Penny ante antics

My pal and confidant, Capt Fogg, who just completed another trip around the sun today, unearths the latest manufactured outrage from the murky depths of the fever swaps of wingnuttia. It seems the government is going to redesign the penny in honor of Lincoln's birthday.

There's an outrage alert being passed around by viral email calling the troops to assemble in defense of God and country because the back of the coin doesn't say, "In God We Trust." I don't want to spoil the ending, so click over to Fogg's post to get the punch line to this joke. Unbelievable.

Fogg is on fire this week. He also cuts to the chase with Occam's butterknife . He tells us, "'lawmakers' in Tennessee, the former site of the only-in-America Scopes trial that proved to the world that Americans are demented idiots if not actually an atavistic subspecies, are up to something completely similar. They are insisting that our new president prove his citizenship to them by furnishing his birth certificate -- again." How do these people get elected to office?

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