Alas, if those attending the upcoming teabaggers rally this coming Saturday in DC follow these "safety" guidelines recently published by a bloggger in Maine, they're not really going to have much to do during their off hours.  It pretty much warns them away from everywhere anything interesting is happening and from the horrors of a chance encounter with anyone not exactly like themselves.

But then again, hey ... they probably have no interest in nor understanding of such mundane things as The Constitution or the other founding principles of our great diverse democracy, so they should be happy just hanging out in their hotel coffee shops chatting with and stroking the egos of fellow baggers.

Click here to view a Google map of their "safe areas", and try not to hurt yourself with laughter.

And now ... another in our series of "Shockingly Wasteful Government Projects" - a road sign absolutely nobody believes.

It's common knowledge that the cost of flying even the smallest aircraft (even a dirigible) long enough to actually monitor the speeds of vehicles passing below would be vastly greater than any income from speeding tickets generated by such a silly notion.

Sorry guys, no rational driver is naive enough to risk rear-ending that tractor-trailer ahead by actually looking up to see if there's a plane overhead.  But thanks for the laughs.

To Sit or Not to Sit
A Physician’s Reasons Why Men Should Stand

Western Europe is abuzz with the latest flare-up in the war between the sexes, and for the moment, the women seem to be winning.

If outrage continues to mount, it will soon be not just uncool and politically incorrect for a man to urinate while standing up, but out and out ILLEGAL.

Yes, the liberated women of France and Germany and Holland have vowed to put their men down — on the toilet. They carry placards showing a huge red X scrawled across a man standing to urinate. They shout: “Laissez tomber votre pantalon, et asseyez vous! (Drop your trousers and sit)!” “Behalte deine Tropfen fuer dich (Keep your drips to yourself)!”  “Toch niet weer een vieze plas op MIJN badkamer vloer (Not another filthy puddle on MY bathroom floor)!”

Read the entire article here.

This most recent example of (apparently quite common) dalliance with rent boys by homophobic christianist dingbats like George Rekers absolutely demands a compilation of a few currently useful euphemisms.  So herewith ...

Lifting the luggage. (Apparently as a precursor to teabagging?)
Holding the bag.
Stuffing the satchel.
Packing the old valise.
Slamming the Samsonite.
Hoisting the duffel.

... and of course, the ever-popular:

Wide stance. (Larry Craig)
Playing the pipe organ. (Rekers)
Ye shall know them by their fruits. (King George)

Absolutely positively my very favorite musical satirist of all time is Tom Lehrer.

Although it regrettably lacks two of Lehrer's works I particularly enjoy, "Makes A Fellow Proud To Be A Soldier" and "I Hold Your Hand In Mine", a new CD collection of some of his best has just been released, along with a DVD which includes some of these gems:

Poisoning Pigeons In The Park

The Vatican Rag

The Masochism Tango

I Got It From Agnes

We Will All Go Together When We Go

I'm once again reminded of my several memorable Army years at Fort Bragg, and the morning the Post Duty Sergeant woke us all up with Tom Lehrer's "Makes A Fellow Proud To Be A Soldier" on the post-wide PA system, rather than the usual pre-recorded trumpet reveille.  We heard later that he'd been court-martialled.  Apparently General Westmoreland was not amused ...

Amazing, isn't it, that as described in this Newsweek story, those worldwide pedophile Roman Catholic priests also molested ... girls?

Well no, actually, it's not surprising at all ... other than to, perhaps, homophobic right-wing screechers and papal sycophants who will deny in the face of bald-faced facts that their kiddie-loving priests' problem is not homosexuality, but in fact centuries of inhumane sexual repression.

And given their predilection to find an easy scapegoat, it's also no surprise that the Vatican's PR types jumped at the chance to blame the sins of "the fathers" on gay people, utterly glossing over the documented facts that, not only are most pedophiles straight men who prey on little girls, but that their own collared transgressors were both straight and gay.  Not to mention, also, that rape has been shown to be primarily a crime of personal violence rather than sex.

Shame, shame, shame on the Pope and his church.

BTW ... imitation is indeed the sincerest form of flattery, and as you'll note there in related YouTube videos, that original classic has been imitated many times, none of which are nearly so funny as the original.

Insurance companies find a way to deny kids with pre-existing conditions, and a Florida urologist urges Obama supporters to seek care elsewhere.

Unbelievable?  Yes, there really are wack-job doctors out there.  This one "... gets his information from the Internet".  Yes, you can believe it ... Watch This Video.