Collected Thoughts of the Day

• 11:40 My blog post about the Know Nothing Party, one of the spiritual ancestors of the Tea Party: bit.ly/cEO2lS #
• 12:23 "A vivid presentation of the DANGERS TO AMERICAN LIBERTY from Foreign Influence" - A Know Nothing pamphlet from 1855: bit.ly/cX5sl7 #
• 13:03 The anti-Catholicism of the Know Nothing Party of the 1850s, in many ways the spiritual ancestors of today's Tea Party: bit.ly/9uZDoN #
• 13:55 Wurst. Joke. Ever. RT @jetjocko:Thinking of marketing a new kind of delicious, self-similar sausage: The mandel-brat. It tastes like itself! #
• 14:40 What "Birth of a Nation" was to the KKK, this anonymous novel is to the Know Nothings. Next: a Tea Party reality show? bit.ly/9GaXaI #
• 16:05 >Know Nothingism is the attraction of a red flag for a bull< bit.ly/ad0vkd >Tea Party anger like road rage< bit.ly/ar6muG #
• 20:17 Hooray, I'm rich! twitpic.com/1yuziu #