Spontaneous ∂erivation

It doesn’t happen that often.

Mostly beneath the cut, because there’s already a frickin’ embedded video and a lolcat on this here front page.

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I do lean left, although it’s not as hard left as people might think it is. In Europe I might be considered center, maybe center right, but not in America, where “right” has a… very different meaning.

Anyways, righties¹: can you please get some party leaders with communications clue. The death of intelligent political dialogue is a very bad thing, although the Bush years did a lot to kill it in the first place; still.

But we can have a dandy picnic and watch the burning ruins!

Marc Ambinder with 10 sweet points on why GOP.com is fail, including a pithy metaphor for the future of the Republican party. And, frankly, its present.

GOP also posted their passwords and admin accounts to the website, thereby easing any cracking attempts from hackers.

Gawker says, GOP Tries to Claim the Ghost of Jackie Robinson. Hint to GOP: Jackie Robinson was an independent, and he hated your guts in the end, and that is something of an understatement.

Dancing Michael Steele dances on GOP.com! Well, not really dancing, but he does shake his booty. If you can call that shaking. Look out for the glittery animated flag at the bottom of the GOP.com front page, too!

“It’s not even really a website,” says Michael Steele, who is either very perceptive of GOP.com’s suckiness and is trying to subvert that, or just really, really clueless.

Wonkette’s GOP.com picnic!

You iz future of Republican party. Yes, you iz.

1. Thanks to Steele, I somehow feel like I’m saying “homies” when I say that… [↩]

teh tea haz not, tho. sigh

Caption is so-so, but I’m not sure I could come up with a better one that wasn’t rather passe.

Terry Pratchett had a wonderful story about chickens and roads, I can’t remember where my copy is… sigh.

And also… apparently there really are Hollywood Chickens.

Caption by Squiggly

And that is why I don’t drive on the highways in the dark around here (rural area) during the fall.

Tips for Driving in Deer Country (PDF) from Washington State’s Fish and Wildlife department’s Living With Wildlife.

Week has been hard, long, and busy at work. Can’t blog (here, Tor.com, anywhere) until next week.

Accumulating lots of notes, though.

Um.

Good question.