Post-Election Republican Numbers Are Down And Positions Are Extreme and Behavior Resembles Other Species In Decline

A new poll finds that Republicans are taking the election results hard, and often weirdly. For starters, 49% believe ACORN stole the election for Obama, even though ACORN doesn't exist anymore. Only about half want to remain in our blessed union, and only a third have an opinion about Bowles/Simpson - a number only slightly higher than those with an opinion about Panetta/Burns, which also doesn't exist. Nobody knows or likes Grover Norquist. And the number of those claiming the GOP as their spiritual home is down 5%. May they go to their rest in peace. Update : Rachel has more on right-wing wackiness.

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Mon Dieu: A Surreal Silver Spandexed Call To Bigotry

Ingenious French opponents of gay marriage have taken to the streets to insist that parenting means "un papa, une maman" by staging supremely strange flash mobs that feature a spandexed dude with wings flitting between the papas and mamans to represent... uh, actually, we're not sure what. But it sure is entertaining.

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