Tuesday Miscellany!

• Israel resumes bombing Gaza after Hamas rejects a cease fire deal, about which they were never consulted.


• The perfect take-down of professional Austrian economics troll, tea party founding father and font of bad advice Rick Santelli here. Why do we still listen to this dope?


• Am I the only one who thinks this cockamamie six Californias proposal is basically an attempt to shift the Senate and the Electoral College in the Republicans' favor?


• Todd Akin claims he and Joe McCarthy are both victims of the liberal media. It's not that he has stupid ideas at all, natch.


• On a similar note, Congresswoman Renee Ellmers (R-NC) claims that Republicans would have more support from women if they talked down to their level. (No, Representative, it's not that women don't get deficit hawking or the principle of smaller government, it's that most of them think it's horseshit.)


• One of the creators of Cards Against Humanity is accused of a sexual assault that allegedly happened years ago. Which, of course, makes the perfect fodder for more cards.