Obama and Biden go to a local burger place and get burgers. Obama gets a burger with Dijon mustard. I learn this from a “oh-christ-what-is-the-Right-complaining-about-now”-style post on C&L. This leads me to a Media Matters post about Hannity, Ingraham, and Mark Steyn going on about his choice of condiment. I mean, given, it’s generally tongue in cheek, but in some sense you get the impression it’s actually a problem for them. (Like the standard tough guy real man Republican thing, illustrated with Ingraham’s comment: “What kind of man orders a cheeseburger without ketchup but Dijon mustard?” Obama’s just a faggy arugula-loving liberal, clearly.)

It further leads me to a blog called Legal Insurrection by William A. Jacobson, with a post called MSNBC Hides Obama’s Dijon Mustard (aka Dijongate). (incidentally, this page drags down my firefox something awful, for some reason.) The dude goes on with several breathless updates about the Dijongate situation. I start going about the business of writing my own chirst-are-you-kidding-me blog post in my head, but then further reading reveals he was joking. His point was that MSNBC had dutifully reported it as a character piece exactly how the White House wanted them to cover it:
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With pictures! And commentary! In some places!
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Have to make this quick because I’m paying $stupid per minute for an internet kiosk — I thought that Twitter would allow people to reply to messages which would send me text to my phone, which isn’t quite how it works, so blah.

Anyway, hi. Losing money in Vegas. Tell everyone I said hey.

Crooks and Liars has a recurring bit called Mike’s Blog Roundup, with quick links to various blogs in which Mike was interested, presumably. That itself has an occasionally recurring bit called HOLY CRAP, an even quicker list of links to various things about religion or by religious people, generally with the point of showing how fucked up they are. I am always fascinated by this and usually wind up with 20+ tabs in my browser when it’s over, following the long and winding branches of the astonishing human ability to happily hold entirely opposite views in its head and passionately defend each of them, in the same sentence if necessary.

It was through today’s Holy Crap that I came to read Beware of copying the Left by Bruce W. Green, founding dean of the Liberty University School of Law. In style, it reads like it’s written by a pastor. In content, it reads like it’s written by a drunk bully on a corner yelling at “the fags”, but with a better proofreader. Shorter Green: We can’t torture, because torturing would only play into the hands of liberals. So torture is evil and wrong — but torture anyway.

That burnt hair smell you’re getting is because of the sparks my brain is throwing off trying to understand that summary enough to make my point. Seriously, I can feel the mental resistance in typing it. Due to some internal hangups I have about looking foolish in public, I constantly re-evaluate any logic statements I make for correctness, lest someone point out some obvious flaw in my argument. Part of my brain refuses to sign off on my summary of his article, as it simply seems impossible to me that someone can put that forth as a logical argument. But it’s really what he’s saying.
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The whole Tea Party thing. It’s bonus funny because the Boston Tea Party was actually about protesting less taxes.

But whatever. I’ve had this open on my desktop for a while, forget how I got to it, but I’d been wanting to post about it. I love it, it’s such a contemporary American view of social protest. “Wake up, people! They’re taking your money, your homes, your jobs, your life itself! It’s time for you to TAKE ACTION and go stand in a park with a proper demonstration permit for 45 minutes and grouse about it with other people wearing beer hats!”

Started reading more of the comments and it’s just chock fulla angry stupid.