The fact that I’ve never seen ABC’s Dancing With the Stars does not keep me from voicing an opinion on one of this season’s stars. And my opinion is…well, never mind. But here are some of the comments being left on the show’s web site.
‘He should be in prison, not working on restoring his tarnished [...]

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I knew Stewart would have a field day with the Sanford tragedy but this exceeds expectations.

“I could digress and say that you have the ability to give magnificent gentle kisses, or that I love your tan lines or that I love the curve of your hips, the erotic beauty of you holding yourself (or two magnificent parts of yourself) in the faded glow of the night’s light – but hey, [...]

William “Willie” N. Meggs
“Since the legislature is building airport hangars instead of funding FDLE, they’re a little behind.”
— Florida State Attorney Willie Meggs, when asked when the Florida Department of Law Enforcement would finish its examination of the computer used by former State House Speaker Ray Sansom (R-Destin). Sansom was indicted by a grand jury [...]

Mid-2003: A reporter in Iraq stands on a pallet filled with shrink-wrapped bricks of C-Notes
“Who in their right mind would send 363 tons of cash into a war zone?” — Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif.
Pres. Bush said he vetoed the Democrats’ expansion of the SCHIP children’s health insurance program because it was too costly. This [...]

Think Progress:
On Thursday, ThinkProgress reported that Don Stewart, the communications director for Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), had sent an e-mail encouraging reporters to cover the right-wing smear campaign of 12-year old Graeme Frost. But on Friday, McConnell claimed his office was not involved:
Q: Was there an indication that your office was trying to [...]

Is it possible there is a bottom to the depths of rightwing hackery? Probably not, but there is a rumor going around that Michelle Malkin, the conservative pundit most likely to skin puppies to make a fur coat, has been fired as the occasional guest host for the Bill O’Reilly comedy hour on Fox News [...]

Via Digby who makes the point:
We really are getting to the point where it’s easier to assume that conservative religious leaders are crooks, perverts or liars. Sometimes all three. It’s amazing that the Christian right (to which I would add the Catholic Church’s moral teachings in light of the priest scandal) has thrived as long [...]

Mitt Romney’s comments about the civilian killings by the Blackwater private security guards sound kind of familiar. Romney’s counterterrorism advisor, Cofer Black, is vice chair of Blackwater USA.
“I think the allegations are very serious indeed and that there is an investigation which is under way,” Romney told reporters in his first public comment on the [...]

Despite the high profile of the alleged perp, the national media is ignoring the arrest of a longtime assistant U.S. attorney in Detroit on Sunday in a child-sex sting:
In his online profile, Atchison appears to be into infantilism, a fetish where adults wear diapers and act child-like for sexual gratification.
John D.R. Atchison, 53, of Gulf [...]