Georgia state legislators are taking serious measures to curtail the dangerous sale of pot-flavored candy, saying it promotes use of the Devil Weed marijuana. And because this is the South, where every person’s name is a punch line, one of the prononents of the bill signed into law Wednesday was Senator Doug Stoner. MORE »

George Bush loves to campaign. He enjoys the crowd, the noise, and the competition. Flying with CNN’s Candy Crowley? Not so much. Apparently The Crowls gave Bush — and half the press corps — some weird respiratory virus in 2000. And this explains so much. [HuffPo]

Sweet Ares! We’ve been so caught up covering the conservatives’ Wars on Islamo-Fascism and Anti-Christmas and the liberals’ War on Butter Cow that we missed the most famous nebulous socio-political media war of all: The War on Halloween! Fortunately the Christian Broadcasting Network has an entire Internet section devoted to this, so we can easily play catch up right quick. (Hint: They think Lucifer is behind it.) MORE »

“I just ran into Russ Feingold in the bathroom. I can report that he does not have a wide stance, but he did appear to be munching on some reese’s pieces.” [The Capitolist]

Need to teach tolerance at your workplace? Try Diversity Beans! What the hell are those, you ask? We’ll let Jelly the Pan-African Bean explain:

What kind of horrible corporate hell of a workplace would order a bunch of gelatinous orbs to impart an idiotic lesson in dimestore multiculturalism? Why, your Department of the Interior, of course, who (according to an adamantly intolerant source close to a DoI employee) will soon be foisting the Diversity Bean upon employees at your expense ($6/lb of beans, $10/lesson plan, $17.50/candy jar, etc.). MORE »