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Rolling Stone columnist Matt Taibbi has a new blog chock full of gems.

From The peasant mentality lives on in America:

It pains me to say this as an American, but we are the only people on earth dumb enough to use a nationwide campaign of “teabag parties” as a form of mass protest, in the middle of a real economic crisis.

What’s next? The Great Dirty Sanchez-In of 2010? A Million Man Felch?

From the wonderfully titled article Teabagging Michelle Malkin:

When you read Ann Coulter, you know you’re reading someone who would fuck a hippopotamus if she thought it would boost her Q rating. That’s a rare quality and it commands one’s attention.

And scary bible stories:

what does it mean when my own parents tell me, with a straight face, a story about God asking Abraham to sacrifice his only son? You’re a little kid, listening at bedtime in your pee-jays to the story, expecting that Abraham is going to tell God to go fuck himself because he loves his children so much, and be rewarded for doing so. Instead it’s exactly the opposite, the father in the story is rewarded for being willing to carve his innocent son up with a knife, the moral of the story somehow being not that God is an insane murderous psychopath, but that God is just and wise and should be obeyed. When the story is over, Dad tucks you in to bed and says he’ll see you in the morning. Now that’s realism for you.

Quite a few long pieces up there, mostly focused on US economic woes and bailouts. Good place to spend an hour.

So if you’re lucky enough to be employed and still able to pay your cable bill, and blessed enough to have IFC On Demand, you should look for a documentary premiering April 16: New World Order. The film features Alex Jones along with an assortment of 9/11 truthers, Bilderberg buffs, and NWO theorists. Love him or hate him, you have to admit Alex Jones has presence. If you’ve seen A Scanner Darkly, you’ll remember Alex as the guy with the bullhorn warning the world one passerby at a time. Definitely worth tuning in whenever the urge strikes. I”m hoping the film will confirm Ann Coulter is a Ron Paul loving Lizard Man, but I’d watch it even if it didn’t.

Paraguay never fails to satisfy when it comes to odd news, but this time there’s no Bush involved. From the BBC: Paraguay leader admits love-child. No biggie, right? But it gets better:

Paraguay’s President Fernando Lugo has admitted he is the father of a child who was conceived when he was still a Roman Catholic bishop.

So what’s more shocking, the fact that the president of Paraguay is an ex-bishop? Or that he fathered a child while he was a bishop? Or that there are no underage boys involved?

A letter from T. S. Elliot to George Orwell, July 13, 1944:

And after all, your pigs are far more intelligent than the other animals, and therefore the best qualified to run the farm — in fact, there couldn’t have been an Animal Farm without them: so that what was needed (someone might argue), was not more communism but more public-spirited pigs.

Found at Daring Fireball

The LA Times interviews several former Area 51 employees about the OXCART program, along with other goings on at the base.

“Late Sunday, three CIA agents brought me home. One drove my car; the other two carried me inside and laid me down on the couch. I was loopy from the drugs. They handed Jane the car keys and left without saying a word.” The only conclusion she could draw was that her husband had gone out and gotten drunk. “Boy, was she mad,” says Collins with a chuckle.

A Boston University researcher has identified one of the major causes of childhood asthma: dead cockroaches. His research methodology is almost as nasty as the findings: go to the public housing projects in Detroit with a vacuum cleaner and collect data.

“We collected house dust — big dust bunnies — added water, let them mix overnight, and spun the junk out of them, until we had extract,” said Dr. Remick.

The extract was filled with proteins from Blattella germanica — the common cockroach — whose exoskeletons and droppings become airborne after death.

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