In the comments here, 4of7 [High Praise!] said:

I didn’t know then that the One-Time-Emergency-Stimulus would become the new baseline for all Federal spending (Thanks to Harry Reid and the democrap controlled Senate never submitting another budget from that time forward.)

They’re going to have to dig a new level in hell for this kind of betrayal.

For those not familar with Dante’s levels of hell, here’s a handy picture:

And at the very bottom of it all, you’ve got Obama saying “it will probably take another year or two to fully dig our way out of this hole.”

First we have the woman yelling “no to green capitalism!”

Which she’s half-right on, since the “green” part is just so much lint in capitalism’s very profitable navel.

Sadly, though, she’s actually protesting the “capitalism” part, yammering on about how R+20 is just “another stage of capitalist accumulation”

Hippies are so cute when they’re being stupid.

Now for the fun part – a more or less random picture of the protest:

Without even straining, I’m counting 5 pairs of designer sunglasses.

As for Miss Look-At-Me-I’m-Indigenous!, I’m guessing that’s Chinese lead paint covering her child-labor-built souvenir maraca.

Say, is that a plastic bottle of Gatorade she’s looking at?

I just got in the mail Monica Crowley’s surprisingly vulgar new book What the (Bleep) Just Happened?: The Happy Warrior’s Guide to the Great American Comeback (important people like me don’t buy books; they just send them to us). Anyway, I thought I should mention it as I like Monica Crowley and she was nice enough to have me on her radio show to promote my book (which is getting a nice boost from hers thanks to Amazon’s “Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought” feature). It looks like a fun book, and it goes over exactly how Obama has been ruining our country.

I’m also reading A Clash of Kings: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Two. Despite how long those Game of Thrones books are, they’re surprisingly fast-paced. And I like that Joffery character; he seems to know what he’s doing. I’m sure he’ll sort everything out.

SarahK is reading the Mistborn series which I recommended to her a while ago. She got halfway through the prologue and decided it was too boring. Having nothing to read recently, she gave it another try and has done pretty much nothing but read them and is already on the third book.

Buttercup is reading Hop on Pop. It’s very cute.

From James Taranto:

OK, I have a brilliant idea. Romney should consider Obama for vice president. That way he’d finally get vetted.

I saw a lot of comedians on Twitter suddenly get angry at Adam Carolla. Apparently, he said that women aren’t funny. Actually, he said that women are less funny on average. While he listed some women he thought are really funny, he said there’s a lower standard for women. Basically, if you had a man who was as funny as Joy Behar, we’d have never heard of him (actually, I still don’t quite get why I know who Behar is).

Is this true? Is there a sort of humor affirmative action where we have lower standard to call women funny when compared to men? When I think of really funny comedians, by far most are men — but maybe there are lots of funny women but they just don’t consider a career in comedy as often as men would. This kind of remind me of those statements so often about how conservatives aren’t funny — but, of course, that doesn’t cause a knee-jerk backlash of righteous indignation.

And if men are funnier, why is that? Probably to help pick up women. They always say they like a good sense of humor. It certainly helped me. Do men like a sense of humor in women, though? I think we just mainly like them to laugh at our jokes. And look pretty and smell nice.

Anyway, I will try to teach Buttercup the secrets of humor and we’ll see how it goes. I think she has great potential, but she’s mostly into physical comedy right now.

So the press said Romney wasn’t even looking into Rubio as a VP candidate, but the Romney campaign says they are vetting him. If they are looking into Rubio, I wonder what they’ll find?

“Hey, Rubio, you sure spend a lot of time in the comment section of YouTube calling people gay.”

“Well, a lot of people on YouTube are gay and don’t know it. What do you want me to say?”

Rubio does seem like an interesting choice being quite conservative and well-liked by the Tea Party, but he also seems like an obvious pander to Hispanics when Romney doesn’t seem to want to even talk about the immigration issue. A lot of sources say that Romney is focusing on Tim Pawlenty and Rob Portman — i.e., he wants to make the most boring ticket ever. That might be a good strategy. After how things have worked out with the exciting celebrity Obama, people may really want an extremely boring, safe ticket with no surprises.

Romney/Pawlenty 2012: Boring. Competent. Also boring.

Romney/Portman 2012: As extremist as mayo on white bread.

So, what do you think? Should Romney play it safe or pick an exciting running mate? I still think Mr. T would really shake things up.