The world discovers the weirdness of Todd Akin. Darn it.

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http://www.stltoday.com/news/opinion/columns/kevin-horrigan/horrigan-column-the-world-discovers-the-weirdness-of-todd-akin/article_f9135e2d-a7cc-508a-a544-cf8d5f3bf203.html

"Now that the bigfeet in the national political media have discovered Todd Akin, longtime Akinmaniacs are bereft.

For nearly a quarter of a century, we had him mostly to ourselves. He was that little barbecue joint that nobody else had discovered. He was a secret fishing hole we didn't have to share. We never knew what he would say next, but whatever it was, we knew that there was a good chance it would be ridiculous.

There was never anything as outrageous as the magical women-don't-often-get pregnant during "legitimate rape" claim that now has him in hot water. But if he started talking about Sunday blue laws or the evils of sex education or the dangers of the state licenses for day-care centers or any of the other social issues that came before the Missouri Legislature in the 1990s, Todd would safely go off the deep end and only the Akinmaniacs would notice.

Akin knew something that none of the other candidates had yet figured out. West St. Louis County and St. Charles County had become chock-a-block with evangelical churches, many of whose congregants were home-schoolers. Todd and Lulli Akin home-schooled their six kids. Lulli Akin was a home-school activist and organizer. Home-schoolers had a network. Home-schoolers were not afraid of a little rain."

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Again, I lay the craziness of the right at the feet of religious zealotry and home schooling based on that religious zeal.

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1. t-shirt: "I knew Akin was batshit crazy before it was cool"