My daughter's competition entry

To my chagrin, site registration is required, damn it, but please help her!

You see, her job search for an entry level position animation will begin this summer and it would be great if she could add a win to her resume.  Or, even better, get noticed by the Burton’s people.  Now *that* would be a weird mother’s dream come true!

Be sure to comment here if you do indeed join in the voting!  And I’ll return you to your (ab?)normal biblio/sex-in-the-news content shortly.

First conservative forces want to stage teabag protests around the country come April 15th but had no idea what they had stepped into when they started talking about “teabagging.” As Jon Stewart so aptly pointed out a couple of weeks ago. (You can stop watching after “perversion literate; it goes tangential at that point.)

Then Andy Cobb points the obvious. Because this is what we’ll all be thinking of when you teabag on tax day:

I mean, really: How can you present a serious protest when you aren’t even aware of that you’ve set yourself up for mockery? Teabagging isn’t just some esoteric sexual practice that John Waters threw into a movie. It was, but it hasn’t been for some time. Aren’t you people even aware that teabagging has its own wiki entry and has far more to do with online computer gaming than it does queer practices? Seriously, guys have been teabagging one another since Halo 1. Hell, there’s plenty of video examples on You Tube.

If that wasn’t bad enough, this week Rachel Maddow caught another mock-worthy conservative initative in the making:

Seriously. How can you people expect to be taken seriously about public policy? At the very least, hire someone who can tell you when you’re about to blow it. Take that pun as you will.

Because you can’t conduct a culture war when you’re culturally clueless. At least we’re finally seeing how ludicrously out-of-touch you are.