Every once in a while, I feel myself sort of injected with a sense of positivity, with a feeling like things in the world are not horrible and that people are not disgusting and vile.

Then I see something like this "Historical Keepsake Photo" which was emailed around amongst Republican legislative staffers in Tennessee…

…and then I grab another tube of Pringles and climb back under my blanket fort.

No man should ever be forced to explain the love between him and his handgun to anyone. Not the press, not the public, not the recently accidentally shot — nobody.

How much do you love your secret gun?

Good news if you're one of the thirteen atheists living in Arkansas. You might one day be afforded the honor of having an actual legal vote that doesn't matter…

It's an ugly little open secret that Arkansas, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas have constitutions that explicitly forbid atheists from holding state office. These laws are archaic and unenforceable in principle — they were all ruled unconstitutional in 1961…

Now, though, a representative in Arkansas has submitted a bill to amend the Arkansas constitution and remove the prohibition of atheists.

Can you believe the nerve of Richard Carroll, the guy who submitted this bill? Throwing his hat in with the godless unbelievers. In direct defiance of the defiance of the 1st Amendment?! And in Mike Huckabee's back yard, no less! I never thought I'd see the day.

Can't we just have one small little section of the country where reasonable can go to not be reasonable? Just one?

No, Orly Taitz isn't that brand of potato chips that they hand out in the lunch packs that your company provides for you when you have to go to anger management seminars.

She's one of those incredibly rational people who're willing to say what everybody else knows to be true: That the entire government of our country has conspired to cook the books just so that a foreign-born socialist could become president.

I mean, come on, it's Occam's Razor…

Well, that rambling tirade has convinced me. I don't need any more facts. Or any facts, actually.

And I'm not alone in my well-founded credulity…

Representative Eric Swafford of Tennessee has agreed to be a Plaintiff in a legal action of Dr. Orly Taitz, ESQ to demand that Barack Obama proves his eligibility.

If Rep. Swafford is on board you know this has to be the real deal. What would a Tennessee legislator possibly have against a black president?

In case you were wondering what the top ten most morally-upright states in the union were, look no further than this new poll from Gallup…

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(via DFTCW)

This week, the Tennessee State House elected its first Republican Speaker of the House in 40 years, and they could not have done it without the support of every Democrat in the body and only one Republican:

Acting in a clandestine pact, the 49 Democrats in Tennessee’s House shocked Nashville just one hour ago by nominating and then voting en masse for Kent Williams (a moderate Republican from Elizabethton in Carter County) for Speaker to lead the 99-member chamber. The official Republican nominee, Jason Mumpower (a wingnut from Bristol in Sullivan County) was left speechless, clutching the family bible that he had brought in preparation for taking the Speaker’s oath of office.

This really is amazing. Just a jaw-dropping and cleverly executed upset that no one saw coming. It's the kind of thing only ever happens in movies, so Tennesseans would probably by wise to keep a look out for Cloverfields.

(via Balloon Juice who has video)