device.

Palin/Bachmann 2012: Mayan Boogaloo! The bumper stickers write themselves.

Tina Weymouth? I’m so there.

The Talking Heads’ film “Stop Making Sense” convinced me that Weymouth is about as deadly cool as it gets.

I’ve veered off from fiction and tried out some history. Specifically Tom Levenson’s “Einstein in Berlin” (Tom is an occasional frontpager at Balloon Juice), and John Berry’s “Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927″. Both are of the “overview of an era, through the lens of” genre, and both have the page-turner quality of good fiction.

The moment that Obama instructs the Justice Department to look into civil rights violations at the occupy events, the Mighty Wurlitzer will immediately trumpet that Obama has sided with the rabble against the police, all of whom were heroic at the Twin Towers 9/11! 9/11! 9/11! Then you’ll get Fox headlines about the Anarchist in Chief which the other networks will pick up passively as “Is President Obama an anarchist at heart? Views differ…”

I don’t wander the fever swamps as much as you, but I’m already hearing pretty much this exact message, so what’s there to lose?

Most of the time the Blame Obama crap over here is just painfully dumb and completely misguided. This time…. not so much. We’re witnessing the largest protest movement in 40 years (correct?). I’d like to hear something more than lawylerly weasel-speak.

I know exactly one Nickelback song, “Burn It To The Ground”, and I have to admit it’s a guilty pleasure. It also does a fine job of capturing the wingnut Zeitgeist:

We’ve got no fear, no doubt, all in balls out….
We’re screaming like demons, swinging from the ceiling….
We got no class, no taste, no shirt, and shit faced….

We’re going till the world stops turning
While we burn it to the ground tonight

Eric Cantor probably plays Naked Air Guitar to this song.

You’re welcome…

And if Obama breaks his “deafening silence” and does the right thing, I’m sure we expect all the Outrage Junkies to stop back by and admit you’re assholes, right?

If POTUS fucks it up, then we’ll have that conversation. Until then, please browse the bassett archives and chill the fuck out. Or just leave. Either way.

“Once Upon A Time In The West” just demands to be played at 11 (which I’m doing as I write this).

Nice one, Tbogg.