Things Can Always Get Crazier

Sorry for the absence -- visiting family followed by visiting significant other's family (important news for upper midwesterners: Bell's Rye Stout and Old Ale are exceptional even by their standards.) It's almost reassuring to return to the intertubes to find Reynolds and Althouse engaging in analysis of an ordinary photo of Obama that's crackpot even by their extremely high standards. Actually, especially in the case of the former it's even worse than that; rather than analysis, he and his readers seem to think that what's wrong with the picture (a black man in a tux who isn't carrying a tray?) is so obvious it doesn't even require analysis, although said wrongness is certainly not apparent to sane people. And to think these people used to talk about Bush Derangement Syndrome...