Blog sprinkles

Steve Benen of the Washington Monthly:

As Krugman noted, conservatives tend not to understand that the left has no parallel ideological desires (wanting bigger government just for the sake of having bigger government). It's why they fell for the bogus Frank quote in the first place.

The left starts with a policy goal (more people with access to medical care, more students with access to college, less pollution, more Wall Street safeguards) and crafts proposals to try to complete the task. The right starts with an ideological goal (smaller government, more privatization, lower taxes) and works backwards.

Krugman himself.

If you divide twelve teabaggers by three parties, how fast will you get to five erasers, two blots, and a dammit, math is HARD?

Of course this man needs his guns!

Aliens? Aliens!!1!!:

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Genetic material pulled from a pinky finger bone found in a Siberian cave shows a new and unknown type of pre-human lived alongside modern humans and Neanderthals, scientists reported on Wednesday.

The creature, nicknamed "Woman X" for the time being, could have lived as recently as 30,000 years ago and appears only distantly related to modern humans or Neanderthals, the researchers reported.

"It really just looked like something we had never seen before," Johannes Krause of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, told a telephone briefing.

Things your grocer won't tell you.

Look at how much the Obama daughters have grown up since last year!

That was CLOSE!! A 7.2 no less...

Check out your doctor.

Asteroid will hide star tomorrow in the wee hours of the morning ... briefly.

Everybody will be having fun... until somebody yells,"He's gotta gun!"

Via Tengrain of Mock, Paper, Scissors: