Conservative psychoses (ie. http://bit.ly/q8E3r) result in another brutal murder : http://bit.ly/TNXeA Foreseeable and tragically avoidable

Y’know that hilarious Protect Insurance Companies video that every other person was posting on Facebook yesterday? Well, prepare yourself to take back those chuckles because Jim Geraghty at the National Review (with an approving link from Andrew Sullivan) has an epic takedown of the fake-PSA :

Because $10 a Head To Watch ‘Land of the Lost’ Wasn’t Greed

The greed of health insurance company executives is the topic of satire in this video from Will Ferrell, who is by some accounts the highest paid star in Hollywood; Forbes said this year he was merely the 20th highest paid actor in Hollywood.
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Get it? If you’ve made a lot of money pumping out absurdist comedies, then you’re a hypocrite for even suggesting that letting insurance companies profit off the deaths of their customers is a bad thing. This kind of argument is simplistic and ridiculous. It’s like saying “Michael Pollan doesn’t want people to eat junk food, but he eats three meals every single day.”

Limbaugh & Beck are a former sportscaster & Top 40 DJ respectively. Looks like talking for hours without saying anything was good practice.

Anti-ACORN bill could “defund the entire military-industrial complex”. That’s a nice trade-off. Any other bright ideas? http://bit.ly/Jid3x

If this Kids in the Hall sketch epitomizes Glenn Beck (http://bit.ly/Y8ush) then this sketch is his other half : http://bit.ly/RmTrY

If this Kids in the Hall sketch epitomizes Glenn Beck (http://bit.ly/Y8ush) then this sketch is his other half : http://bit.ly/RmTrY

I wonder if Tom Delay has figured out a way to gerrymander “Dancing with the Stars” yet.

I wish Smart Cars had cheeks so I could pinch them.

The guys on Fox keep referring to Manny as “Man Ram”. Sounds more like something dirty and/or one of Skeletor’s henchmen.

Is it “Talk Like An 18th Century Seafaring Murderer Day” already? Now I have another reason to avoid people with a parrot on their shoulder.

The Constitution doesn’t say anything about iPods, so what gives them the right to tax my purchases from the Apple Store? Tyranny!!

I have a feeling Kafka’s writing would be a lot more lively if his work also had bagel day.

Tim Gunn is at the LA Times! I hope it’s a “try to find a viable business model for a dying industry” challenge.

We really live in a golden age for race-baiting. Back in the day, there was a spectrum of racism of sorts. You knew something racist fell somewhere between Al Jolson in blackface, zip-a-de-doo-dah racism and the move your wallet to your front pocket because you see a black guy walking down the street racism. It was a simpler time.

In the last two years, however, Republicans have been so angry they’ve had to invent new ways to be racist. No longer can we judge racist sentiment simply by its degree of offensiveness. Now there are multiple varieties of racism which have become almost like an ingredient the cupboard of conservative hate speech that’s used to flavor every utterance the way a great Italian chef might finish off a dish with a drizzle of their finest extra virgin olive oil.

You’ve got the birther crowd with their “Faked the moon landing” racism. The Fox News saying Michelle is Barack’s “Baby Mamma” which is more of an “Oh my god, you’ve never really met a black person before have you?” racism. The “Fiscal conservative” / Tea Party “Complain about high taxes while comparing the President to a monkey” racism. The Matt Drudge “Ominously link to a story that incidentally involves people of different races as if to imply there’s racial backlash against caucasians” racism. And the religious extremist “Don’t blame me if the Bible says Obama is the anti-Christ” racism.

Then there’s Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck, who are like the Thomas Edison and Nicola Tesla of racist bullshit. These guys aren’t just content to be the “Telling a racist joke, but it’s cool because everyone knows I’m not racist” guys. Oh no. They’re innovators. They went out there, saw that America elected a black guy, and said “The old ways being a racist asshole aren’t good enough”.  In the process they’ve erected multimedia empires, doing for the “Aggrieved white guy cries reverse-discrimination” racism what Henry Ford did for auto manufacturing (or, not to change the subject, anti-semitism).

Now if the right wing’s artisans of racial hatred could only devote this uniquely American spirit of ingenuity into endeavors that don’t…well…threaten to destroy the social and political fabric of our nation, then we might get somewhere.

Five ways the Baucus bill sucks : http://is.gd/3m4c2, Five ways to make it better : http://bit.ly/5c5W0 RT @rjeskow @ezraklein