There a fairly famous case in Texas.  It’s called Lawrence v. Texas and it threw out Texas’ anti-sodomy law.

It’s so famous that Rick Perry wrote about it in his book.

Oops.

When asked about it yesterday in Cedar Rapids, Perry responded —

“I wish I could tell you I knew every Supreme Court case. I don’t … I’m not a lawyer,” Perry told the person who posed the question. “We can sit here and play ‘I gotcha’ questions on ‘What about this Supreme Court case’ or whatever, but let me tell you — you know and I know that the problem in this country is spending in Washington, D.C. It’s not some Supreme Court case.”

Asked directly later by a journalist whether he knew what the case is, Perry said, “I don’t.” He added, “I’m not taking the bar exam.”

As my freind Sharon says, “Thank the lord he isn’t taking the bar exam because the folks at TABC just don’t hand out bartender licenses.”

It was in your damn book, Rick.  I know you didn’t write it but at least you could have had someone read it to you.

And this is fun —

Asked Thursday if there was any Iowa outcome that could change his determination to press on with his campaign, Perry said, “That’s God’s will. There might be an outcome that He decides that I wouldn’t go on.”

Yeah, I think God has had his little fun with you, Rick.  You can come home now.

Thanks to Sharon for the heads-up.

Bless his heart, Noot has gone from testy to creepy in 60 seconds or less.

Now he’s claiming he’s middle class.  Because everybody in the middle class has a half million dollar line of credit at Tiffany’s, vacations on a Greek cruise, and scams the government out of millions of dollars.

While criticizing Michael Bloomberg for “buying” his mayoral position in New York, Newt said —

My dad served in the Army for 27 years; I was a college teacher. I’m a middle class person,” Gingrich said.

Dude, you are not middle class just because your wife looks like she’d fit right in at the bowling alley in Lufkin.

Thanks to Stephen for the heads-up.

I am on Rick Perry’s mailing list.  I put myself on it because watching guys who are too big for their britches is entertaining.

I think things ain’t going too well at the Perry household, and it ain’t like that’s virgin territory.

I got a letter from Anita Perry this morning.  You know the drill – click the little one to get the big one.

Okay, let me start by translating here.  You know where she says, “hearing from so many Americans who just want their country back?”  That means “white people.”

But look at Anita.  She’s got one of those “I’m gonna hose you down and set you in a draft” looks on her face.  Damn, I know that his whole campaign in Iowa – which, as you recall, was ordained by God because Anita said so – has been about as cheerful as a coroner’s inquest, but Holy Smokes! that woman looks like she’s about to drop a pound of fire ants in his pants.

If you see Rick Perry the day after the Iowa primary, it’s only because he can run faster than she can.

Tom from Plano sent us a New Year’s Resolution that we all should adopt.

It goes something like this.

From now until November, when someone races to pass so that they can claim a place in front of me at a red light, or runs their stuffed shopping cart over my foot so they can beat me to the express line, or shares their cell phone conversation with everyone in the shop, the post office, even the theater, I will no longer reach into the sack of familiar profanities and pejoratives. Nor will I attempt the ever-futile, icy “Excuse me?”

No, this year I will answer every rude, self-involved, craniorectal act with the same, simple adjective.

“Wow, how Republican.” “Way Republican, dude.” “That is SO Republican.”

This appellation is effective in two ways. It tags the behavior with a group of Americans who have spent untold effort identifying with the privileged and telling everyone else to kiss off. Not merely as in, “Hey, you should pay more taxes so I don’t have to,” but even, “Hey, shouldn’t your ten-year-old kid be cleaning toilets at the school?”

Tom fully admits that he swiped it from here.  Now it’s your job to swipe it and spread it around.

There ain’t no two ways about it – that’s a plan that’ll work.

Thanks again to Tom for the heads-up.

There is no stopping the Librul Monster.  There is no keeping it away from our children.  Especially our tasty little girl children.

And there’s not getting anything by the geniuses at FOX News.  They will catch the Librul Monster wherever it goes.

And it’s going for the Girl Scouts and their yummy cookies.

Right-wing bloggers and Fox News have managed to squeeze in one more liberal conspiracy theory before the end of 2011.

The controversy is over a section in the Girl Scouts’ media guide that advises readers to use sites like snopes.com and MediaMatters to fact-check what they read on the Internet. Because, as Steve Doocy put it on Fox & Friends on Thursday, because MediaMatters is “clearly a lefty blog,” telling members to turn to them means the Girl Scouts must secretly be in the tank for the left.

Yes, it is true.  Facts have a liberal bias.

Foiled again by Fox news!

And that Junior Walter Cronkite, Andrew Breitbart, says, “Think twice before buying Girl Scout cookies next year.”  Rats!  Who leaked to him that we’re putting Librul Juice in the S’Mores?

And if you want to see a boatload of crazy, read the comments under Breitbart’s column.  According to them, we’re training the Girl Scouts to be George Soros’ sex slaves.  Or, worst yet, informed readers.

So my mind is made up.  I am buying cases of Girl Scout cookies this year and leaving a box on the doorstep of every rightwinger in my neighborhood.  Odds are pretty good they’ll eat anything they get for free.

Thanks to Brian for the heads-up.