• Sesame Street beefs on FOX? Oscar the Grouch lives in a trashcan because he is a dirty Maoist. [Gateway Pundit]
• Barack Obama > Moderate Democrats > Barney Frank’s Dining Room Table > Moderate Republicans > Michael Steele. [Matt Yglesias]
• The best part of last night was when voters told the Gays they couldn’t get married. Remember the Maine! And suck a fat one, Rachel Maddow! [The Corner]
• A Hoffman poll watcher had his tires slashed by ACORN, but “local police are not willing to confirm it was a tire slashing.” Ha, typical! More foul play from the conniving Democrats. [RedState]
• “The GOP renaissance has begun,” said the cow blocking the train. “Moo.” [TPM]

• Yesterday happened! Recall its winners: Bloomberg, Owens, Christie, various Others. [New York Times]
• It was also yesterday in Virgina too, where Bob McDonnell defeated Creigh Deeds and is therefore the state’s new governor. [Washington Post]
• The state of Maine poured rock salt on gay marriage and voted to up the medical marijuana usage. [WSJ]
• Today is the 30th anniversary of the US Embassy takeover/hostage thing in Tehran, but if today’s mass demonstrations showed anything, it’s that people don’t even need any hostages to yell about hating America. [CNN]
• Bernanke and Friends are likely to decline raising the interest rate. [AP]
• An Afghan soldier literally went rogue and just cold killed five British soldiers with a machine gun inside a police checkpoint. No cheeky Nation polemic is expected to follow. [Times Online]

The latest anti-gay ad in Maine, produced by a paranoid schizophrenic on meth, features random documents with bureaucratic titles and pulled phrases flying around the screen at warp speed, to Warn us. The gay teachers in Maine are all going to come out and then force the gay children — you know, the quiet little boys who play with dolls in the sandbox at recess — to come out with them. MORE »

Looking forward to this WSJ article, based on this epic thing. Can you imagine how many votes Olympia Snowe will win for life if her staffers go neighborhood to neighborhood giving each household a bag of rock salt for the winter? [Twitter]

Alan Grayson! Yes! Who even is this guy, and yet, ALAN GRAYSON. Watch Alan Grayson carry on for like four minutes about how much he hates Olympia Snowe and her whole stupid state. He’s like, “Maine? Hardly!” Seriously, he basically says this. MORE »

Whoa hey gay marriage in Maine now too! While both chambers of the Maine legislature had passed the bill, no one knew if Gov. John Baldacci would sign it because, you know, gays, culture war, wedge issues, etc. But then this morning he did sign it! He explained: “In the past, I opposed gay marriage while supporting the idea of civil unions. I have come to believe that this is a question of fairness and of equal protection under the law, and that a civil union is not equal to civil marriage.” And that’s about all there is to say. [HuffPo]

Whoa hey how’d the Entire News Media miss this one? Especially considering the main things we all jabber about, these days, are stock prices and whatever Jon Stewart said about Jim Cramer …. Anyway, get out your duct tape because a certified American Nazi was building a “dirty bomb” which he apparently planned to explode at Obama’s Inauguration. All the radioactive and bomb-making shit was in his house — you know, the one with the Nazi Flag, in Maine — and his plans were moving along just fine until his wife shot the motherfucker dead, the end? MORE »

Oh here this will cheer you up or bore you: John McCain does an interview with Maine reporter Rob Caldwell and basically does not answer any questions. Here is a direct quote from the 4:24 mark in the video (which we did not embed because the HTML was such utter garbage with an autoplay feature that could not be killed): “What experience does [Sarah Palin] have in the field of national security?” Answer: “Energy.” [WCSH6.com]

Barack Obama beat Hillary Clinton 59%-40% in Maine, which puts him maybe in the lead or tied or behind Hillary Clinton in whatever sort of delegates you like to talk about. More important than these five victories in a row — did you forget the U.S. Virgin Islands? — was Obama’s victory in the crucial “spoken word performance” category of the Grammy Awards, which apparently happened tonight. Obama’s passionate reading of “My Book Called Hope” beat Bill Clinton breathily reading a list of his presidential pardons. [NY Times]

Ha ha, did you think there might be a single weekend off after the deeply unsatisfying Super Tuesday Spectacle? Saturday features five more contests, including caucuses in Kansas, Nebraska and Washington state, a full primary election in Louisiana, some kind of “pretend to vote” conference in the U.S. Virgin Islands, and finally a Sunday caucus for the Maine Democrats. We’ll have weekend updates as polls close. [TIME/The Page]

Ron Paul’s “Maine Strategy,” previously unmentioned by the Main Stream Media because they hate happiness, is finally kicking into gear. Ron Paul has waited, and now will win both nominations — because he just might win the Maine caucuses this weekend. MORE »