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Book on the History of American Political Paranoia.

Glenn Beck wants you to buy gold now that the Crap is Going Down.

… Warren Buffett beats the Goldbugs.

The Czech Republic needs you to know its not Chechnya.

… Columbine, not 9/11.

The Most Embarrassing Republican Youth Outreach attempts.

The Koch Brothers buying newspapers.

Embarrassing CNN gaffe moment: “as if a bomb was dropped in Boston”.

Recollections on Al Capp campus appearances.

Read the Alex Jones defenders on this poll question relay.

Snopes debunks a bunch of Boston Marathon crap. Â The Family Guy predicted nothing; is not the new Lone Gunman. Â Thankfully — I don’t want Seth MacFarlane swirling around as conspiracy-relevant.

Ricin sender to Obama and different politicians, an Elvis Impersenator stopping a human body parts cartel conspiracy.

Joyce Carol Oates has a book that sounds interesting.Â The Accursed.

The rise of the Oligopoly. Â Why your old fears of Monopolies are passe.

Howard Dean is Mad and thinking of jumping the Democratic Party for Obama’s Budget Proposal.

Jenny Sanford torpoedoing her ex-husband Mark Sanford’s comeback bid.

Anthony Weiner’s comeback seems to be coming along successfully. Â The Next Mayor of New York City.

Should the Creepy Time Square costumed figures be regulated?

How the CIA helped build Disneyworld.

Elizabeth Warren: banks determined the numbers of foreclosure fraud victims.

Stephen Colbert: Â “Oopsie Daisie Homophobe“.

Guardian covers the Thatcher Funeral. Â Skip to the “on the crowds” section” — kind of what I’m always most interested with in this type of thing.

There was a Cockroach Racing fad in the early 20th Century? Â Let’s bring it back!]

If youâ€™re center-left and Jewish, would you rather your son be a West Bank settler or an anti-Zionist writer?

.High School apologizes for assignment asking students to convince teacher that Jews are Subhuman and stuff.

.Did this 1969 book predict the current year?

.And is this a good sci fi from the start of the last century?

.Neal Stephenson has a project for encouraging the creation of Â optimistic sci fi futures. Â Seems didactic to me..

.Ron Pul has a new think tank, some liberals love it.

.Marco Rubio criticizes pop stars for going to Cuba.

Found:Â Dear Captain AmericaÂ letter.

Ales Jones– Time Magazine mock cover

It should be illegal for teenagers to own cell phones that have cameras. Apple and Samsung should make phones that have everythingâ€”all the bells and whistlesâ€”but no cameras. Schools shouldn’t allow students to bring phones with cameras into their buildings. Â Teen girl rape photo on web causes suicide.

.NYC people watching at 780 frames per second.

.“I was a political astroturfer”/.

.Don’t know that I need to even listen to this.Â Interview with lew rockwell about how the old Cowboy movies were full of Commies.

The situation with Britcoin. Â Libertarian candidatesÂ for state senate in North Dakota and Vermont and the the Libertarian Party of CanadaÂ accepting Britcoin donations. The Mises guys(Libertarian gun hoard nuts) debate the issue.

Kissinger files released by wikileaks. Â 1973 through 1976.

What’s going on in North Korea? Â No one has a goddamned guess, and the news media is useless and worse as always.

Russian Orthodox Priest, Patriarch Kirill, Religious conservative ally of Putin, calls Feminism a bunch of things. Â I want to focus on his name: apt, ain’t it?

The Reshma Saujani Comeback Attempt. Â Interesting wikipedia deletions abound.

The electro-sensitive and their small hatches of real estate community.

Glenn Beck Blazer commenters remark on Obama basketball playing. Â (“Never read the bottom half of the Internet.”)

No cuts in Defense.

Â April 9th in history. Â Samuel Twain gets his steamboat license.

Reading through the odd fallacies of Ron Paul commenters on a knife stabbing … (Note: Knives can kill people, just not as efficiently as guns.)

There is indeed dancing on Margaret Thatcher’s grave.
The entire nation of Argetina follows suit, though there’s a headline claiming “mixed feelings” in the harper.
… and a bit of perspective in letting it go.
No notes from Reason on political tributes as political attacks.
10 anti-Thatcher songs.

Counting the minutes between how long it took Obama to tweet about Thatcher and how long it took him to tweet about Roger Ebert.

Roger Ebert’s greatest hits: Â 20 Thumbs Down.
3… 2…1… and Westboro Baptist to protest at … yeah, okay.

What is the political situationin Super Mario Bros?

Kim Jung Un approves of Same Sex Marriage — Live from New York, it’s Satur..

The porn downloaded by the Vatican.

More and more people don’t own a tv.

An elaborate hoax created about a Mega Church Pastor Forsaking Christ.

Rand Paul sells his Federalist take to the Evangelicals to launch a 20 year plot to destroy gay marriage.

Oh joy! Â Now you can teach your homeschooled kids a “Ron Paul Curriculum“. Â But can you pay for it with your Ron Paul coinage?

Â To quote “They Might Be Giants”. — weirdest thing to quote in praise of Lady Gaga.

“even purer than the younger Paul” — strange metaphors to be tossed for

Dodgeball. Â Should it be banned? Â A good case for the banning dodgeball comes out of Joe the Plumber’s musings.

How the 30 baseball teams each got their names.

Tennessee legislator to take up nixing popular vote of Senators.

Taliban: Â accidetnally saving the Falcon.

Â Arizona bans Transexuals use of public restrooms. Â Basically.

Â Spotting extremists on twitter.

Oklahoma state legislator fights that old Agenda 21.

The campaign to revoke Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize.

The coming late night war of Jimmy Fallon versus Jimmy Kimmel. Â Oddly it’s Letterman versus Leno part 2.

North Korea’s shoddy photo-shopping.

Interesting online media factoids.

Florida Gulf Coast University — how they trampled over habitatÂ for commercial exploitation. Â But, go team.

Cops v Punks. Â (Cops undercover as Punks. Â Huh.)

Conservative Reviews of “Spring Breakers”. Â Comedy Gold!

6 terrible government produced videos

The 25 Least Visited Countries in the World.

Reasons you Might Get locked in a 19th century mental institute.

No, North Korea basically is a “Hermit Kingdom”. Â See 25 least visited country list for the eyeball test.

Raider of the Lost Arc brainstorming sessions.

Pussy Riot used to sell lingerie.

Jew In a Box exhbit — no, probably not the best way to teach Berliners about Judaism.

Google puts in Cesar Chavez, and the thing to do is to see who references it as Hugo.

a puff piece on the kkk?

Engineering analysis of Noah’s Arc.

Former South Carolina wishes an anti-war Soldier had come back in a body bag.

A video interview with Hawaii’s lone Republican state Senator.

Some actually talented comic book creators creating a “Battlefield Earth” graphic novel for the Church of Scientology.

What Ifs — a man who might have been Pope.

Russia’s 1905 Revolution … a play.

NSA releases back issues of its in-house magazine, heavily redacted.

The Internet as it was in 1995.

Ford runs ads touting an… um… serial killer utility for its automobiles? Â (more.)

Dark ruminations from Plato.

Polling in on the South Carolina special election that may see a Mark Sanford comeback or Colbert’s sister get into Congress.
Rick Santorum stumps for Sanford’s opponent. Â This is Santorum Country, I guess.
… but not Stephen Colbert Country.

Pentecostal Pastor Seeks Democratic Nomination for Governor of Pennsylvania

Alec Baldwin comes out against Michael Bloombergian Christine Quinn on “Progressive Economic” grounds.

Tea Partiers form boycott of Fox News.
… despite, you know, blatant progpanda in how they skip over details of Obama’s Israel visit.

Smashing Pumpkins founder and lead singer Billy Corgan joined Alex Jones once again in studio for a powerful interview. In this excerpt, Corgan analyzes the momentum of the infowar, while hinting at an even greater awakening hindered only by population’s refusal to confront the truth and embrace a shift into a totally new paradigm. Â No, seriously: Â “The momentum of the infowar”.

Baghdad Bob VINDICATED.

University of Oregon player calls Sandy Hook a conspiracy.

The Career Suicide of Michele Shocked.

Mark Evanier gets 5 cent residual for the 1990s sitcom Bob.
… which, incidentally, spawned a pretty great Ty Templeton comic book (and the worst work ever by Evan Dorkin.)

with Westboro Baptist

Manchin of West Virginia tries to get around NRA Scoring.

The problem of Argo: Â as always, “CIA produced”.

Florida Democrats fear falling into a sinkhole more than Florida Republicans. Â (Actually this makes ideological sense: Infrastructure and Government concerns.)

Michelle Shocked proclaims “God Hates Fags”, empties SF concert, Seattle cancels gig, and… we’re off to the races.
She tries to explain herself, or something.
Beth Ditto drunkenly shouts “Obama! Â Obama!” from bar she was kicked out of.

beyond the gender binary, and I think this will renew a push for PBS defunding.

Photos of 1970s Americanism with Environmentalist captioning.

Michele Bachmann uses the word “literally”.

God Guided the Hand of the History Channel to show Obama was Satan.
also Obama has shape shifting security detail.

As recently as 2003, the president of theÂ Greater Fort Bend County Tea PartyÂ had a very different title: director of propaganda for the American Fascist Party. Â … or, as he claims, he was there to “blow the lid off the joint”.

George W Bush art multiplying.

Ah, wacky Novelty Catalouges of Days Gone By.