Did castrated pigs deliver the Senate to the GOP? Fear of the coming condom shortage? As we await tonight’s results, remember some of the great freakshow ads of the 2014 campaign season.
There are consequences when we define deviancy down and ideas do matter. Fresh off the Palin Brawl from this summer, yesterday we had another incident of high-profile white on white violence. How much acceptance of the Palin incident played into this latest flare up cannot be known. Now the venue was NASCAR, an important part of white folk culture which is a source of camaraderie and good times for responsible white families. Yesterday, though, at the AAA Texas 500 Brad Keselowski and Jeff Gordon got into an angry off track brawl which eventually pulled in various members of their crews and hangers on.
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New Hampshire GOP chair gets a bit overexcited with her murder metaphors in describing epic Get Out the Vote effort.
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So not terribly shockingly (for Santa Cruz) but very lamely someone apparently roughed up a trick or treater who was dressed up as a Fox News reporter. It took me a few minutes to remember. But when I heard this I thought, wait, this sounds familiar. Well, it goes back to 2008 when my wife and I dressed up for Halloween as Joe the Plumber (me) and Ashley Todd (her).
Don’t remember Ashley Todd?
State judge in Kentucky declines to block that controversial Mitch McConnell mailer.
National Review undertakes exegesis of Lena Dunham book and concludes she’s a sex abuser, which prompts Dunham to launch into a “rage spiral” on Twitter.
In his on-going effort to appeal to DC elites as a different kind of Republican, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) says it’s “dumb” of Republicans to emphasize their support for voter ID laws which have been shown repeatedly to cut voting rates for minorities and poorer voters. He still they’re awesome. But it’s “dumb” to make a big deal out of them because black voters can get the wrong impression. Watch.
Does basically everyone under the age of 40(?) wonder why Ben Stein is even famous? A Nixon speechwriting gig can carry you for a long time.