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Journalism: From profession (?) to commodity

CSI and friends with benefits. Bad news.

WalMart Auntie of the Year

Waxman: I know nothing. I rely on the scientists. Maggie's readers understand the issues better than he does.

California voters may be forcing their pols to act like adults. Wow. In 8 hours I could reduce their budget 25% with a Sharpie pen and have no meaningful impact on life in that gigantic and pleasant state. Related: The press was totally on board with the failed scare campaign.

Brit banks rebel against Obama tax plans. Why should foreign tax collection be their job?

What nations are the worst polluters? More on PT Obarnum at Dino

Kevin Jackson:

I received an email from a black man who was attempting to convince me that, though I am completely black, I have no experience growing up black in America.  The bulk of his theory on my ‘blackness' was based on the fact that I constantly lampoon Obama in my blog. He counseled me to embrace Obama, as Obama could help me to "rediscover the black experience."  He warned that "whites would never see me, as I see me."

Touting Obama as the poster child for blackness is a ridiculous notion.  Further, the idea that Obama can teach me "blackness" is equally ridiculous.

Steele says MSM didn't vet Obama because of race. I disagree. They didn't want to vet a Lefty. They do colonoscopies on black conservatives.

Parents objecting to having gay propaganda shoved down their kids' throats at age 5

I knew nothing about Gypsy culture and Marime. h/t, AVI

Youtube: A very brief History of Weed. h/t, Thompson. Pot is America's #1 cash crop. Sheesh. I never figgered out what was so great about it, compared to beer.

Ths brief ad by CatholicVote gave Kim goosebumps

Powerline: Obama's incoherence on detainees:

Perhaps the solution is to release the dangerous detainees and then follow and kill them.

Great idea. Could make for good fun at the local rifle range, but that would be mean, and Honi soit qui mal y pense.

Dr. Sanity is not impressed by the O:

Understand that I listen to people for a living. I hear various degrees of honesty, sincerity, and real emotional pain being expressed on a regular basis. I also hear some of the most self-serving, dishonest and completely irresponsible utterings that it is possible to imagine. Yet, in my professional career, I have to freely admit that I have heard nothing like the deceitful and self-aggrandizing utterings of Barack Obama, which seem to get more and more pathological with every speech he gives. His most recent scam, in the National Archives in front of a fake copy of the U.S. Constitution just about takes the cake. This is not irony, so much as it is the grandiosity of tyranny.

Besides his smarmy condescension, what bugs me most about listening to the O is how self-referential he is. He never just talks about a thing: he always talks about himself and the thing. Perhaps he believes his hype.

Related: A forensic lit expert asks Who wrote Dreams of my Father? Forensic lit sounds cool, sort of like handwriting analysis on a larger scale.