Weekend Update - Dumb Edition

• Did you know that Barak Obama and his evil group of health care reform Democrats want to KILL OLD PEOPLE!? Oh yeah Baby, and that's why we must not let them talk about health care and we must not listen to the facts because that would just confuse us. These people are just like the Nazis, and Pol Pot, all those other evil people who killed people. Death, Dishonesty, and the GOP.


• The idiotic shock jock and Fox host Glenn Beck, who has built a career out of stoking the paranoid delusions of the right-wing fringe, managed to outdo himself last week when he accused President Obama of hating white people.


• Well, I feel slightly better about ignoring my Facebook account, ever since Archbishop Vincent Nichols, leader of the Roman Catholic Church of England and Wales stepped out from behind the drab, heavy curtain of a massive, dying religious dogma haunted by millennia of abuse and homophobia and scandal and misogyny and generally Getting it All Wrong Nearly All the Time Forever, to let the world know he is deeply concerned about kids today and their newfangled gizmongery and how it all just might be destroying social life and inviting death. Mark Morford reports.


• Mr. Obvious has been saying this for years: Organic food has no nutritional or health benefits over ordinary food, according to a major study published Wednesday. It just costs more. Oh, and tanning beds cause cancer. Thank you, Mr. Obvious.


• President Obama's poll numbers are slipping. Not happy with the way he's handling the remnants of the Bushies mess? Here's an extraordinary Frank Rich column that brings it all home.


• Here's a quote directly from Sarah Palin: The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama’s “death panel” so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their “level of productivity in society,” whether they are worthy of health care. Such a system is downright evil. There are quite a few dumb people in America, and Sarah Palin is their queen.


• Here's an interesting yet scary story by Chris Rodda about the influence of "The Family." "C Street and the Military."