Sometimes you wonder if pollsters ask themselves “Is this an insulting thing to ask people?” before dialing up the opinionated American electorate. But no, not insulting, just revealing: “Given a choice of three options, just 24% of voters can correctly identify the cap-and-trade proposal as something that deals with environmental issues. A slightly higher number (29%) believe the proposal has something to do with regulating Wall Street while 17% think the term applies to health care reform. A plurality (30%) have no idea.” Hmm, looks to us like a majority (76%) “have no idea.” The other 24% are just queers. [Rasmussen via Yglesias]

Here’s the fourth paragraph in today’s offering from New York Times “lightning rod conservative” columnist Bill Kristol: “The Siegessäule is an impressive structure (especially if you have a militaristic bent). It’s a large fluted sandstone column on a base of polished red granite, topped by a golden statue of winged Victory. Completed in 1873, it commemorates Prussia’s victories in the previous decade over Denmark, Austria and France. The column was lengthened and relocated to its present site in 1939.” Well now you know more about the large cock in the middle of Berlin from which Barack Obama will deliver his Speech this week. This is what Kristol does to us. MORE »

Mitt Romney (who was governor of Massachusetts, which is right next door to New Hampshire) always knew that the New Hampshire primary would be an uphill battle. See, New Hampshire (which also shares a media market with Massachusetts, where Mitt served as governor) is John McCain’s turf because he totally won it in 2000 and Mitt (who was governor of Massachusetts after McCain’s victory of almost a decade ago) is a virtual unknown up there. That’s why he might not win, you see, because he’s a virtual unknown in New Hampshire (which borders the state he so unobtrusively governed for 4 years) compared to the other candidates and not because people don’t like him up there. But it’s so exciting just to be considered, for this “guy from Detroit,” since, you know, his dad was governor there before Mitt lived in Salt Lake City and ran the Olympics and then lived and governed in Massachusetts.

Oh, hey, a new “Obama Girl” video, this time pointlessly about The Troops or something, plus a bunch of whores in bikinis and absolute shit music, hooray for America. (Iran, we’re over here!) [MySpace]