What I’m Surfing: Must Reads While You’re Enjoying the Beginnings of a Blizzard

Here’s what I’m surfing and percolating into potential blog posts while I’m snowed in.

All below the cut to keep download times short!

• Absolutely Hilarious:
  • Professor is “anxious” that image of Michelle Obama planting a garden will be “racist.” Seriously, she is.
  • Congress is still trying to pass HR 1388.  I call it hilarious because if I take it seriously, it’s frightening.
• National News:
  • Michelle Malkin on RINO watch.
  • Andrew Breitbart, “Dreaming of a President Petraeus and an American Surge.” Says Breitbart: “Let’s create more government dependency, reward the incompetent and print more money.  That’s doubling down on stupidity.”
  • Nate Hentoff, “A Soveriegn State of Evil” at the Cato Institute. Says Hentoff: “Because Sudan is a sovereign state, the U.N. Security Council, while verbally reprimanding Africa’s Hitler, will not intervene with force, although Gen. al-Bashir – whose charges include murder, extermination, forcible transfer (of civilian populations), torture and rape – is now condemning even more of the black Muslims in Darfur to death.”
  • Language Log, “Sex Linked Lexical Budgets.” Women don’t actually talk more than men.
  • Bob Ellis, “Former Commerce Nominee: Obama Will Bankrupt the USA.” Says Sen. Gregg: “There’s no other way around it.  If we maintain the proposals which are in this budget, over the 10 year period that this budget covers, this country will go bankrupt.”
  • Joe Nocera, “The Problem with Flogging AIG.” Says Nocera, “How does outing these executives fix skewed compensation incentives, which have created that unjustified sense of entitlement that pervades Wall Street? No, it’s mostly about using subpoena power to satisfy the public’s thirst for blood.”
  • Open Thread at NewsBusters: Is the Obama honeymoon becoming a divorce proceeding?
• South Dakota News:
  • Get your protest on: Tax Day Tea Parties in SoDak
  • SoDakians, keep doing the job that the Rapid City Journal no longer wants to do: journalism.  Send in your blizzard photos.
  • Todd Epp is a celebrity in SoDak
  • SDWC evaluates Herseth-Sandlin’s future employment options
  • Funding problems in Rapid City School District (via RCJ)
  • Thune says mortgage plan rewards bad behavior (via RCJ)

What a hero looks like! Wow!

Above image from Hyd-Masti’s year in photographs

My Kansas family keeps miniature horses, and I think that they are the most adorablest little creatures EVER (baby goats come in a close second!).  Since many of us could probably use a laugh today, thought I would pass along this video