Weekend Update - April 19th

• "Skimming the ocean of news effluvia, trying to make sense of the beauty and the pain, the sacred and the profane, whipsawing between the agony and the ecstasy like a bipolar ferret in God's own meth lab of love." Who else but Mark Morford?


• Texans are beginning to talk of seceding from the Union. Personally I'm all for it. That would mean no one from Texas could ever be President again. And that would be a plus for all of us, wouldn't it? Twitters From Texas.


• One of those damning Bush memos on torture says “The close monitoring of each detainee for any signs that he is at risk of experiencing severe physical pain reinforces the conclusion that the combined use of interrogation techniques is not intended to inflict such pain.” In other words, if a doctor is present while it's going on, it's not torture. Bushit.


• Frank Rich comments on that sickening anti-gay YouTube film with his column entitled "The Bigots' Last Hurrah."


• We see Fox News got it's "tea party." The signs at the April 15 rallies: "Obamanation." "Hang Em High!" "Show us your real birth certificate." The creepiest declared: "The American Tax Payers are the the Jews for Obama's ovens." These are some scary weirdos.