Reinstate Slavery 2012!

La Puta Loca

Sorry to be so political lately, but it's an election cycle, and that's where most of the rage and lulz are going to be centered right now, and will be for some time. Today's political lulz come via Michelle Bachmann. No, it's not her gay husband, that's soooo late June, people. This time it's her awesome Newsweek cover as seen above coupled with this interesting info from a story about her by Ryan Lizza, Senior Editor at the New Republic :

[Bachmann's recommended historian] J Steven Wilkins has combined a Christian conservatism with neo-confederate views and developed what is known as the theological war thesis. This is an idea that says the best way to understand the Civil War is to see it in religious terms, and [that] the South was an Orthodox Christian nation attacked by the godless North and that what was really lost after the Civil War was one of the pinnacles of Christian society. This insane view of the Civil War has been successfully injected into some of the Christian home-schooling movement curriculums with the help of [Wilkins]. My guess is this is how [Bachmann] encountered the guy at some point. ... She recommended this book on her website for a number of years. It is an objectively pro-slavery book and one of the most startling things I learned about her in this piece.

Could this information hurt her chances with black voters? Will Herman Cain bitchslap her at the next debate? Will she ever take a picture where she doesn't look like the World's Craziest Bitch? Looking like she does, if you told me she bit the heads off of babies while frolicking in the moonlight, I'd believe you. Not that she wouldn't make a terrific president, of course.