Brains in Fluxx

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The only funny Iranian is a dead Iranian

Responding to a question about a survey that shows increased exports to Iran, mainly from cigarettes, McCain said, "Maybe that's a way of killing them."

Yaknow, I haven't heard Obama tell many jokes this election.

Antivaccination advocacy leads to measles epidemic in the UK

The UK is several years ahead of the United States in the shrillness and absurdity of anti-vaccination madness, and the consequences are now coming to roost. A measles epidemic is now breaking out in the UK school system, and there has been one death. Congratulations, anti-vaccine crazies: you've now managed to kill more kids than you've "saved," the latter number being exactly zero. (via Orac at Respectful Insolence )

Carly Fiorina praises John McCain for preserving women's access to birth control.

Good Grief, Carly Fiorina, the ex-CEO of Hewlett Packard released after her disastrous oversight of the Compaq merger, disses Obama's health-care plan on the grounds that it'll deprive women of "market choices" to things like birth control.

I don't know where Fiorina is coming from. Insurance policies are usually bought by companies, not individuals, so "individual choice" is somewhat irrelevant here. But is she really praising on behalf of a man opposed to birth control in all it's forms?. (via Matthew Yglesias)

Obama's a "snob" because he wants American kids to be smarter

File under WTF: Obama wants a better educational system that'll teach kids how to speak multiple languages, like most of the first-world education systems do. Apparently, the Weekly Standard thinks that makes him an elitist snob.