Bush On Steroids Plus Gun Powder and Horse Semen

Lots on Rick Perry: The more we know, the scarier it gets. His 10 most bizarre ideas here ; his fondness for execution, including of the innocent, here ; takedowns of his Texas economic un-miracle here and here; his plan for anarchy by repealing all regulations, including those that don't exist, here ; and in More , Jon Stewart takes a Lex-Luther-tinged look. "In Texas, we do not hold high expectations for the Governor's office. It's mostly been occupied by crooks, dorks and the comatose." - Molly Ivins

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Hopper Lives, and Alas Is Selling T-Shirts

A new ad campaign has plastered the handsome, grizzled face of Dennis Hopper around New York and L.A. in the name of selling Vans sneakers and t-shirts, a project he was apparently working on before he died in 2010. Ouch.

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TSA Will Now Chat You Down, Not Feel You Up

Under an Israeli-modelled pilot program kicking off at Boston's Logan Airport, TSA agents will chat with passengers using behavior detection techniques - looking for shifty eyes, gulping, sweating - to ferret out "intent to cause a problem." Some critics worry TSA agents, not always rocket scientists, may indulge in racial or ethnic profiling , but that would never happen, right?

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