This is what I call class

A Louisana woman traded two children that she was taking care of for a cockatoo. Apparently being a trucker made it difficult to care for the children, but not for a bird. The third sibling went to a different home. No word on what she got in return, but one hopes that it was, at the very least, a clue.

CNN: Woman answers ad for bird by offering kids as payment

An afternoon in the life of an unemployed nerd

It suddenly struck me how far I've descended into dorkdom. I'm sitting on my couch flipping between (muted) MSNBC and CNN (in my defense, Obama already finished talking), reading sundry blogs (political of course) waiting for last night's Daily Show to come on. Seriously. Is this sad? Or am I ascending into some kind of nerd nirvana? Or should I just start drinking now?

I'm actually embarrassed for Repubs right now

From TMPDC:

Tonight, we tell America: we know the past, we know we did wrong. My bad, said Steele.

In response to Michael Steele's hip hop speech, crazy Michelle Bachman responded "You be da man!"

I almost wish I were at CPAC right now to witness, firsthand, the hilarity of GOP swirling down the drain of irrelevance.