David Frum is generally pretty solid, and I like his recent take on the stupid "Obama has no birth certificate" conspiracy people. "So here’s the hypothesis. Barack Obama Sr. has brought his new wife to Kenya. (A journey for which there is precisely zero documentation.) There, she bears him a child. Then — in an era before jet travel and at a time when plane fares cost many, many times more than they do now — she immediately gets on a plane from Mombasa to Nairobi, then another plane from Nairobi to Cairo, then a third from Cairo to London, then from London to Gander, Gander to maybe Chicago, Chicago to Los Angeles, Los Angeles to Honolulu. Arriving in Honolulu she presents her — what? two-week old infant? — to the authorities and asks for a birth certificate. Oh — and she also retroactively places birth announcements in the local papers." Uh-huh.
In related news, Gawker put together an interesting little cross-section of the approval/TV ratings of Fox News Channel and the Republican Party:
And speaking of lunacy, this pretty much qualifies: "Call these unpaid internships that you pay for...A company called the University of Dreams, the largest and most visible player in an industry that has boomed in recent years as internship experience has become a near-necessity on any competitive entry-level résumé...says it saw a spike in interest this year due to the downturn, as the number of applicants surged above 9,000."
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