Employees of the National Science Foundation are the luckiest people alive, because apparently they make buckets of money to look at porn all day, i.e., “promote the progress of science.” Or so says Chuck Grassley, an Iowa senator obsessed with two things: government waste and toilet seats. Apparently for a while there NSF employees spent their days happily downloading pornography to government servers, until eventually some buzzkills got wise and installed filtering software of some sort. Grassley wants to make sure these terrible pornographers’ days of looking at porn instead of promoting science are behind them before they get more bailout money. Grassley is a terrible prude. [Politico]

The Code Pink liberals held their “throw shoes at Bush” reenactment yesterday, yay. A small but dedicated crowd went and threw shoes at a plaster Bush zombie. But then something far worse appeared, from the “neo-liberal” Washington Post newspaper: DANA MILBANK, with a cameraman, reporting on the fun for his next grating “local color” column. It’s hard to express how smug Dana Milbank is in this video, even by his standards. Don’t torture yourself! Just skip to the end when the Pinks start throwing shoes at Milbank instead, until he starts whining. [More protest videos at Nikolas Schiller's]