Romney's responses to his tax return debacle grow more and more cringeworthy, in an entertaining sort of way. Today, CNN actually ran this screenshot.

News from Iowa, where the GOP's Randi "I Have Not Really Been Vetted" Shannon announced she is bowing out of a state Senate race to serve the "Original Republic for The United States of America" after learning the "U.S. government has been acting unlawfully as the ‘official government,’ which clearly it is not!” All fed up and no place to go: There are real ideas here - "THE UNITED STATES CORPORATION" - along with the wingnuttery.

"This Corrupt System is just like an out of control freight train heading at full speed toward the river where the bridge has been washed out by a flood brought on by their own acts in violation of the Public Trust, and their Oaths to The Constitution of Iowa and The Republic of The United States of America."

This morning I was driving behind a coupla big ole boys in a big ole rig plastered with bumper stickers, including "When In Doubt Empty Magazine" and "In The Face of Terror and Murder the Call For Peace Is Not Patriotic It's Cowardice." So: Here's a story about a group in Chicago called Guns Save Life (sic) who went to the city's gun buyback program with some busted old guns, got $6,240, used it to buy new guns for kids as young as nine at an NRA summer shooting camp, and boasted online about scamming those "gun-hating do-gooders."