Monday, February 21, 2011

Freedom Lies

1.  While covering the union rallies in Madison, Wisconsin last week, Fox News reporter Jeff Flock was greeted by demonstrators with chants of "Fox lies!"  The reporter said he was a little hurt by the chants, but in the demonstrators' defense, he was probably lying.

2.  TLC's "Sarah Palin's Alaska" received a $1.2 million tax credit from the state, taking advantage of a Gov. Palin signed bill which provides subsidies to crews filming in Alaska up to 30% of their operating costs.  If you're keeping score at home, that's about $3.6 million to film Sarah Palin hanging out in her backyard and basically holding no job.  If that's not a Cadillac driving welfare mom, I don't know what is.

3. The Texas legislature is on its way to passing a bill which would allow students and professors to carry concealed handguns on campus.  "It's strictly a matter of self-defense," said state Sen. Jeff Wentworth, R-San Antonio. "I don't ever want to see repeated on a Texas college campus what happened at Virginia Tech."  Yes, because the best way to make sure people don't shoot guns on campus... is to make sure everyone brings guns on campus.

4. A three year old is baffling modern science after being born without a cerebellum while still having the ability to perform functions long thought to require a cerebellum, such as walking or riding a bike.  And today, the boy was welcomed with opened arms by the Republican party. 

5. Rush Limbaugh this week criticized Michelle Obama's physique saying that she "doesn't look like she follows her own dietary advice."  Read all about that and more in this month's issue of... "Wait... Who The Fuck Said That?!"

High five.