Is It The Moon, Or Is It The End Of Western Civilization?

I've been glued to breaking political news on my favorite internet sites for more than two years, but I just popped over to TPM after the Weeds interlude and I swear I have never seen such bizarre.
Josh Marshall wonders if wrestling and necrophilia have ever played a role in a political campaign before this year's Chris Dodd race in Connecticutt, the NRA thinks Hillary and third-world dictators want to take away somebody's (not mine) guns, Obama spokesman notes that biracial background don't seem to have adversely affected either his boss or himself despite what some Louisiana justice of the peace thinks, and some COP (Crazy Ol' Party) folks make news for the second day in a row in their quest to find Muslim plots teeming in the halls of Congress. So far nothing new on ballooon boy, but the day's not over.
I'm almost afraid to check HuffPo, which had headlined Arianna calling for Biden's resignation, a story I studiously avoided.
Was she kidding or has she jumped the shark? Dunno.
Back to Weeds, I guess.
This would all make more sense if I really was high.
And to top it all off, Andrew Sullivan found this:

Fewer people joined the Army this year than last year. The Army exceeded its recruitment goals not because recruitment went up but rather because recruitment goals were lowered. The Army is the service that has been having the hardest time finding new recruits in recent years, in part because it has borne the heaviest burden—and suffered by far the most casualties—in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.

Don't trust anything you hear or read, ever.
Love,  Former  reporter