Politics and other nightmares

I'm not quite as scandalized as some people seem to be over the fact that the Obama administration tried to sell a lie about the attack on us in Benghazi (it was a spontaneous riot because of a vile video, not a well-planned terrorist attack to commemorate 9/11) in an apparent effort to keep their "al Qaida is on the run" narrative going. I'm cynical enough to consider that politics as usual.

Answer to the question we never thought to ask, "Why are elections on Tuesdays?"

Nooooo kidding!

President Obama dropped by “The Tonight Show” to chat up Jay Leno on Wednesday as part of his two-day “campaign extravaganza.” Perhaps it’s just two days because counting higher is a bit of a challenge?

Some conservative writers are starting to hit back on behalf of Richard Mourdock. Here's a critique of attempts to compare Mourdock's comments to those of Todd "There is no pregnancy from legitimate rape" Akin, by  The Wall Street Journal's James Taranto :

What a bunch of craven little twits:

Holy cow. This election may be almost over already. I've been hearing about heavy early voting for days now, and today I experienced it. Middle of the week, 11 a.m., and the Election Board office at 1 W. Superior was jampacked. There must have been 50 people in line ahead of me, and they kept streaming in. There were probably 75 there when I left and still more arriving.

Open mouth, insert foot:

An inexplicable outbreak of common senseon the bench:

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Lap dances are taxable because they don't promote culture in a community the way ballet or other artistic endeavors do, New York's highest court concluded Tuesday in a sharply divided ruling.

Listen up, fellow crimethink co-conspirators. Here's your Newspeak vocabulary lesson for the day:

What do you call a first-year student at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill? If you said freshman, you’re living back in the Stone Age, when cavemen (make that cavepersons) roamed the earth.

I got sidetrack by election-coverage chores last week, so I didn't get around to blogging about the partisan claptrap that caught my eye in a Journal Gazette endorsement editorial. It concerned House District 82 in which the paper favors the Democrat, Mike Wilber. This is what they wrote about his opponent: