Terra Incognita

So two conservative film makers dressed up as a pimp and prostitute and went into ACORN offices and asked for assistance, with the pimp mentioning that he had a made up honduran child prostitution ring.

As a result of the anger, Congress voted to cut off all federal funds from going to ACORN (which might be unconstitutional) and while the anger is justified, there are other companies getting money from the government still that carry out worse crimes than pretending to set up a fake honduran child-prostitution ring (like murder, or buttshots with vodka).

Also, ACORN is planning to sue the filmmakers because one of the offices they walked into and pulled this stunt was in Baltimore.  Unlike most states, which require one-person consent for electronic surveillance, Maryland requires that all parties consent.  I wonder if anyone’s mentioned that this is the same law that Linda Tripp broke when she recorded Monica Lewinsky’s telephone calls and turned them over to Ken Starr on the condition that she be given immunity to that law.

David Carradine (Bill from “Kill Bill”) was found dead in his Bangkok hotel room a few days back and his death was initially ruled a suicide.  Investigators are now looking into the possibility that it was as a result of autoerotic asphyxia.

George Carlin talked about this in his comedy special “Life is Worth Losing” but essentially what it is is cutting off the air supply to the brain right at the moment of of climaxing which is supposed to make it a million times better (apparently).

Carradine may have died that way, but he’s not the first.  British Conservative MP Stephen Milligan was found wearing nothing but a pair of women’s stockings.

The first h1n1 virus in D.C. shows up at George Washington University.  The head of the University’s health department is named…Pierre Vigilance.

Pierre Vigilance…Vigilante!

Lots of reddit people are long-time fans of Chuck Norris who are watching his descent into right-wing loonyville with horror that a childhood hero is now one of THEM.

Via Ezra Klein’s twitter:

Chuck Norris notes that home schooling was outlawed by the Soviet state in 1919, by Hitler in 1938, and by Communist China in 1949.

And it’s still legal here.  What’s your point, Chuck?

So one of the planes used as Air Force One flew over Manhattan this morning.  Buildings were evacuated, people ran into the streets fearing that a jumbo jet was about to hit something.  It was part of the Air Force flying the building close to landmarks to get the plane in some photos with famous landmarks like the Statue of Liberty and stuff.  The FAA authorized it, the NYPD was told about it, but they weren’t allowed to tell the people in the buildings about it.  They also didn’t tell mayor Michael Bloomberg.

Louis Caldera of the White House’s military office took responsibility (earning Keith Olbermann’s “Worst Person in the World”), saying that it was an “uncool” thing to do and that someone should’ve made an announcement.

New Yorkers are understandably pissed off.

As a woman eats 51 of the world’s hottest chili peppers – the legendary Bhut Jolokia – and rubs 25 in her eyes.  All for a space in the Guinness Book of World Records.

I agree with Gothamist.  The snuggie phenomenon has gone way too far with this.

It’s one thing to report on how the fed is monetizing debt by printing money.  It’s another to do this: