December

is "Bad Ideas" month, according to Acre Of Independence, and he provides a list.

Two that made the list:

The new Guns and Roses Album
Obama's new "Open For Questions" website

Why Didn't They Say So In The First Place?

Finally. A real reason to support an Automaker Bailout: NASCAR may go down with them!

If the Big Three Detroit automakers go down, it could mean a very bumpy road ahead for America's No. 1 spectator sport. If GM, Ford and Chrysler are forced to reorganize — or even to go out of business — some fear the wheels could come off for NASCAR.

What would my hubby do without NASCAR?

The Real Culture Wars

(Cap d’Agde, France) Militant, hardline nudists, also called naturists, have become suspects in three recent wife-swapper nightclub fires. Root cause is believed to be tensions developed between the nudists, who believe in being naked and healthy without sex, and the swinging wife-swappers, who seek sex with multiple partners.

Can't we all just get along?

Arrested Development

film tracker.

A Uniter?

Two groups wholly committed to Obama are at each other's throats:

It was like being at a klan rally except the klansmen were wearing Abercrombie polos and Birkenstocks. YOU NIGGER, one man shouted at men. If your people want to call me a FAGGOT, I will call you a nigger. Someone else said same thing to me on the next block near the temple...me and my friend were walking, he is also gay but Korean, and a young WeHo clone said after last night the niggers better not come to West Hollywood if they knew what was BEST for them.

Added: Some confusion about the "gay anarchist" group that stormed a Michigan church. As Clayton Cramer says:

Gay anarchism--there's a concept that someone hasn't thought through very carefully! Anarchism means the absence of government--so there's no one to call if gay bashers decide to beat up homosexuals, there's no one to punish employers that refuse to hire homosexuals, and there's no government to recognize your same-sex "marriage."

It is true that if you are a large and powerful minority of the population you may not need government to protect you--you can protect yourself. The experience of the post-Reconstruction South, however, suggests that even if your minority group is almost half the population, you need government to protect some basic human rights (such as the right to not be lynched). Homosexuals are, at most, about 3% of the population, and outside of big cities, more like 1% of the population. If this is really the fiercely homophobic society that these activists believe, anarchism is the last thing that they would want.

Live From New York......

Until this past weekend, I haven't watched Saturday Night Live since the days of Mike Myers and Dana Carvey, and I guess I'm not alone. Sarah Palin's appearance on Saturday earned the show its highest ratings in 14 years. Why? Not sure whether it was Repubs tuning in to see how they skewered her to her face or Dems tuning in for the same reason, but if I were SNL, I'd be hoping she and McCain are elected. Same for the late night talk shows; with Leno and Letterman telling 7 McCain/Palin jokes to every 1 Obama/Biden joke, seems like there's not going to be much to laugh about for the next four years.

Thanks To Joe The Plumber

Well, if this election cycle has done nothing else, it has brought a cascade of articles about Plumbers, including a reference to Flushed: How The Plumber Saved Civilization. Looks pretty interesting.