Daily Blend: 03/13/10 – Dancing disco-ball-men make for a good start

It would seem that a few of you (or perhaps even many) would like to see a daily link dumps feature on Preliator. Being the ever-obliging benevolent dictator that I am, I am now starting the Daily Blend: a post each morning (which is, the first post I make) with a dump of whatever interesting things I may have come across the previous day. So, here you go, in no particular order:

Verka Serduchka – ‘Dancing Lasha Tumbai’ at Eurovision 2007 finale
Verka Serduchka and his crew performing ‘Dancing Lasha Tumbai’ to represent the Ukraine at the Eurovision 2007 finale. (They finished in 2^nd place.) Go [=P] at the costumes, [xP] at the dancing, and [o.0] at the music.

The wingnuts descend upon the Texas BoE – and seriously screw things up
Having won back the Texas State Board of Education, the conservative wingnuts are quick to destroy any coherence and integrity in their education standards: the Texas Freedom Network live blogs the cranks’ decisions to leave out mentions to Thomas Jefferson and the Age of Enlightenment (which, you know, led to the whole libural democracy thing), inserts the Second Amendment into discussions about the First Amendment (as if they had anything more than fuck-all to do with each other), and better yet, votes to remove education about the the Separation of Church and State from educative standards. As Ed Brayton notes: if you have children in Texan schools, get the hell outta there.
(via Dispatches from the Culture Wars)

How Obama Can Fix the Civilian/Military Trial Problem
Ed Brayton makes the case for a scenario that might please both the right and left sides in the debate over whether alleged terrorists should be tried in civilian courts or military tribunals. He makes some good arguments and I’d be all for it – except that it’ll just never happen.

Dumbest. Political. Ad. EVAR.
Senate candidate Sue Lowden (R-Nevada) argues that because one-size-fits-all clothes are uncomfortable, ergo, healthcare reform – sorry, that’s govurnment-controlled helthcaire – is bad. And will weaken Medicare. (You know, a government-run service?) How can people get this incredibly stupid?
(via Dispatches From the Culture Wars)

Psychic drawing FAIL: Get yer mind outta the gutter
Silly accident, juvenile prank, or dirty-minded medium? Either way, she FAILs. And we laugh.

Why don’t honest journalists take on Roger Ailes and Fox News?
An excellent piece by Howell Raines, ex-chief editor at the New York Times, who slams Faux News and its chairman, Roger Ailes, for their endless hysterical anti-Obama propaganda machine and wonders why there aren’t more journalists taking their bullshit apart and exposing them as the un-journalistic cranks that they are. A fantastic read.
(via @washingtonpost)

As always, if you have any story suggestions, feel free to send them in.