Current events

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg may not have the stupidest gun-control plan ever uttered, but it'll do until the real thing comes along. "Disarm yourselves, or we'll stop protecting and serving you."

Let's hear it for Bush and Obama, the bipartisan spending machine!

Today's "news our fathers wouldn't have understood" entry:

If the 40-year relationship of Bert and Ernie wasn't enough to convince you, know that the Muppets are officially supporting gay marriage.

I still haven't decided what I think about this:

The governing body of U.S. college sports fined Penn State University $60 million and voided its football victories for the past 14 seasons in an unprecedented rebuke for the school's failure to stop coach Jerry Sandusky's sexual abuse of children.

It's a funny old world when a mere entertainer understands the Constitution better than a supposedly smart leader like the mayor of New York:

If you thought bottled water was the biggest scam ever, let's go that one better on the absurdity scale:

“I’ll start with an order of water, move on to some H20, and, to drink, I’d like a glass of your finest vintage water.”

You have to hand it to our old friends at Westboro for never missing an opportunity to put their demented religion on display:

Can someone explain the contradictory evidence? On the one hand we have this:

The ranks of America's poor are on track to climb to levels unseen in nearly half a century, erasing gains from the war on poverty in the 1960s amid a weak economy and fraying government safety net.

And this:

President Obama's "You didn't build that" speech has been so throughly hashed over now that it might eventually be seen as the defining moment in the presidential campaign. The speech and Mitt Romney's reaction to it draw about as clear a bright line between the candidates' positions and overall approach as can be drawn. I think Charles Krauthammer has done the best job of explaining what that line is:

Pop quiz. The shootings at that Colorado theater were the responsibility of:

A. The Second Amendment

B. Hollywood

C. Rush Limbaugh