Should’ve worn Depends! via MotleyCollegeFootball.

Wherein John Cole almost makes me lose all control during laughter:

If you are an insane crazy person, or Andy McCarthy (sorry to be redundant), and the election of not only a Democrat, but a socialist muslim black man who most likely isn’t even American (has Andy seen the birth certificate yet? Why not? What are you hiding, President Obama!) has you increasingly unhinged, you heard something completely different, and it involved infanticide, ACORN, and thuggish attempts to… call a radio station:

Obama does this a lot — instinctively, and in response to questions or comments directed to him that contain any hint of criticism. He has been so immune from media scrutiny, and his supporters have been so thuggish in shouting down critics (recall, for example, the efforts to stop Stanley Kurtz’s appearance on Milt Rosenberg’s radio show in Chicago), that a disturbing presumption has taken hold — at least in Obama’s own mind. Namely, questions that imply even mild dissent from or disfavor of Obama are not legitimate unless he personally decides they are within the ambit of proper inquiry. The questioner has to get over the legitimacy hurdle before he or she gets an answer — so better be careful about your topic and your tone.

This is of a piece with his ACORN days, when the community-organizer was not above resort to what those extortionists glibly call “direct action.” Obama can appear civil, gracious and, as he insists, “pragmatic,” but the prospect of intimidation is always in the air. This is not a pretty picture after only two months, and it doesn’t get better from here.

These people have really lost touch with reality.

"ACORN days?" Wasn’t that one of the Boxcar children’s series?

After yesterday’s K.Lo foray into Catholicism cuckoo-land, and Newt Gingrich’s sadly laughable grab at attention with his "I know I screwed two wives over while they were desperately ill, but he’s the immoral one…look over there, shiny object!" laugh lines, I thought nothing could get more absurd.

Touche, John Cole. Touche.

And then I read tbogg and lost it all over again. Oh…the horror.

When we last left the Corner Krewe, Sarah Palin was awesome and liberals who questioned her qualifications other than PR fer the base, her fact-challenged hypocrisies and her RNC-financed silk boxers for her man candy were godless heathen meanies.

That was then.

This is unwed motherhood:

For all of the high-minded discussion of marriage policy on these pages and elsewhere, to me it looks very late. That train left a while ago. Even Corner readers, who will discuss choosing life vs. abortion, with endless passion, do not get so worked up about marriage. Which is why all I have to say is, "poor girl."

That was Lisa Schiffren, to whom K.Lo replies:

High-minded discussions can’t just be high-minded discussions. They need to be the bread and butter of our churches and schools and family lives. We’re not perfect, so our lives will never be perfect. But the train hasn’t left the station until we all decide marriage is not something we value.

…I wish the name Bristol Palin never appeared in any political commentary, but here we are….Let the girl live in peace with her child.

And, please, no Greta cameras this time.

Agree on no more cameras.

There’s an easy way to help that along:  do not schedule media appearances for the child.  Unless someone was forcing her to sit there for a teevee interview long after her mother’s run at the Veepstakes had ended to milk yet another 15-minutes of fame and more name recognition out of Faux News?

But there’s more on the relevant moral conundrum. Again from K.Lo, quoting from the lesser Mutt Lange-management period of Heart:

How about: From where I sit, it’s a bloody shame that we don’t expect more of teenagers? Just happening to hook up is not cool. It suggests a lack of respect for oneself and one’s … hookee. Being a single mother isn’t a glamorous endeavor, but neither is randomly hooking up and hoping you remembered to take your pill at the same time today as every other day, or to have Plan B handy in case the condom breaks or otherwise fails. So glamorous.

I know that Heart (of Barracuda fame) wants nothing to do with Sarah Palin, but…what about love? (The next line works too: Don’t you want someone to care about you?)

I get the feeling that K.Lo didn’t find Almost Famous the least bit amusing.  You knew it was only a matter of time before the purity patrol turned on the Palin family, didn’t you?

I just didn’t think it would happen until they inked a reality show deal that put them opposite the Kardashians or Gossip Girl or something.

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Cheney by Justin Bilicki, used w/ permission.

Why won’t he just go away?

In his first television interview since leaving office, former Vice President Dick Cheney will appear Sunday, March 15 exclusively on State of the Union with John King. The live, in-studio interview will air in the 9 a.m. hour.

Chief national correspondent and anchor John King will conduct a wide-ranging interview covering the anniversary of the Iraq war, the threat of a nuclear Iran, the ailing economy and more. King will also get Cheney’s impressions of the Obama administration and his thoughts on former President George W. Bush.

Don’t everyone stampede for the TIVO at once.

Hmmmm– talking about the economy, eh? Perhaps John King should ask Cheney if he still thinks that "he doesn’t see signs on the horizon of a significant economic slowdown" like he said didn’t see them back in 2007. Or whether he still think the Bush handling of the economy was a success.

Since Cheney sat in on all the economic meetings of import, by his own account, perhaps he can explain his rose-colored wrongness during the interview?  Or whether he still puts a lot of stock in the advice of "Lawrence Kudlow, John Makin, Wayne Angell, and Allen Sinai." 

Wonder if John King will have the balls to ask Dick about the lack of a Scooter pardon?

Or King could just say the word Youngstown, then point and laugh a lot. That could at least be deliciously awkward.

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Warning: the song in this YouTube may stick in your brain for days. Put down liquids before watching. Consider yourself warned.

Yes, it is a totally doofy video. No idea why, but it cracked me up.

Thought everyone could do with a laugh break this morning. And this will definitely provide one.

Given that this is the honest-to-gawd logo for Limbaugh’s “Female Summit”…Classy and inviting, natch. Shouldn’t this have been the chosen theme song? It’s excruciatingly perfect somehow, isn’t it? Since women make up half the electorate in this country…I can’t tell you how relieved I am to see that Rush — as the de facto bloated ego figurehead of the GOP — is taking women’s opinion so seriously and respectfully. Not.

Just a few of the many things that made me giggle today:

– “Nation’s blacks creeped out by all the people smiling at them.”

– Apparently, we’re all John Galt now. The stupid, it burns. And burns. And burns.

So many things to research, mock and snark about, so little time: Attaturk made me spew my coffee this morning. Bastard. And John Cole followed up with marketing advice for morans. Be sure to watch the Daily Show video at the end. Digby has a problem with moles.

Making me giggle: Sadly, No! pwns Donald Luskin. Put down all liquids before reading. Thers. He funny. Just go read Wolcott. bwahaha. Here, too. You’ll thank me later.John Cole. Smackdown. And another. Like shooting goobers in a barrel….