Just Watch Your Car For New Dings

Well, the General Assembly has authorized the issuance of new car licenses for the TEA Party. Its good that folks want to display their support. Always nice to be able to pinpoint the friendlies, as it were.

However, recognition of your political and philosophical leanings also tend to fall under the jurisdiction of the "Law of Unintended Consequences"; to wit, there are stupid, cruel, vindictive people walking the planet, wasting valuable air and space. They tend to react stupidly and destructively when confronted with a sign or symbol indicating that the vehicle belongs to someone on the extreme right. And while a footprint in the dent on the hatch door of my Durango directly underneath my Protest Warrior bumper sticker is anecdotal, the vehicle was parked on Constitution Ave during a counter-protest.

So be prepared for an increase in "parking lot dings" after you hang that shiny new TEA Party license plate on your car.

Catching Up With The Hammer

The Daily Grind

BY Mary Katharine Ham

The guy who wrote the Arizona law explains what's in it.

I have no doubt his tremendous charisma will overcome this obstacle.

The SWAT team has the Tea Partiers under control, everyone.

Virginia man forced to get new vanity plate after CAIR deems the one honoring his favorite NASCAR drivers coded hate.

Navy to the Gulf oil spill.

If anything ever begged for Photoshopping, this is it.

The regressive anti-smoking lobby hates poor people.

The Boy Scouts now offer a gamer badge.

“In other words, raising taxes on the rich or corporations, closing tax loopholes, eliminating wasteful or low-priority programs, and prohibiting earmarks simply won’t be enough.’’