#FollowEaster @the_ironsheik Who met @DavidOrtiz and I wish I had been there to see that.

i meet the david ortiz. he respect the legend. he know i am not like that jabroni ultimate warrior. if i wanted i break the ortiz neck
— The Iron Sheik (@the_ironsheik) March 29, 2012

This account has the blue verified check, but it sure reads like a 'bot. Don't get me wrong, it's like a genius horse e-books 'bot, not a filthy sex spambot. Well, a little like both, I guess.

Learned today that Chang and Eng weren't the only famous conjoined twins to call #NC home.

Millie and Christine McCoy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: 

Millie-Christine McCoy
Image source: Weird Carolinas

They were sold to a showman named Joseph Pearson Smith at birth, but were soon kidnapped by a rival showman. The kidnapper fled to the United Kingdom but was thwarted, since the United Kingdom had outlawed slavery in the 1830s. 

Smith traveled to Britain to collect the girls and brought with him their mother, Monimia, from whom they had been separated. He and his wife provided the twins with an education and taught them to speak five languages, dance, play music, and sing.[1] For the rest of the century, the twins enjoyed a successful career as "The Two-Headed Nightingale", and appeared with the Barnum circus.

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The GOP's subtitle ought to be Idiocracy Ascending!

"Idiot America: How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free" | BuzzFlash.org: 

ᔥ Charles Pierce

So when you have The New York Times, on the front page, posing a self-evidently ridiculous notion like a politically savvy challenge to evolution -- actually it's not. It's a politically savvy challenge to the poor bastards who are trying to teach high school biology.

Those "poor bastards" deserve better from the media, and from all of us who send our kids to learn from them.

Ancient Mysteries of #NC

 At the library with the firstborn this morning, I flipped through a copy of Weird Carolinas while he read some Scooby-Doo books. A few interesting entries, but this one in particular caught my eye. First, because it's a pretty huge sinkhole and neat picture, but then I puzzled over the chapter name with the date of the sinkhole's appearance:

Astonishing @Survcast Result

Survcast - Why the Health Care Challenge Is Wrong by Ronald Dworkin | NYRblog | The New York Review of Books: 

I recently posted my response (http://goo.gl/GXXeQ) to Ronald Dworkins's NYRB essay regarding the challenge to the ACA (or "Obamacare"). How persuaded are you by Mr. Dworkins's arguments?

It's a small sample, but still, I'm surprised that even after being shown how the argument is, in fact, specious, there are still people who think it isn't. If I hadn't voted in my own poll, the No votes would be in the lead.

I'm hoping that result is partially due to confusion caused by a sloppy typo on my part ... I accidentally deleted "lead" in "could [lead] to" so maybe folks are somehow misunderstanding what argument I'm referring to? Although, since it's specifically discussed in the article and is the only argument about broccoli that has been discussed on the national stage since Bush I famously proclaimed his distaste for the popular green vegetable, it's hard to imagine my error could cause any confusion there.

It is disgraceful that the "THE GOVERNMENT CAN FORCE YOU TO BUY BROCCOLI IF WE DON'T FIND THIS UNCONSTITUTIONAL" argument didn't result in every person who couldn't immediately spot its clear invalidity being thrown in a potato sack and dumped in the Potomac. That, even after its invalidity is spelled out, it still remains persuasive reinforces my belief that most (not all, but most) Republicans are simply too stupid to talk to. They just don't get it. The "limiting principle" that some were so concerned couldn't be determined is so fucking obvious that failure to perceive it tells me they suffer from some form of mental retardation.

Seriously, if you voted no on Question 3 of that survey, I don't even want to hear from you because I've had it. You are, literally, too stupid to talk to.