The whole idea that Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck cause extremists to be violent is pretty ridiculous if you think about it for a second. If someone is a big Glenn Beck fan, then they agree a lot with Glenn Beck, and then why would they be violent when their views get such representation in the media through Glenn Beck’s show? People aren’t going to get violent if they feel they have a voice in the media. That’s why America’s system of free speech actually help to prevent political violence. The people who might get violent are those who feel they are voiceless, who no one out there represents their views. That’s mainly crazy people. People who think Glenn Beck is a left-wing squish. People who think Harry Reid is a great politicians. Grade A psychos basically.

Now if people were successfully in getting Glenn Beck off the air, what’s the best thing that happens next? You have a large group of people now feel their views are banned from discussion? And this leads to magical happy town how? Do people think Glenn Beck fans are just going to start watching Olbermann and say, “Wow! This guy makes much more sense!”?

Anyway, my point is freedom of speech is a good thing in many ways, so be very careful about getting in its way.

Obama is planning to step up the partisanship. Just when we were all getting used to being united, Obama is going to go on the attack against his opponents who oppose his policy. So, America basically.

So that’s it, dudes; we’re pretty much screwed. Obama is taking off the kid gloves and pinning them to his jacket for safekeeping. He’s going to come at us like a hamster made of steel — unstoppable.

And he’s going to take his message directly to the people and vilify us. You may think he’s done that before with the 80 million times he’s been on TV, but this time he is serious. He has his teleprompters loaded with our destruction, and it’s just waiting for his voice to unleash it. Then public opinion will turn sharply against us, and we will be chased out of town with torches and pitchforks. That’s a big thing these days because most people don’t own either a pitchfork or a torch. They’ll have to stop at Home Depot first to buy them. That’s a dedicated mob. And an economic boon for Home Depot.

Anyway, end is nigh, so gird your loins. Also, gird whatever else you might think needs girding. Really, you can’t gird too much, so go crazy with the girding. I’d recommend the Girding for Dummies book if you find it confusing.

Gird.

James Lovelock, an environmental thinker, suggests we should suspend democracy to deal with global warming. I’m a bit worried, though, if suspending democracy to take on made up problems could be a bad thing, even if those made up problems are serious.

Okay, let’s say we suspend democracy and the government takes special measures to fight global warming, forcing its citizens to do the appease Gaia dance and buy carbon credits — whatever mumbo jumbo they think they need to declare global warming defeated. Maybe we’ll get our democracy back then, or maybe someone will declare a new made up crisis like that unicorns are dying out due to our overuse of salt. Now, no one wants unicorns to die out even if they are fictional, so we leave democracy suspended and save them. And then next thing we know we have to prepare for a leprechaun invasions and so on and so forth and we never get democracy back.

My suggestion is we put James Lovelock and other environmental thinkers into a rocket and blast them into the sun. Then the sun can turn them into superbeings who can solve all our problems. Some say the sun will burn them up, but the math I did and double-checked says it will make them superbeings. Of course, we can argue theory all day but there won’t be any real answers until we blast James Lovelock into the sun.

I don’t like it when Obama bows to foreign leaders, but I think it’s even worse when he does interpretive dance for them.

Only thing that probably hurt FOX News’s dominance would be a competing right-leaning news network.

I like how every Microsoft application has a million little icons and windows, 90% of which you’ll never use.

Charles Johnson looking for extremism reminds of Jesse Jackson looking for racism.

So do you think the twist ending to the next M. Night Shyamalan movie is that he isn’t the last Airbender?