Bible Belt priorities

Sure the football coach at Arkansas had a bad rep even before wiping out with his mistress on his midlife crisis crotch-rocket, but he sort of wins games.

(pic from here)

You're next Joe Arpaio

The tin-horn dictatorship of Maricopa County, Arizona is finally starting to come down.

Having your own little "Syria" in the Southwest gets you lots of crazy followers though.

America's "go to guy" for racism

George Zimmerman has an unusually long-list of defenders who haven't spoken to him much: Joe Oliver; his next door neighbor; his lawyers.

But one man he's spoken to, Sean Hannity.

What a predictable person reach out to if you have a problem with mistreating a black person, Sean Hannity knows in advance who the real victim is, the one with less melanin.

The guy who cut his teeth in radio filling in for Bob Grant and having avowed racists call to rant about African Americans and mocking Abner Louima when he was "Giuliani-timed" by the New York City police has become the go to talking head for making a black victim into a villain.

For which he is handsomely paid.

Meanwhile, no one seems to know where Zimmerman is, except he isn't in Florida and, according to his now former "lawyers of the year", may not be competent.  Oh and he can still carry around that 9mm.

But no problem, I'm sure.

Let us know if you see Joe Oliver driving a white bronco.

[cross-posted at Firedoglake]

"Hello Ladies..."

With Santorum out of the equation now is your time Herman Cain. Say Herman why is Romney losing so badly to Obama with women?

President Obama is very likable to most people, if you just look at him and his family. But if you look at his policies, which is what most people disagree with, it’s a different story. And I think many men are much more familiar with the failed policies than a lot of other people, as well as the general public.

Wow, no sexism there.

Oh, and there's men and there's "other people".  So ladies at least you are technically people to Herman Cain...aka potential love interests.

John Derbyshire approves.

How not surprising at all

All the places that oppose sex education and make it more difficult to have contraceptives...as well as those places with the shittiest schools -- have the highest teen pregnancy rate.

Mississippi has the highest teen birthrate in the nation while New Hampshire has the lowest, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Tuesday, following up on a report that found the incidence of pregnancy among U.S. teens was falling. Mississippi reported 55 births per 1,000 teens aged 15 to 19 in 2010, more than 60 percent above the U.S. average, according to state data released on Tuesday. New Hampshire's rate was less half the national average at 15.7 births for the same age group. Teen birth rates were higher in the South and Southwest and lower in the Northeast and Upper Midwest, the CDC said, noting that Hispanics and blacks had the highest teen birth rates.

On the heels of yesterday's unsurprising news that conservatism comes from a predominance of "low-level" thinking, we have an idea what nether-regions these thoughts go to.

Awkward pictures of Mitt Romney

This is how the Human Centipede begins:

Nice socks, Barb make you wear those for not taking out the trash?



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I'm entitled to be an asshole

I have cancer.

That seems to be what passes for John Derbyshire's defense of being a gigantic racist.  What gave him that ability the prior three decades however....?

I, on the other hand, express it this way.

I'm sorry you have cancer, and also that you are a metaphorically huge dick.