I really think Mark Sanford’s behavior with regard to the stimulus issue was and is unforgivable, so I’ll be glad to see him brought low. That said, without feeling sorry for him in the slightest I do feel slightly sorry for the American people that we continue to live in a political culture that’s so affected by these sex scandals.

Infidelity was never a good measure on how good a politician is, but we seem to think that it’s more important than anything else.

Anyways, Tim Fernholz sums up the situation quite well, especially the GOP’s reaction to it all:

It took an admittedly sensational story about Gov. Mark Sanford’s personal life to get the national press to converge on South Carolina and declare his political career “over” due to “values” issues. (Whatever, he wouldn’t be the first Southern governor to be a comeback kid after marital infidelity.) But when he attempted to deny much needed unemployment funding to people suffering under the recession while cutting school funding and the social safety net, in the name of an economically baseless austerity policy that involved telling his his weakest constituents to effectively drop dead, well, those decisions didn’t threaten his political career or reflect on his values. That made him a “star” in the GOP. Priorities, priorities.

This pretty much sums it up… The red arguments are completely ridiculous.  I particularly was baffled by the “What’s ‘Non Sequitur?’ mean? Do I look it up in a fag-to-English Dictionary?” (bottom left).

The stupid… it hurts.

Here’s a great youtube video he posted:

“the plaintiffs, all of whom are elderly, claim their mental and emotional well-being was damaged by this book at the library”

Pretty funny if you ask me.  And, you people who want to burn this book because it was emotionally damaging to you?  Um, it’s your own fault for continuing to read the book.  Is it just me, or does this remind you of the time when some teenage girls sued McDonalds for “causing” their obesity?

Shep is probably the only sane person on Fox News.  He really cuts the bullshit out.  So far he’s the only one who thinks Beck is crazy and calls the BS that is shelled out by his own network.  I *heart* Shep for these moments…

Sweet…  Loving science is no longer a nerdy socially unacceptable thing.  May the young ones take a dive with their little brains into science.

Via TPM TV.

Sit your asses back down, Harriet Tubman, Thomas More, Gandhi and Jesus Christ. Hank Paulson is in the house!

Quite hilarious actually.