The American Spectator

Start with Rick Santorum, who, according to Public Policy Polling, is the clear current favorite among voters, running 15 points ahead of Mr. Romney. Anyone with an Internet connection is aware that Mr. Santorum is best known for 2003 remarks about homosexuality, incest, and bestiality. But his strangeness runs deeper than that.

For example, last year Mr. Santorum made a point of defending the medieval Crusades against the “American left who hates Christendom.” Historical issues aside (hey, what are a few massacres of infidels and Jews among friends?), what was this doing in a 21st-century campaign?
(February 13, 2012)

Washington Post

A Washington Post report on the fabulous whooping cranes proffers a helpful suggestion as to how Mr. and Mrs. Barack Obama, once liberated from the White House glitz, can integrate themselves back into the American mainstream—don bird suits!

The birds are reared by conservationists in bird suits that conceal their human features. The birds become conditioned to follow the suited handlers.

On the migratory route, the cranes follow a small plane flown by a pilot in a bird costume. The cranes think the small glider-like ultralight plane is another bird. The flock flies 25 to 50 miles a day. Once the route is flown, the birds can make the return flight on their own.
(January 10, 2012)

Chelsea Standard

Arty doings in downtown Chelsea, Michigan, involving such famous down-and-outs as the Buddha, Jesus of Nazareth, and even Kelly Clarkson:

Holy Faith Church, 6299 Ann Arbor-Saline Road in Saline, is hosting “Letters Home,” an art installation about homelessness in America, through Friday.

The exhibit is the creation of area artist Susan Clinthorne and her sister, Sally Thielen, who together have been photographing and getting to know their homeless subjects in such places as Ann Arbor, Flint, Chicago, New York and along the West Coast. The two artists show the installation for free, making no money from the project.

The purpose of “Letters Home” is to raise awareness of the problem of homelessness and to break down an us-versus-them distinction for the viewer. It features life-sized, cut-out, black-and-white-photo portraits, as well as framed cardboard signs, a shopping cart, a cardboard “shelter” and a light box with a list of famous people who have been homeless—from entertainers like Kelly Clarkson and Halle Berry to religious figures like the Buddha and Jesus of Nazareth.
(February 9, 2012)

New York Times