When Jerry Brown wakes up from his nap, can someone remind him he’s running for governor?

Conservatives want to tell Mexicans where to live, Muslims where to pray, and gays where to work because they believe in limited government.

Bravo’s new show is awfully similar to an idea I posted a few years ago :

If Bravo insists on beating the Project Runway formula to death, I hope they do a series set in the fine arts world next. I’d love to see painters struggle with a sculpture challenge. Or see some jerk-off insist that they don’t have to have any technique because their work is “conceptual”. Or a challenge that takes everyone to the Crayola factory. Or one in which they have to paint something that’s meaningful to them, only to find out the real challenge is to see who can sell the most t-shirts of their painting. Or a commercial illustration challenge in which the contestants have to redesign a corporate logo or redesign the packaging for some product they find abhorrent. Get a dozen pretentious assholes together like that and you know it’s gonna be a good show. The winner gets a gallery show and a feature in Juxtapoz magazine, the loser has to pack his brushes and go.

I’m happy to say that Work of Art is as awesome as I predicted. It perfectly captures everything I hate about the insular, self-proclaimed gatekeepers of the fine arts world. The judges are a bunch of easily-manipulated phonies and the artists seem evenly split between pretentious, self-obsessed douchebags and self-righteous outsiders who resent other contestants for being better at bullshitting their way through a critique. It’s hi-frickin’-larious.

RT @MattOrtega GOP too worried about deficit to help unemployed but want to increase deficit for tax cuts to top 2%.

Obama mastered the “speak softly” part. Needs to work on “carry a big stick”. Start w/ recess appts for every blocked nominee.

Teachable Moment : Conservative activists will lie about anything, no matter how vile, for political gain. Don’t trust them.

RT @cnnbrk: Venezuela’s Chavez says he’ll pick board member for opposition broadcaster // Somebody tell Oliver Stone and Sean Penn.

Saw an ad for flavor-changing gum. Nice to know Violet Beauregard wasn’t “sent to the juicing room” in vain.

Almost 3 years since a bridge in MN collapsed, killing 13 people, yet economic stimulus via infrastructure spending can’t pass the Senate.

“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free…unless they’re Mexicans.” “Let America be America again.”

RT @tomtomorrow: Here in Ct., I can buy fireworks at the corner Kwik-e-mart, but not alcohol. Because it is the Lord’s day.