- Stephen Colbert interviewed Laura Ingraham, who has just released an exciting new minstrel show.
- Are Democrats pushing a birther candidate to hurt a Republican?
- Dan Quayle's son Ben is running for congress, and he has rented some children.
- Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty is open to making Minnesota's official language English, which should piss off some old Norwegians somewhere up north, probably.
- In their abominable and unsurprising editorial against the Cordoba House Islamic center in lower Manhattan, the editors of the National Review smeared Imam Faisal Rauf.
- And according to CNN, the Islamic center will be "built by 9/11." Did you know that 9/11 is a place, now?
- Sharron Angle is still a nut.
- Actual real-life no-foolin' Politico column, today: "President Obama should be more endearing." Apparently he needs a nickname.
- A Republican gubernatorial candidate in Colorado has discovered that bike lanes are part of a one-world-government UN plot to control our cities. I am not joking. This is America, in 2010. Whee.
- And an Indiana Republican learned an important vocabulary lesson yesterday.
Wednesday link dump: Barebacking again
Sharron Angle's mission from God, bike lanes as world domination plot, and Ben Quayle's borrowed children
By Alex Pareene
Published August 4, 2010 11:01PM (EDT)
By Alex Pareene
Alex Pareene writes about politics for Salon and is the author of "The Rude Guide to Mitt." Email him at apareene@salon.com and follow him on Twitter @pareene
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