Amazon Mechanical Turk.

In the 18th century, a Hungarian invented a chess-playing automaton, known as “the mechanical Turk,” which could defeat nearly any opponent that played it. The contraption was full of mechanics, amazing some of the world’s leading figures. It was a hoax, of course — there was enough room in the device to conceal the individual …

I ♥ Ken Hutcheson.

Today, former Kilgore campaign manager Ken Hutcheson sent an angry e-mail to Virginia Club for Growth President Phil Rodokankis, in response to his column about the Kilgore campaign. The crux of Rodokankis column was that Kilgore wasn’t nearly anti-tax enough, and that Hutcheson had committed the mortal sin of previously working for Sen. Chichester, who …