So now someone in Vermont is trying to sue to get Obama off the ballot here.

Only his argument isn't - Obama wasn't born here. It's -sure Obama was born here, but his father wasn't so he's not a natural born citizen and therefore is not eligible.

The state GOP has made it clear they have nothing to do with this. And he had to get a lawyer from New Jersey to help him because he couldn't find a lawyer in VT who would and so he'll be representing himself.

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This guy also ran for US Senate office but lost by a 3-1 margin.

It's -sure Obama was born here, but his father wasn't so he's not a natural born citizen and therefore is not eligible.

Let me introduce you to a dude by the name of Mitt Romney. Guess where his father was born?

Did he try to get McCain off the ballot too? Unless you can prove to me you spent this much time and energy trying to get McCain off the ballot 4 years ago, you get the gas face from me now.

Guess where his father was born?

Oh, it's OK that they were living in Mexico, because they're were good Americans who were just following their beliefs.

Not all 3rd world countries are Somalia, not ail first world countries are the US. There's not enough room in the lists for everyone to be at the top or the bottom.

My flight to LA had been canceled. I was travelling with a friend of my sister for the first leg, but she's gone home now. Maybe that was a teeny mistake. Hope not. Hope i can still get out tonight, because this migraine is robbing me of the ability (and will) to stand.

The friend is mad at my mother. It's a bit weird that she tells me this, but we're all a lot closer than we were on Thursday. She was in a dominoes game against my parents, and the 'rents kicked her team's asses. Apparently Da talked trash like an older Jamaican man talks trash, no problem. But she was highly disturbed by my mother's "oh, I don't even know what I have in my hand" style of self denigrating winning. She felt it was cruel and unsportsmanlike. Uh, my mother is a genius with low self esteem? I think I talked her off the ledge a little, but I have honestly never seen my mother play dominoes. It's entirely plausible that her uncertainty was born of newness, and her winning born of an incredible deftness with numbers and patterns.

In other news, I'm watching the new Pyramid, and am glad that in 30 years, it will be as hilariously dated as the original. Just saw a category of "things associated with hipsters."

There's a new Pyramid? Where? When?

not ail first world countries are the US

Well, yeah. I think most of them (hello Northern Europe!) are better, eh?

There's a new Pyramid? Where? When?

The Game Show Network, 6pm Eastern, weekdays. I'm trying not to get into the habit of putting it on every day, because I certainly don't need more TV, but there is something about that game that is fun to watch.

The Game Show Network, 6pm Eastern, weekdays. I'm trying not to get into the habit of putting it on every day, because I certainly don't need more TV, but there is something about that game that is fun to watch.

Thanks. I used to love watching the old one.

More awesome from Charlie Pierce: Mitt Romney has declared class war on himself. Heh.

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