“A horror musical set at drama camp.”

TIME Magazine has posted a ridiculously cool interactive panorama photo taken from above the World Trade Center. Using your cursor and the on-screen controls, you can spin around in all directions and zoom in on midtown, Brooklyn, New Jersey, even the Statue of Liberty. I’m finding it works best on Chrome so far. There goes the next hour of your …

The red-caped Catholic loons of Tradition, Family, & Property are handing out a flyer at CPAC that depicts GOProud as a rainbow-hued beaver gnawing at one of the supporting legs of conservatism. Or something. Via Peter Montgomery at Right Wing Watch: TFP’s flyer says it protests against GOProud’s efforts to “cast itself as a bone fide member of the conservative …

UPDATE: Zombie Jimmy Carter is pissed.

Via press release from the White House: The Internal Revenue Service released a new YouTube video designed to provide useful tax tips to married same-sex couples. The new video, less than two minutes long, is available in English, Spanish and American Sign Language and can be accessed via IRS.gov. It joins an array of online products, including answers to frequently-asked …

Via the Associated Press: The staged arrests of pastors in front of their congregations in northeast Ohio got a surprising reaction for one sheriff. Videos of the mock arrests posted online brought a wave of criticism for the Summit County Sheriff’s office from people who thought the deputies really were interrupting church services to make arrests. Sheriff Steve Barry says …

The Associated Press reports that four men were lashed in a Nigeria courtroom today after a Sharia tribunal convicted them of homosexual acts. The four were among dozens caught in a wave of arrests after Nigeria strengthened its criminal penalties for homosexuality with the new Same Sex Marriage Prohibition Act in January. The men could face further violence in prison …

The American Family Association wants the top result to be “religious liberty,” of course. So let’s all just click on “other” to fuck with them. The last three times we freeped an AFA poll, they changed the words, reset the numbers, and eventually just took the polls down.

And Twitchy goes nuts.

Chris Christie just told a squealing CPAC audience that Democrats are intolerant because they don’t allow pro-life speakers at their conventions. Brian Tashman rips this apart at Right Wing Watch: “Tell me, sir, the last pro-life Democrat who was allowed to speak at a Democratic convention – and by the way, don’t strain yourself because there’s never been one,” Christie …

The little standee on the left promotes NOM’s coming anti-gay hate march in DC. You might recall that last year’s hate march drew a humiliatingly small crowd.

“Radical libertarian would like to tie up and abuse proglodyte and leftover journalists. Boys who look like Sally Kohn or Chris Hayes who need to be tied up, slapped around and fucked.  Also any Rick Santorum supporters in the closet or younger versions of Lindsey Graham or John McCain.  Or if you are just a decent constitutionalist type, we can …

Harlem Pastor James Manning earned national headlines last week by posting a billboard which declared that President Obama has unleashed white homo demons on America’s black women. Manning took to the pulpit on Sunday to talk about the resultant “media firestorm” and to let everybody know that all of those homosexual demons are under the direct control of President Obama …

From the Winklevoss twins’ blog: Humans have a long tradition of exploring and forging new frontiers, both physically and metaphorically. In the Middle Ages, Marco Polo’s writings – which recounted his 24 years of travel and trade on the Silk Road – built a new and lasting level of economic and cultural awareness between Europe and Asia. 200 years later, …

“A Travoltafied musical tribute to Idina Menzel and John Travolta’s flub at the 2014 Oscars.”

Via Animal New York: “A lot of people associate it with 2001: A Space Odyssey. Others think of a hamster wheel,” artist Ward Shelley tells ANIMAL, standing 25 feet above ground, perched on top of a large wooden wheel where he has been living for four days. Inside the wheel is partner artist Alex Schweder. For six days, the artists …

“It is that time again and I want to have some NSA fun after the speeches.  I want to fuck your mouth while I sign you up on the health care market place. I want you to be the gipper and go down on my jelly beans. I want to be discrete.” – Craigslist DC M4M. He had me until …

Sen. Ted Cruz opened CPAC 2014 today by urging support for the GOP’s 50th attempt to repeal Obamacare. Via Politico: “There are a lot of D.C. consultants who say there’s a choice for Republicans to make: We can either choose to keep our head down, to not rock the boat, to not stand for anything, or we can stand for …

McConnell then presented the rifle to retiring Sen. Tom Coburn. If you can stand it, CPAC is being live-streamed on CSPAN3.