Right Wing Nation

from the UK, these days, anyway:

Although there are still those who argue over the US and “former UK” definitions of figures such as a billion and trillion, according to Michael there is now basic agreement that a trillion is a thousand billion and a billion is a thousand million.

“When you hear a politician, business leader of economist using the word trillion, they are talking about a number with 12 zeros,” he said.

Though it does say “former UK” definition, so maybe they came to their senses some time ago and we just didn’t notice.

Hat tip to New Editor–you just can’t make this crap up. You saw the results of that poll, right? This one:

Democrats in America are evenly divided on the question of whether George W. Bush knew about the 9/11 terrorist attacks in advance. Thirty-five percent (35%) of Democrats believe he did know, 39% say he did not know, and 26% are not sure.

But in a statement no doubt meant to make readers swallow their dentures, Bill “I just wanna be able to take drugs and screw hookers” Maher said:

isn’t one of the main selling points of the Democratic Party that it’s relatively nut-free?

And in other news, 67% of Democrats and 98% of Libertarians report being abducted by space aliens. 54% reported “grey” aliens, 42% reported “reptilian” aliens, and 4% were too traumatized to remember. 89% of all Democrats abducted remember being probed in one or more orifices.

Can we question their sanity yet?

She’ll make you forget all about Kathleen Battle. Here she is singing Zerbinetta’s aria, Grossmächtige Prinzessin, from Ariadne auf Naxos, one of the greatest coloratura arias ever written. Ay-may-zing. Karl Böhm, Kleines Festspielhaus, Salzburg, 21 August 1965. In two parts.

Hat tip to Joanne Jacobs for this–and you’d better be sitting down, with your smelling salts and heart medication nearby. A school principal says:

“The more you fail, the more money they throw at you,” he said. “We’re filthy rich; I don’t want any more of your money. Send me quality teachers.”

I need to lie down for a minute. I can feel the blood rushing to my head.

Rusty Shackleford: “I do not think that word means what you think it means.”

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