From the "Fun facts" file...

...via Tbogg...

Top ten states for divorce:

1. Oklahoma
2. Arkansas
3. Alaska
4. Alabama
5. Kentucky
6. Nevada
7. Mississippi
8. Georgia
9. Tennessee
10. Arizona

Quote of the day,

Jennifer Granholm, former governor of Michigan...

"If you want to have a strong country, you have to make things."

Yep.

Once again...

...a random ten. I like the way those three 'town' tunes pop up in order...seems to make it mean something somehow...

Grayson Capps - Highway 42
Tom Paxton - Sully's Pail
Warren Zevon - Empty Hearted Town
Rick Nelson - Lonesome Town
Nancy Sinatra - Sugar Town
Dillard & Clark - Train Leaves Here This Morning
Buddy Holly - True Love Ways
Buffalo Springfield - Sit Down I Think I Love You
Chris Isaak - How's The World Treating You
Stephen Sills - Ballad Of Hollis Brown

On the other hand...

...go Newt go!



Obama
100.0% probability of winning
Mean of 416 electoral votes

Gingrich
0.0% probability of winning
Mean of 122 electoral votes

Fun facts.

Matt Osborne reminds us...

Newt Gingrich is the only Speaker of the House ever to be sanctioned in office.

Chart of the day.

Juan Cole got it here...


Feel any safer?

Hoocoodanode.

Newt's a liar.

From the "Me too" file.

Warren Buffett, whose straw is longer than yours or mine or yours and mine added up...

"I want a government that is responsive to the people who got the short straw in life.”

Me too.

Speech...

...or folk music?

Folk music. See ya' later...

Occupy the courts.

H/T Bluegal.

Once again...

...what digby said...

When the authorities find themselves groping a US Senator's crotch in public without any suspicion of criminal activity, something's gone wrong.