Why smart people defend bad ideas

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Sarah Palin snorted cocaine off a 55 gallon oil drum while snowmobiling with friends and had illicit affairs with a top NBA star and one of her husband's business partners, a new book sensationally claims.
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The author writes that after college Mrs Palin developed a 'fetish' for black men.

That's not gonna go over well in Teabaggertown!

And if that’s even half true, it would certainly explain why she’s been shying away from actually running for office: she knows she had to scramble around and hoover-up all the cash she could before this stuff came out and sent her off to the John Edwards Home For Disgraced Politicians. I hope it's not true, though. There's probably still a lot of money left in her supporters; and that's money that I'd rather see end up in the pockets of Palin's windbreaker and lip gloss suppliers than in the war chests of viable GOP candidates.

The state has a law defining marriage as a heterosexual union, but the amendment's supporters say changing social tides will make it likely that gay couples married in New York will move to North Carolina and seek legal rights.

"They're going to bring with them their same-sex marriages," said Rep. Paul Stam, an Apex Republican and House majority leader. "They're going to want to get divorced" and have custody issues decided, he said. "We're not equipped to handle that."

I'm pretty sure there are divorce courts in NC. We can handle it.

I'm from Apex. This jackhole represents me.

In happy news, Obama is comin to town tomorrow.

I like how The Daily Show spent it's first segment complaining that the media had made up its mind that the GOP race was between Perry and Romney. Then spent its second segment talking about nothing but Perry and Romney.

Even our mock media has its preferred narrative.

The Book of my Enemy Has Been Remaindered

Brazilian scientists have found a new river in the Amazon basin – around 4km underneath the Amazon river. The Rio Hamza, named after the head of the team of researchers who found the groundwater flow, appears to be as long as the Amazon river but up to hundreds of times wider.

Late in the morning of the Tuesday that changed everything, Lt. Heather “Lucky” Penney was on a runway at Andrews Air Force Base and ready to fly. She had her hand on the throttle of an F-16 and she had her orders: Bring down United Airlines Flight 93. The day’s fourth hijacked airliner seemed to be hurtling toward Washington. Penney, one of the first two combat pilots in the air that morning, was told to stop it.

The one thing she didn’t have as she roared into the crystalline sky was live ammunition. Or missiles. Or anything at all to throw at a hostile aircraft.

Except her own plane. So that was the plan.

Yipes.

Black Sabbath, Black Sabbath, Black Sabbath
Iron Maiden, Iron Maiden, Iron Maiden
Wilco, Wilco, Wilco

Any others?

I finally found a way to get rid of the annoying page-preview-popups in Google search results.

For FireFox users, add these filters to Adblock Plus:

google.com##.vspi
google.com##.vspib
google.com###vspb

1) Click Tools -> Add Ons
2) Click Click on Adblock Plus then click the Options button. The Adblock Plus Preference panel will appear.
3) Click Add Filter, paste in one line, then hit return.
4) Repeat two more times for the other two lines.
5) Click OK.

From another frustrated user, on google.support.com.

Ah. much better.