Howlingly funny. A very much a tongue-in-cheek reminder of that earlier event, Rick Santorum’s Italian family has been interviewed and found to be “Communist”.

But the elder Santorum matriarch doesn’t understand why he has diverged so far from the family’s longtime political stance. “In Riva del Garda his grandfather Pietro and uncles were ‘red communists’ to the core,” writes Oggi journalist Giuseppe Fumagalli, likening the family to “Peppone” after a famous fictional Italian communist mayor who fought against an ultraconservative priest known as Don Cammillo and about which a popular television series is based. “But on the other side of the ocean, it’s like his family here doesn’t exist. Instead he draws crowds as the head of the ultraconservative faction of the Republican party, against divorce, gay marriage, abortion, and immigration.”

There is a bit of good advice from the left-wing part of his family – “…if he wants to make it, he will have to soften some of his positions. To take a stand against homosexuality or to oppose divorce is harmful. Principles count, but in politics one must have the capacity to be open-minded.”

Santorum seems to have missed that lesson at his familial knee. Still, the family seems to be largely forgiving of his crass move to the right and there may be some expectations of a Santorum presidency.

Thanks Andy! So funny.

What I want to do is share with you part of a paragraph from the book.

To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease. The sheer endlessness of books outfaced her and she had no idea how to go on; there was no system to her reading, with one book leading to another, and often she had two or three on the go at the same time. The next stage had been when she started to make notes, after which she always read with a pencil in hand, not summarising what she read but simply transcribing passages that struck her. It was only after a year or so of reading and making notes that she tentatively ventured on the occasional thought of her own.

Howl. The Queen with a thought of her own. Goodness, I hope Elizabeth had the pleasure of reading Bennett’s book.

Also, glad to see I have so many things in common with Her Highness, although it took me considerably more than a year after beginning to read to have a thought at all, let alone one that could safely be described as “my own”.

I did — laugh out loud. I took this picture. Then I cut the joke up and ate it.

Callers to Open Forum, the show Camping hosts, expressed outrage.

“You’re really pathetic, you know? I wasted all my money because of you. I was putting all my money and my hopes on you… I wish I could see you face to face, I would smack you. Mr. Camping, you always say a lot of (redacted) I lost all my money because of you, you (redacted),” a caller said, according to The Christian Post.

There is no word yet on whether the 89-year-old Camping plans to offer another prediction, but if history is any indicator, this won’t be the last Camping’s listeners have heard from the doomsday prophet.

You spent money based on the word of a man who has yet to get a prediction right and he’s the pathetic one?  Uhuh.

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You can also look at Patton Owalt’s home page.

A good reason to dump the idea of purpose don’t you think.

It wasn’t all anti-Obama speeches at the Values Voters Summit Friday. Texas evangelical leader Robert Jeffress introduced Texas Gov. Rick Perry as a “a genuine follower of Jesus Christ,” and then explained his word choice by telling reporters that Mitt Romney “is not a Christian.”

Sort of like Obama’s not an American? Dude! You made my day.