Psychometer this week; Open thread

Lindsay Lohan was sentenced to 120 days in prison and 400 hours of community service for stealing a necklace, and reports indicated that she was upset about the sentence. Of course, she actually served as long as her rechristened single-name moniker "Lindsay" lasted.




Chuck Norris, the martial artist-turned-actor-turned-Internet meme-turned-wingnut has entered a new phase of his career as a regular writer on Tea Party websites. But recently, Wonkette discovered that he had been regularly plagiarizing large portions of his columns. Sadly, it seems that his intellectual honesty was not part of Walker, Texas Ranger's charm.



After staying out of the spotlight for a few months, reality show star Sarah Palin has attempted to return to the spotlight this week. First, she mocked departing CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric, against whom she still holds a grudge for that time she asked her what kind of books she reads. Then her staff took to Twitter to ask various "lamestream media" outlets why they didn't cover a Palin speech. Speaking of Twitter, she also praised Trump for "forcing" the birth certificate issue.



Oklahoma state Rep. Sally Kern has apologized for racist and sexist statements she made at a debate recently, saying she "misspoke." Seems like she's stretching the boundaries of misspeaking. "We have a high percentage of blacks in prison, and that's tragic, but are they in prison just because they are black or because they don't want to study as hard in school? I've taught school, and I saw a lot of people of color who didn't study hard because they said the government would take care of them." Maybe she should have said he had a severe migraine and didn't know what was coming out of her mouth.



Let's see if we get Pat Roberton's logic straight, as espoused by him on "The 700 Club" recently: The left is "livid" about killing babies, because they are obsessed with putting childless lesbians on "equal playing field" with heterosexual women. Okay.



The Tennessee state senate passed a bill sponsored by state Sen. Stacey Campfield that prohibits teachers from even bringing up homosexuality in any manner before ninth grade, known as the "Don't Say Gay Bill." Thanks to Sen. Campfield, as far as Tennessee classrooms are now concerned, gay people don't exist between kindergarten and eighth grade.



Thanks to a provision by Rep. Cliff Stearns (R-FL), 9/11 first responders will soon have to prove that they are not terrorists before they receive medical care. We can only assume Mr. Stearns has gone off his meds, because no one can be that callous.



A week after Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer honorably vetoed a bill asking presidential candidates to show their birth certificate and another that would allow guns on college campuses, she returned to her insane roots by signing into law an official Arizona state gun. Yes, that Arizona. You know, the site of a bloody massacre that left nine dead and thirteen wounded, including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, only months ago, now has a state gun. How tasteful.



Donald Trump's reign as the king of crazy continues. First, he proudly took credit for the release of Obama's birth certificate, despite the fact that its very existence should have embarrassed him and his race-baiting crusade. Then, he implied that Obama's ethnicity alone got him accepted into Columbia and Harvard Law, and demanded to see his academic records. Finally, he made some policy commitments as a would-be presidential candidate, including a vow to curse in diplomatic meetings with China. And we thought drumming up some of the most hateful and heated discourse in modern American politics simply to attract ratings for "The Apprentice " was wacko.