As the entire planet goes to shit in a wire basket, this is a giggle — Thursday afternoon in Georgia, a quick-erupting fire forced eight people, including two children, to scramble for safety, but one of the grown-ups, Walter Serpit, with the aid of his cane, went back for his beer:

“I told them to get the kids out and everything, and me myself, being an alcoholic, I was trying to get my beer out,” Serpit said.
“You feel me?”

All’s well that ends well — Serpit made it out with several cans of brew and everyone’s okay.

Yes, Walter, we feel you. There’s something way-human in your action — and you seem a nice guy.
Not like this shithead pretending to be ‘normal’ and just outspoken — North Carolina Republican Don Yelton says he’s not a racist:

“When a n—– can use the word n—– and it not be considered racist, that’s the utmost racism in the world, and it’s hypocrisy,” he told me, a reporter calling to see if he’d been unfairly branded a racist.

Yelton was fired from his job as county precinct chairman after appearing on The Daily Show acting like a shithead.
Also: He also noted that local Republicans have long complained that they can’t get enough media coverage, and that he had finally provided some.

Now, that’s news that fits way-way-too tight, but feels Republican normal.