Ah, a rare example of plain speech in political discourse.

[redneckgaijin]

Nate Silver at fivethirtyeight.com has the following nugget in an article reacting to George Will's claim that in the 1970s scientific consensus was that we could expect global cooling and a new ice age:

There's just one little problem with this story, which reappears every so often in conservative discourse on the environment. Specifically, it's a crock of shit.

And this from the single most respected blogger of the 2008 campaign.

THANK GOD, someone knows to call a shovel a shovel...