So there have been two stories I can’t stop thinking about in the last 24 hours, and both make my chair involuntarily slide further left.

1. Fox news headline: ?Outraged liberals: Stop picking on Obama?s baby mama?

   NEW YORK – Fox News Channel referred to Michelle Obama as ?Obama?s baby mama? in a graphic on Wednesday, the latest in a trio of references to the Democratic presidential campaign that have given fuel to network critics.

   The graphic ?Outraged liberals: Stop picking on Obama?s baby mama? was flashed during an interview with conservative columnist Michelle Malkin about whether Barack Obama?s wife has been the target of unfair criticism.

   In the past two weeks, Fox anchor E.D. Hill has apologized for referring to an affectionate onstage fist bump shared by the couple as a ?terrorist fist jab,? and Fox contributor Liz Trotta said she was sorry for joking about an Obama assassination.

   Okay, I get it. Like your great-uncle Walt at the family reunion, Fox is trying to be funny, & told a ‘joke’ using that smacktalk the kids use nowadays to show how hip he is.

   Q: Does their ignorance mitigate or aggravate?
   A: In 2008 we actually need to wonder if an entire “news” network knows a single person of another color or culture? Aggravate doesn’t even begin to describe it.

2. Gov. Bobby Jindal brings extra skills to Baton Rouge :
   Will McCain Choose Nutball Exorcist For Veep Candidate?
   So Wonkette posts this yesterday afternoon, with a link to the New Oxford Review piece Bobby wrote in 1994 about how he preformed an exorcism on a female friend (he goes to great lengths to make sure you know they weren’t bonking).

   She apparently was acting strangely, so he thought (naturally) that she was possessed by the devil. Several students gathered together and restrained her on the floor and began praying over her:

   Mixed in with her vile attacks were short and desperate pleas for help. In the same breath that she attacked Christ, the Bible’s authenticity, and everyone assembled in prayer, Susan would suddenly urge us to rescue her.

   Ummm…yeah, I’d be screaming for you to get the hell up off me, too.

   You’ll be glad to hear there’s a happy ending- the demon was driven out (as was her cancer, apparently), and he thinks he’s run into several other cases of possession since.

   But to be fair, demon spotting is a really useful skill if you’re going into politics.

3. Bonus: