Here's a little bit of entertainment for a slow news day when most of our politicians and pundits have taken the day, the week, or more off for the holiday. The Young Turks Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian had a bit of fun with this Buzzfeed article featuring pictures of politicians and political figures from their high school days.

I think it's fair to say that Buzzfeed has their post incorrectly titled, since you should not be calling Glenn Beck and Rachel Maddow "politicians," but here's the link to the post with all the photos: 69 Politicians As They Were In High School.

I was really amused by David Axelrod's photo, who looked like some long haired stoner in the picture they posted. Eric Cantor reminds me of the James Spader character in Pretty in Pink. And I don't even know what to say about Rick Santorum and those plaid pants with the white socks, or Rand Paul happily dissecting a cat. On the other end of the spectrum, Nancy Pelosi was absolutely gorgeous. The woman really looked like she could have been a leading actress in a Hollywood movie.

All in all, I think these photos reinforce notions about what these public figures might have been like as a kid.

H/t Raw Story

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During Tuesday's online edition of The Young Turks, co-host Ana Kasparian had this response to the "humor" of Fox's Greg Gutfeld that NOW (the National Organization of Women) is superfluous because women do have the right to shop.

KASPARIAN: “I’m going to make an argument that misogyny doesn’t exist. That women have all the rights they want, by making a sexist comment about them. Fuck you! But that’s what Fox News is, right? They hire clowns to make clownish arguments.”

And while Cenk Uygur did point out Gutfeld was just joking the fact that it is just this type of knuckle-dragger humor, as practiced by Limbaugh and others of a conservative bent, that is losing votes for Republicans.

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Teaching young girls to marry rich makes S. E. Cupp "an embarrassment to women":

Cenk and Ana Kasparian lay into conservative commentator S. E. Cupp’s recent op-ed praising Ann Romney decision to “marrying well.” Ana says, “She makes the assumption that women are worthless and they are unable to be independent, so they need either a wealthy man or the government to take care of them, which is not the case at all.”

Digby flagged Cupp's op-ed as well the other day. I would not be surprised at all if Cenk found out about it from reading her post here -- Study hard for your M.R.S., girls. After quoting a good deal of the post from Cupp she added this:

Somebody's been watching too much Mad Men, I'm afraid.

Seriously, it's been a while since I read such retrograde drivel even from a right winger. She's literally saying that if women want stability and security they should marry rich. Which is, I think we can all agree, nice work if you can get it. But the 1 percent is only 1 percent and unless we are going to require wealthy men to marry more than one wife (which I'm sure ole Mitt wouldn't be averse to either --- his grandfather wasn't anyway) we have a little math problem here.

But I have to say that I'm depressed by the notion that the only valid choices for a woman to gain security and stability is to be dependent on welfare or marriage is still in circulation anywhere. Presumably, Cupp is aware that the vast majority of women don't depend on anyone for those things. Not even the conservative married ones. They work at jobs, just like she does. Are they irresponsible gadabouts for failing to properly secure a millionaire?

Evidently Cupp is looking for a wealthy, patriarchal throwback to take her away from all this and there are probably a few available. Sadly, being in her 30s she's pretty much out of the running for anyone younger than 60 or so. (Rich male "providers" of all ages tend to prefer the younger ones.) She missed her "Romney window" a long time ago.

More there so just go read the rest.

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Cenk and his panel -- Michael Shure, Ana Kasparian and Stephanie Miller -- tear into CNN's Wolf Blitzer for bullying Hilary Rosen into apologizing to Ann Romney for a second time after she'd already apologized to her earlier that same day.

They also weighed in on whether the Obama administration surrogates were too quick to throw Rosen under the bus or whether they should have stood up for her and the point she was trying to make. And they discussed The Catholic League's Bill Donahue and his disgusting attack on Rosen which we covered at this site, but has been completely ignored by the rest of the media. I did not see any other show cover it other than The Young Turks here.

They also brought up the woman who called into Stephanie Miller's show earlier that day who claimed to be Ann Romney's nanny and who told Miller that Hilary Rosen was right about Ann Romney never having worked a day in her life. They thought she might have sounded legit but there's been no confirmation that the woman that called in ever actually worked for Ann Romney. While I don't doubt that may very well be the case since she grew up rich and married a rich man, I don't know how her childhood nanny would be qualified to weigh in on whether she ever "worked" or not as an adult.

I think the one thing we can be sure of is that she lived in households that were wealthy enough to afford domestic help both as a child and as an adult, which is not the type of lifestyle most typical Americans have experienced, and the point that ought to be driven home if Mitt Romney wants to continue to hold his wife out there as some representative of average American women and their concerns.