Gore Vidal 1925-2012

The man who said of Roman Polanski's 13-year-old rape victim,

“I really don’t give a [expletive]. Look am I going to sit and weep every time a young hooker feels as though she’s being taken advantage of?”

has died.

Texas RINO Massacre

Not only is Tea Party / Club for Growth / Ron Paul candidate Ted Cruz beating establishment RINO David Dewhurst in the Senate primary, but RINO incumbents are getting thumped in early results all over the state legislature races.

State Senate District 25: Donna Campbell over incumbent Jeff Wentworth.

State Representative District 59: J.D. Sheffield over committee chairman Sid Miller.

State Representative District 11: Travis Clardy over party-switcher Chuck Hopson.

State Representative District 43: Bill Wilson over incumbent and party-switcher J.M. Lozano.

It feels good to be a teabagger!

More background on the races here.

Do you feel lucky, punk?

Our friend McDanger posts on the safety of small airplanes.

Greenspan's Body Count: Daryl Benway and Abigail Benway

Alan Greenspan is 86 years old, yet still he adds to his legacy as one of the most prolific killers in history.

Today's episode of Greenspan's Body Count comes from Oxford, Massachusetts:

A 9-year-old boy is fighting for his life after a weekend shooting in Massachusetts at the hands of his father, who police say also killed his 7-year-old daughter before committing suicide.

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Authorities say the children's father, 41-year-old Daryl Benway, separated from his wife just weeks before opening fire Saturday at the family's home in Oxford, 60 miles south of Boston.

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The late 7-year-old Abigail Benway was to start second grade soon at Chaffee Elementary School.

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Friends and neighbors tell The Boston Globe that Daryl Benway recently lost his job and feared foreclosure.

Greenspan's Body Count stands at 227.

Fool's gold at the Olympics

The dollar isn't the only thing that's been debased in today's global farce of an economy.

There is only 1.34% gold content in 2012 Olympic gold medals.  That's six grams of gold, less than 1/5 of a troy ounce.

The U.S. is expected to win around 38 gold medals.  That means you can go to your local coin shop tomorrow, pick up eight gold coins for about $13,000, and you'll have more gold than the entire U.S. Olympic team.  That's less than the price of a low-end new car.  England spent billions on hosting the Olympics, and they can't even honor the winners with real gold?

For that matter, if you don't already have more gold than the U.S. Olympic team, you're way behind schedule.  What the heck have you been doing all these years you've been reading W.C. Varones?

Do you have your share?

Dreams from My Father: 100% Income Tax

Barack Obama Sr.: Tax rich at 100% of income.

The apple doesn't fall far from the tree, huh?

Federally funded Batman massacre

National Institute of Health gave Aurora theater murderer $26,000.

That's on top of tuition -- "walking around money," if you will. Say, that will buy a lot of guns and ammo!

Your tax dollars at work.

Hey, maybe Aurora's just the latest incarnation of Fast and Furious!