When you get bored tonight watching old white people getting even older, hop on over to Think Progress and watch this fabulous video of Queen Dyke Rachel Maddow breaking down the whole Sarah Palin thing in a more rational and concise way than has been done on any network thus far (thus of course consigning it to some crazy librul blog). I swear she makes me what to get out my Indigo Girls CDs and join a softball league.

Maddow on Palin: ‘It is becoming less likely by the hour that she will be McCain’s nominee’ [Think Progress]

And of course in Florida.  Who put out the hit?  We still have her records, right? [Chicago Tribune]

A very dear friend of mine works for the Voice of America, which broadcasts radio and television programming into what we might generously call countries with issues. He focuses on Central Africa. Last week, short a political commentator, he asked me to do it and what with me not having a real job, I was free. Since then, I’ve likely been dubbed into Kinyarwandan and probably broadcast in Rwanda! But, for your listening pleasure, I tracked the original audio (sound check and all, apologies: I didn’t know how to cut that part out) to some pictures of myself and my good friend. Further apologies are probably necessary, as it’s completely free of vulgarity.

Did everyone have a nice Easter? I got to eat some ham and green bean casserole and some chocolate, so I was pretty happy with mine. A slightly less happy Easter was probably had by six members of the “Catholic Schoolgirls Against the War”, a fun and sexy group of young protesters who disrupted the start of Easter mass at Holy Name Cathedral in Chicago by decrying the Iraq War and squirting themselves (and some worshippers) with stage blood in the aisle of the church.

Mike Harding, a friend of the protesters, described them as a group of students and local activists who do good deeds for their community, such as teach classes, plant gardens and distribute food to the poor. If the demonstrators’ actions ruined some people’s Easter, then perhaps they’ll have more empathy for Iraqi citizens who have seen their holiest days marred by violence, said Harding, 21.

I have two distinct thoughts about this. Let’s discuss.

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Housefraus all over the Midwest got a shock this morning when Jane Fonda let slip a naughty word on The Today Show.

Jane, Jane, Jane. I realize you are being forced to talk to Meredith Vieira, but still. Try to show a little restraint.

Jane Fonda Uses Vulgar Slang on ‘Today’ [Chicago Tribune]

So, right wing Republican (and soon-to-retire) Congressman Dave Weldon has a daughter, Katie who has gotten a bunch of flak today but deserves a little credit. Katie was out quite early this morning at a bar called The Country Saloon in West Melbourne, Florida, which a tipster reliably informs us “is a country honky tonk where fightin’ and cheatin’ are de riguer,” making it totally my kinda place. At about 1:40 this morning, some dude pissed her off, and she hit him in the face with her shoe, causing him to bleed and then cry like a bitch and call the cops. Katie was arrested and charged with battery, which was soooo obviously undeserved because you know that dick had to have been asking for it if our girl was going to take off her motherfucking shoe in a dive bar parking lot AND get blood on it. So, Katie, if you are coming to visit your dad sometime before he retires, you give me a call and I’ll wear some shoes I don’t have to unbuckle and then the dirtbags around here had better watch their fucking mouths. [Politico, CBS]