If you don’t get this reference, I congratulate you on having a life. I hope it’s a good one and that you savor every minute of it. For the rest of us web news/political junkies, enjoy:

Wonkette is to internet satire, as Westboro Baptist is to Churches. #FailByTheMetricButtTon

Via a good read at Big Hollywood.

I’m not using Twitter much these days – more because of a lack of time, while we’re doing construction on a home addition, than anything else. But there’s a great new resource, courtesy of John Hawkins and Doug Ross: Trending Right.

John emailed:

Trending Right shows the most linked conservative stories on Twitter for each hour. So, if you want to know what’s hot on the Right, RIGHT NOW, then you read Trending Right.

Sounds good to me.

John Hawkins:

A few interesting nuggets from the poll…* The single most disliked person on the list? It was Meghan McCain who was disliked by 93.8% of the people polled.

* The two people who had the highest number of “Strongly liked” responses? Liberals might be surprised to know that the top two vote getters were Allen West and Thomas Sowell. Along the same lines, Marco Rubio tied for the most popular man on the list. But, I thought conservatives were supposed to hate Hispanic Americans?

* There were some surprises on the most unpopular list: Christine O’Donnell came in 9th and Mitt Romney was an honorable mention. Is this the guy who’s supposed to be the unstoppable establishment front runner?

* The most popular people in the poll? It was a surprising four way tie between Scott Walker, Paul Ryan, Marco Rubio, & John Roberts.

Henry Neufeld wonders: Is Civility Our Greatest Need? and concludes accuracy is more important. It’s a good point.

I know people that wouldn’t know a fact if it bit them on the butt. They know that Sarah Palin said she can’t see Alaska from her house and that Barack Obama is not an American citizen. They think that how they feel about something has equal or even greater weight than factual information. They have no idea how to assess facts, even if they manage to get past the mainstream media filter and encounter some.

Dr. Sanity is thinking along these lines:

I think we are witnessing the consequences of having the best minds of several generations systematically hobbled and and mutilated by the gurus of political correctness and moral relativity. I think that the essential nihilism of the postmodernism intellectual craze is coming to full fruition and that the decline of leadership is just one obvious symptom. Even more insidius is a steep decline in the ability to think that is coupled with a real contempt for reason, truth and objective reality.