The Girl With The Faraway Eyes

She should have been written off as a crank in 2004, when she complained that The Lion King was gay propaganda, or in 2006, when she said that there were hundreds of Nobel Prize-winning scientists who believed in intelligent design, or in 2007, when she said that visiting Baghdad was like going to the Mall of America. But, no, there were no brave Republicans being revolted at sharing a party with her then, so she got to go on after her memorable Hardball fandango to accuse AmeriCorps of being an embryonic Hitler Youth, spread panic about the U.S. census, claim that Glenn Beck could solve the crisis over the national debt, and blame Jimmy Carter for the Swine Flu outbreak in the 1970s.

–Charles P. Pierce on those who are finally noticing that Michele Bachmann really is like that.

Love drug

Dr. Eliot Gelwan on the hype about oxytocin