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Comment from Palin’s Facebook page which is the circus one would expect. Listicle of 18 more at The Awl.

He’s a son of something, anyway.

To honor the Badgers in today’s Rose Bowl, below is the most “Wisconsin” photo I have ever seen.

Go Badgers!

Again from the Library of Congress’ immacuate collection:

Emperor Nicholas II shovelling [sic] snow in the park at Tsarskoe Selo, Russia, where he and the royal family were interned, 1917 .

See, even the fu**ing Emperor had to shovel snow.

From the Library of Congress collection:

The first of two prints formerly thought to be anti-Jackson satires, but actually dealing with the sensational trial of Methodist minister Ephraim K. Avery in May 1833 for the murder of Sarah Maria Cornell. (See also “A Minister Extraordinary…,” no. 1833-14). Miss Cornell, a young and pregnant factory girl, was beaten and strangled, and left tied to a post on a remote Massachusetts farm in December 1832. Avery was tried in May 1833 and despite considerable evidence against him (reported at length in the press) was acquitted on June 5. The artist’s portrayal here appears to be based on published testimony from the trial. Avery, wearing green spectacles, is shown in the act of tying the young woman by the neck to a post before a haystack. Her shoes and kerchief lie on the ground at left, Avery’s walking stick on the ground at right. An owl (the crime occurred at night) perches on one of the posts, and on and about the hut are demons, who speak: “Do you see what is going on here.” “I never sleep on such occasions.” “How will this be managed if it should go to a jury.” “A Jury ye young fools is nothing. what’s to be done with Public Opinion.”

A list of important, funny, overlooked and/or popular things I wrote in 2010. In no particular order:

BP Stock,One Awl Reader, Both Winners Six Months Later - The Awl

Two Hours in Marinette: Lessons From a School Shooting - The Awl

Sarah Palin the TV Star Exposes Sarah Palin the Fake Hunter - The Awl

Sarah Palin’s Accidental Social Network - Esquire

If You Don’t Support Health Care Reform, You Don’t Support the Troops - The Awl

Target Doesn’t Support Gay Equality Because It Never Did - The Awl

After the Apology, Target’s Anti-gay giving Never Stopped  - The Awl

Gap Rebrands itself into Oblivion - Brandchannel

Dystopian Wisconsin: Who is Ron Johnson? - The Awl

Inside Ron Johnson’s Victory Party: Reason Concedes to Ron Johnson - The Awl

(more…)

Cards and well wishes may be sent care of The Curb Outside the Pipefitter

Uh Oh. Somebody at the Tim Pawlenty campaign is going to be getting a lump of coal for Christmas. The link to “Support Tim Pawlenty’s Freedom First PAC” in the Presidential hopeful’s Christmas card/fund-raising email, is broke. The code behind the link is “http:// support tim pawlenty’s freedom first pac         paid for by freedom first pac. not authorized by any candidate or candidate’s committee.  www.timpawlenty.com  /” Whoopsie! Good thing the Donate Now button below it works.

This brings us to the second question: Is Mary Photoshopped in this Christmas photo? Because it really looks like Mary is Photoshopped in this photo. (Did Pawlenty go “to the cloud?“)

Finally, please note that while the fine print at the bottom of the card may be mistaken as the spirit of Christmas, it is actually a disclaimer about how the Freedom First PAC paid for the Pawlenty family’s Christmas card. And what says protecting the spirit of the holiday from the War on Christmas more than “$5,000 maximum contribution per calendar year is not tax deductible for federal income tax purposes?”

I was hoping Deadspin’s “Days of Reckoning” would be about Gawker Media finally paying me for that thing I wrote for Deadspin six months ago.

Apparently not.

Governor elect Walker, before you take office, I suggest you take a look and see how the last Republican governor of the great state of Wisconsin won numerous reelection campaigns.

Mr. Walker, will you be willing to get blotto and go in front of tens of thousands of other drunks and declare a state Packer day? You better, because that’s 110,000 votes right there.