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After almost three weeks spent flying and driving around the globe (it felt like I almost drove as many miles as I flew), I’m back to the computer and seeing what’s what with the world. Well, from my little corner of the earth, this is the only news that is fit to print for today:

Conservatives Warn Quick Sex Change Only Barrier Between Gays, Marriage

I know it is hard to believe, but I think we have found the answer to the US auto industry’s troubles:

Autoworkers Compete to Keep Jobs, Livelihoods on New Reality Show

I just want to clear the air of something that is on one hand funny, but also sadly representative of the conservative movement in this country. I’m talking about the ultra right-wing’s dissociative behavior where its members continue to prove how out of touch they are with reality. FOX “News” is leading the pack with its slander and blatant lies, but more importantly the fuel it is giving to comedians everywhere. For anyone under the age of 35 who attended university or for anyone else in this world under about 30 years old (or for that matter with half a brain), the term “tea bagging” is a familiar one. FOX “News” thinks it has something to do with protesting taxation, but they better think again. Keith Olbermann, the MSNBC commentator and former sportscaster, is certainly familiar with the term and wrapped as many euphemisms as possible into this 10 minute piece the other night (so to speak).

But first, for those of you who aren’t familiar with the definition of tea bagging, here are two options to consider thanks to UrbanDictionary.com:

First: Tea bagging

The act of lowering one’s balls onto someones face, or into their mouth while they are laying down. Kind of resembles dipping a tea bag into a hot cup of water.

Second: Tea bagging

A horribly misguided attempt by the most extreme of the American conservative right to find some basic form of party unity by lashing out against everything that the Obama administration has done since entering the White House.

“The Republican tea-bagging of the White House is a glorified waste of time and effort propagated by the Fox News Network in order to boost their TV ratings.”

“Hey Bob, did you go to yesterday’s Republican Tea Bagging Protest?”

“No I didn’t, Joe, because I have a legitimate understanding of the way the economy works.”

See also: “grasping at straws”

See also: “immature hissy-fit”

UPDATE: I’m sorry, but this has just gotten the best of me and I had to include Rachel Maddow’s discussion with Air America correspondent Ana Marie Cox (really, that’s her name):

UPDATE II: I’m just so, so sorry! I have to up the ante once again as we show how Stephen Colbert Tea Bagged the Alamo or Glenn Beck or not at all… This whole thing is starting to feel like a party that Eliot Spitzer might have hosted at this hotel (but please take note that “in and out privileges are for registered guests only.”

Scott Horton, who writes for Harper’s Magazine, has a wonderfully succinct piece about FOX “News’” supposed balance. FOX has admitted in the past to being the PR wing of the Republican party, so why do they keep pretending to present a fair and balanced report? My guess is that it works, that’s why. I personally have friends who watch FOX and quote it verbatim, lies and all, as if it is fact. The Horton write-up is well worth the read, but my favorite part was how he pointed to this brilliant clip from The Daily Show. Jon Stewart and his team barely have to try when it comes to finding comedic material on FOX. This is just too good to be true:

Recently we thanked George Carlin for his straight talking and honest approach towards life. Tonight on PBS, you’ll have the opportunity to see a whole host of clips from Carlin’s career (thanks to Tim Ferriss for the link), as well as introductions and discussion from some of today’s greatest comedic minds: Jon Stewart, Lewis Black, Denis Leary, Lily Tomlin, Bill Maher and others. As a part of the Eleventh Annual Kennedy Center and Mark Twain Prize, this show will undoubtedly be a hit, as you’ll see from the clip below featuring Lewis Black.

And for those of you who would like to see the original version of Carlin’s “Seven Words” act, here it is: