Allow me to be the first to say

Dinosaurs, JUST LIKE HITLER!

A new study suggests that dinosaurs may have helped keep an already overheated world warmer with their flatulence and burps 200 million years ago.

I'm just proud to live in the world

Where we start panicking over the possibility of our semi-manufactured "Bond Villains" creating a more sophisticated underwear bomb.

And he, on this saluting/slandering Mitt theme, I'm going to say this inspired by the Church of Latter Day Saints.

In this post

In honor of his "bravery" in public today...

I will sit idly by and not comment as you call Mitt Romney a variety of insulting names and engage in a mixture of truth and slanders.

What Atrios said

If you as an editor are completely incapable of y'know e-d-i-t-i-n-g you should probably not be paid to do your job anymore.

When we published Naomi Schaefer Riley’s blog posting on Brainstorm last week (“The Most Persuasive Case for Eliminating Black Studies? Just Read the Dissertations”), several thousand of you spoke out in outrage and disappointment that The Chronicle had published an article that did not conform to the journalistic standards and civil tone that you expect from us.

We’ve heard you, and we have taken to heart what you said.

We now agree that Ms. Riley’s blog posting did not meet The Chronicle’s basic editorial standards for reporting and fairness in opinion articles. As a result, we have asked Ms. Riley to leave the Brainstorm blog.

Of course, if you do quit, as a non-editing editor you'd be perfect for National Review.

If Bush was still "the decider"

This would probably be accurate:

Following today's reports of a Yemen-based underwear bombing plot thwarted by CIA operatives, TSA officials have acted swiftly and rationally to ensure the safety of all American airline passengers.

Beginning tomorrow (May 8) at 7 a.m. EST, passengers will no longer be permitted to wear undergarments of any kind on all domestic flights originating from within the contiguous United States.

But we're more rational now. I'm sure we'll just be required to wear thongs.

Golly, sounds fair

Well, this seems quite equitable -- Wells Fargo managed to help guide the country into an economic collapse as well as robo-sign and otherwise abuse tens, if not hundreds of thousands, of home owners out of their mortgages and only on occasion received a mild talking too.

But if you are but a worker for Wells Fargo, well, the rich -- especially when they come in the personhood of a large corporation -- are just better people than you:

Yolanda Quesada was fired when a background check revealed she shoplifted in 1972.

"[I'm] very good at what I do for Wells Fargo," Quesada says.

Quesada says she was a good employee, and has the pins, certificates and photos to prove it. But, her supervisor walked her out the door last week after more than five years of service at Wells Fargo...

Quesada says she worked in phone customer service and never handled cash.

Obviously her real problem was not working in management.

[cross-posted at Firedoglake]

Leadership

What craven assholes -- but of course IOKIYAR!

The no-holds-barred Texas rocker told CBS' "This Morning" that Romney's campaign told him to "stay on course" and not to tone it down after Nugent said he will "either be dead or in jail by this time next year" if President Obama is re-elected.

As John Avarosis notes, the Romney Campaign isn't denying the story. God forbid the national media inquire further as to why they are encouraging violent, insane, conduct.