Haha, so, funny story… it’s colder than a witch’s you-know-what and it’s all ice/snow/sleeting/somethingorother outside. No one has purchased a new television machine for us. Or Lonesome Dove on DVD. And Rick is probably off somewhere sitting in his fancy steam room or writing about how boring MetroTV is.

In other news, have you seen that fancy Mitch McConnell ad we screengrabbed and have here on the left? It’s all over the internets these days. Unfortunately, the site the ad points to is dead.

Oh, look, we’re cry “babbies” because Daniel Mongiardo merely disagrees with us. Never mind that he, oh, lead the fight for Senate Bill 245 and then pressured legislators to sign pledges that they not only wouldn’t support gay rights but that they, themselves, weren’t gay. Yeah, it’s merely a “disagreement” that we’d be bothered by someone legislating hatred and inequality. It’s merely a disagreement that we’d take issue with someone going crazy after a serious case of gay panic. [Page One]

To hear Southern Republicans tell the story, the financial burdens facing Detroit’s automakers are self-made troubles to be settled by the laws of Adam-Smith capitalism. But foreign auto makers won billions in government subsidies. While Republicans tried like hell to kill more than 3 million jobs over some political bitterness. [Washington Independent]

Doesn’t this make you feel better about everything? Kentucky’s education spending surpasses all other states in the South-Central region. What! Our children is learning! Don’t hold your breath, it’ll only take a few minutes for the Bluegrass “Institute” to draft some paper on the advantages of giving Frank Simon control of education. [Mark Hebert]

First Lady Jane Beshear will be in Louisville tomorrow participating in the Toys for Tots program. Since she’ll be in our neighborhood, I guess it’s only appropriate that we show up and take pictures of her good deed. So, Jane, here’s a message for you: a known homosexual (and others) may be there lookin at the firemenz (okay, so not really, because they do nothing for us) and just cold takin pictures of you being all helpy with the poor kids. [Press Release]

Idol for all current Republicans like homosexual sympathizer and known Apple follower Brad Cummings and everyone affiliated with Mike Duncan, Newt Gingrich, has penned a letter to Duncan calling him, you know, stupid, for his ignorant attempts to tie Barack Obama to Rod Blagojevich. Poor, brave Mike Duncan getting the shaft from the godfather. [Politico]

Dubya may not have been hit by those fancy flying Iraqi shoes. But Dana Perino was injured during the scuffle. Nice black eye she’s got. Schadenfreude! [HuffPo Pictures]

Now we know why that 8664 study was mysteriously canned. So information could be doctored or whatever, right? “Put simply, they didn’t study 8664, and therefore their conclusions are invalid for a comparison to 8664,” spokesman Joe Burgan said. If the state wanted to seriously study the group’s plan, “they should have consulted 8664 and its engineers rather than reading the Web site.” [C-J]

Was the Bush Misadministration using illegally obtained information to take down political enemies? Did it take down Elliot Spitzer because his office was investigating Bernie Madoff back in 2006? Interesting. Verrrrry interesting. [Crooks & Liars]