Thursday link dump: Clown attack

• "Man believed clowns were attacking home in Roberts, Wis."
• Mathematician George Szpiro has a cunning plan: Send fractional congresspeople to Washington.
• A minor league baseball team will solve unemployment by giving out Alvin Greene action figures.
• The Louisiana Senate race will just get uglier and uglier.
• Negotiations on a utilities-only cap in a hypothetical energy bill that Democrats will be too cowardly to pass are going well!

Alex Pareene

Alex Pareene writes about politics for Salon and is the author of "The Rude Guide to Mitt." Email him at apareene@salon.com and follow him on Twitter @pareene

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