OK, I can see a problem on the horizon. The new computer lets me read more faster and the links are piling up accordingly and the temptation to use them is greater as the blogging software is running much faster too. That last post only took about half an hour to slam together (not including the time involved in grabbing the links).

Whatever. These links are too good to throw away so no sense letting them grow stale:

IRAN

Phoenix Woman unloads

WINGNUTS

Dan Burton breaks new record for scaring himself, wants dome put over Capitol

Hobbled by her twisted ankle Sotomayor runs ten minutes late, Bob Corker can’t wait around for the gimp (Christy Hardin Smith also snarks)

Heads I win, tails you lose analysis

2009 National Conferenece, Building the New Majority

Lying about Media Matters (especially crude as Fox News never responds to the real allegations of news fraud)

Howie the Whore refuses to take on rightwing network ABC’s wingnut critics

SC Guv Sanford has disappeared and some think he has hied himself to a sanitarium (and while DougJ asks for sympathy I’m inclined to laugh my ass off *)

More on Sanford from Steve Benen

* The Republicans have played a dangerous game for years, herding the borderline psychos across the finish line when the natural political selection process would normally eliminate these whackos. Sanford, Sarah Palin, Michele Bachmann, Steve King, Dan Burton — the list is too long to go into but wingnuts have clearly been allowed to practice their own brand of racialist corruption. Like a super-safe urban “black” seat, ultra-rightwing districts have a bad habit of elected loons with a few fast talking corrupt politicians passing as loons. I’d assumed Sanford was from the latter camp, but the nuthouse rumors would suggest otherwise. If these people weren’t serving in Congress they’d either be running or buying into pyramid scams. Predators and useful idiots, that sums up the minority caucus in both houses of Congress.

CULTS

Raw Story summarizes the St. Petersburg Times’ story on Scientology in a way that’s slightly more compelling than my earlier link: Scientology leader physically beat staff

More on David Miscavige (Tom Cruise’s best man) from the IMDB database

Jonathan Turley’s take

Meet Chaplain O’Cultism

Does TSA thuggishness qualify as a cult yet?

NPR defends refusal to allow the word “torture” to be used when discussing the U.S. and the people we’ve tortured (and I hope I’m using the right case)

Army drug warriors’ record bust turns out to have been poppy seeds for putting on bakery goods

TECHNOLOGY

Chris Steller reminds us that political Twittering started with the RNC here in St. Paul (when even more reporters were arrested)

NORM LOSERMAN

Paul Demko on the Texas/Delaware lawsuits being stalled by stonewalling

Eric Boehlert hammers on the media coverage of Norm’s poor loser routine

A loser for all seasons [via the Daily Glean]

MONEY

SEIU sues to stop bank bonuses

TREASON ÜBER ALLES

Did members of The Family talk to Ensign about his philandering in early ‘08?

Supremes refuse to hear Plame appeal

Jon Kyl finally got the blowjob equivalent he’d been waiting for and has lifted his holds on Obama’s State Dept. nominees (Arizona had better be getting one hell of a lot out of this given that this country is weakest when we transition from one president to the next, and State is not a minor part of the government)

dday on Yoo’s upcoming testimony

I need some new synonyms for hypocrisy….

NO NO NO FUCKING NO!

ETC.

Gerbilism

Digby on O

Looks like Steve Jobs jobbed the liver transplant list (Steve’s the dark side of Apple, Woz was always the lightbringer)

Damn. I was gung ho to slap this one up and be done with it but then I walked away to do something and forgot about it.

Sorry, this shit is now soooo two hours ago. Kids, let this be a lesson to you.