No Commentary Required (not about Cliven Bundy edition) 4/25/14

Here are a few of the things you might have missed during our national Cliven Bundy obsession.

From Mark Kleiman at the appropriately titled Reality-Based Community comes the quote-of-the-day.

“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” It’s not by accident that the party of global-warming denial and poll unskewing is also the party of torture.

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For a taste of the kind of racism conservatives never acknowledge, here's George Will basically calling President Obama "boy" in a column titled: Barack Obama: The Adolescent President. Nuff said.

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I challenge you to not go verklempt over this one.

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HBO is premiering a documentary about Ann Richards on Monday. In case you've forgotten some of her more memorable moments, check this clip out.

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U.S. solar energy capacity has grown an astounding 418% since 2010 (thanks mostly to President Obama's American Recovery Act). The future is arriving.

Solar array at Davis-Monthan w/shut-down coal power plant backdrop - clear contrast of future vs past @OperationFree pic.twitter.com/VZovA4OWOo
— Courtney Hinkle (@cjhinklc0) April 25, 2014

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And speaking of the future, yes, its time we all bowed down to our robotic overlords ;-)