The Dish

A competition winner:

The pedal-powered machine successfully transports and filters water without burning fossil fuels or wood, which contributes to a reduction in CO2 emissions.

YouTube here.

More repulsive pandering. For what it’s worth, I suspect he’ll win South Carolina.

Their proxies’ lawsuit – an attempt to suppress the vote in Nevada – is dismissed.

A scientific breakthrough.

Not bad for a start:

Mr. Huck believes God’s the solution
And claims that there’s no Evolution.
It could be he’s right
God said “Let there be light,”
But he didn’t write the damn Constitution.

There once was a man named Obama
Who avoided political drama.
But when Clintonites spoke
Claiming King was a joke,
Obama responded, "Yo mama!"

I’ll keep ’em coming if you do.

New Orleans gets some unexpected support:

April 11 and 12 will find the Louisiana Superdome interior turned into a pink and red vagina — "with a big vagina entrance," Ensler said — as a setting for performance events, parties, parades, workshops, wellness and education programs, speakers, even spa treatments, which will be free to residents of New Orleans and the Gulf South. (Men are excluded only from the spa.)

For those two days, New Orleans will be "the Vagina Capital of America," Ensler said. "We’re coming here to say that we should celebrate New Orleans, cherish it, protect it, just as we do our vaginas, and make sure it goes on and on."

Bainbridge is a little aghast. Yeah, according to Huckabee, my marriage to my husband is a gateway to legalized and protected relationships between humans and animals. Thanks, Mike! And then we’re somehow going to round up and deport all 12 million illegal immigrants without a new form of police state. Meanwhile, he doesn’t just have loose associations with far-right extremists, he has them hold fundraisers for him. In this campaign. Christian reconstructionists are genuinely Taliban-Christianists. And Huckabee has no problem with them.

I think of Huckabee as almost a comic vindication for those of us who have worried about the rise and rise of unopposed Christianism in the GOP. Except he’s not a joke. He could actually win this thing.

From outer space to earth?

And stop worrying about wedge issues – that’s Kai Wright’s message for the Democrats this fall:

America much prefers a principled stand to a weak-kneed dodge.

Amen. And that goes for gay equality in particular. If you think Hillary Clinton will campaign proudly on her defense of gay people, think again. She never has. She never will. She’s too scared. Whenever the Clintons have been forced to pick between defensive calculation and aggressive conviction, calculation always wins.

And that’s a good thing, whatever environmentalists say, argues Alexander Tabarrock:

Once we realize the importance of ideas in the economy, people become brains–they innovate, creating more for everyone else.

Of course, Fox News’ John Gibson is just thrilled to have more white kids around. Not that he’s a racist or anything.