Picture of the day

Yes, the tea baggers have been a boon to comedy. And quasi-racist right wing movements. And probably the whole militia thing. But mostly comedy. So, with the passage of health care and President Obama's ascension to God King status, the fade into the sunset having dipped their last tea bag and faxed their last noose.

But in a bid to memorialize these people who didn't seem to understand anything about what their own movement was allegedly about --namely taxes, health care, the working of representative government, and large swaths of the Constitution-- a person named Pargon on Flickr has stepped up with a set of photos they call Teabonics: the tea baggers' various and sundry placard misspellings. Enjoy.

She word good

Minnesota's shame, Michele Bachmann, is not known for her intelligence. From rallying against filling out the Census until it was explained to her that if Minnesota lost any people in the Census population tabulations that her Congressional district would be the first to go, to her continually retarded (RAHM~!) proclamations regarding health care, to the litany of conspiracy theories she believes in that make Glenn Beck look well adjusted by comparison, Bachmann is a treasure trove of hilarity.

But in all the mockery we and all decent society does of her, we at least assumed she knew how to spell or at least hire people who knew how to spell. We were giving her too much credit.

"Michele Bachmann - Amaricas Congress Woman" reads the search banner for Bachmann's campaign Website"

For those of you playing at home, "America" and "Congresswoman" are the preferred nomenclature.

I'm just surprised. I thought someone that spent so much of her time railing against imaginary abuses of the Constitution and the American people, she would at least be able to spell America. That's a major demerit in the flag eating sectors of the conservative movement. Hell, spelling "America" is the first test they give you to make sure you ain't a Russkie infiltrator.

If you can afford it, please send a spelling book or at least some phonics flash cards to Bachmann's office. If they make one with an eagle crying in front of the twin towers on the cover, that's the one to buy. Please help her out, she is an elected official after all.

Word of the day

La·od·i·ce·an [lay-oh-diss-see-an]

adj.

1. Of or relating to Laodicea.

2. Indifferent or lukewarm especially in matters of religion.
3. A word that was used once, when it was created, and then never used again until the 2009 National Spelling Bee.
4. A word that is apparently easier to spell than "palatschinken."

n.

A native or inhabitant of Laodicea.

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[Adj., sense 2, in reference to Revelation 3:14-16.]