If you wanna make it, Twinkle while you shake it. If you wanna grind it, Wait till you refined it. If you wanna stump it, Bump it with a trumpet! Get yourself a gimmick and you too, Can be a star! – Stephen Sondheim’s lyrics from the musical, Gypsy See the full-size FLASH animation here.

I ran across this delightful adult toy this morning as I was working at my day job – which is porn: He’s called Beatin’ Barack and if you go to the Pipedreams site, you can see him in “action”. If you click the pic above, you can see him in his NSFW plastic glory.

Doug Hoffman as Buffoon Playing a Lute by Frans Hals (1623-1624) So? Will the conservatives win big? Will the media succeed in painting this small smattering of contests as a “referendum on Obama?”

I’m not familiar with “how things work” @ online social media thingy, LinkedIn. Perhaps they don’t allow members to update posted resumes without paying teh munnies. Maybe Lady Miss Governor Sarah Palin just plumb forgot she already posted her resume in 2008. Regardless, while the newsie types make a hubbub over her most recent posting, [...]

That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full Of direst cruelty! make thick my blood; Stop up the access and passage to remorse, That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between The effect and it! Michelle Bachmann from the [...]

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