One of many questions you won't hear answered at a Town Hall meeting on account of all the shouting:

If an obscure provision in one of the health care bills for federally-funded "end-of-life counseling sessions" (originally proposed, incidentally, in 2007 by a Republican U.S. Senator from Georgia) is really a Sekrit Obama Plan to fund "death panels," then why does one of the biggest advertisers on Limbaugh's show offer living wills to his listeners so they can voluntarily choose to make their most important medical decisions known?

Quick! Reimpose the Fairness Doctrine! Rush is trying to kill grandma!

Heh heh, you said "pulled out," heh heh.

I think I'm gonna get a box of Timbits for the office tomorrow:

 After outrage that Canadian coffee and bakeshop Tim Hortons was slated to sponsor a "traditional marriage" event by the National Organization for Marriage, the company has pulled out of the deal.

In a statement issued on Monday, the company said that it sponsors local events "thousands of times a year across Canada and the United States." However, its sponsorship policy bars them from supporting "religious groups, political affiliates, or lobby groups," therefore the NOM event would fall outside of company guidelines.

Christopher Plante of the National Organization for Marriage in Rhode Island told The Advocate on Monday that his organization is accepting the pullout with a heavy heart.

"It's stressful, it's sorrowful, it's saddening," Plante said. "The marriage equality folks are making this a boycott threat. That's sad. It has become our job now to remind Rhode Islanders that this is what's to come." Plante added that the event is apolitical, saying, "It's held by an organization that, whatever you think of our politics, is not religious, we accept folks of all faiths and of no faith."

Don't worry, though, bigots. You can still order some Krispy Kremes on the way to Rhode Island, after the Saturday night Klan rally and Sunday morning Fred Phelps church service.

It's me for you and euphemism!

If you listened to Wait Wait over this past weekend, you heard Tom Bodett dancing around a fairly delicate subject. The Bluff the Listener segment (click that then scroll down) was about unusual signs of support from one beleagured party to another; Tom's story, the true one, involved two towns near the Austro-German border who have a bit of a problem with English-speaking tourists. The Austrian town's name- a perfectly fine and clean one in their native, um, tongue- was referred to throughout the broadcast as "When Two People Really Love Each Other," while its German counterpart came across in Tom's story as "Pleasuring Oneself."  The bloody tourists keep embarrassing them by stopping to get their pictures taken in front of the town markers.

A quick scan of Teh Interwebs led to the actual towns in question; this woman's blog and this related site provided the helpful signage:

( Now factory cut for your safe-at-work protection )

Despite the presence on the show of no fewer than five professional comedians (six if you count Carl), the comeback of the day came from the amateur caller who guessed right but also (sorry) nailed the subject matter perfectly:

"I think that if Mark Sanford had visited one town instead of the other, he'd be in less trouble."

They also had an unrelated bit about Starbucks trying to get their baristas to work faster by making them assemble Mr. Potato Heads for speed.  At least I hope that's unrelated.