Yes. Hers is that

benign racism that pervades the South (and exports poorly). I have known people like her all. of my. life. Fellow Southerners tend to excuse her "truth", repeating a variation of 'everybody I know talks like this, that's why there's nothing wrong with it'. Low expectations have NOTHING on soft bigotry like actual 21st century bigotry. It's like buttah, smeared all over her just like it is her recipes.

The classic question -- at least for me -- was when Chris Rock was asked by a white lady why it was OK for black people to use the N-word and not white people. His response?

"Why do you want to use it?"

Extremely doubtful

for a generation or two. But Texas CAN be won much sooner, and when that happens, the South -- and with it, the GOP -- are immediately irrelevant. I would think this scenario is particularly important to accomplish if the SCOTUS strikes down the VRA.

#PaulasBestDishes

These aren't liberals.

These are neoliberals. Which are closer to being neoconservatives than they are to actual liberals and progressives.

Very important distinction

Greenwald mentioned in yesterday morning's segment (where he got inot it with Mika B) that 'probable cause' has been revised to 'reasonable basis', and that is why, of the 1079 FISA warrants requested by NSA recently, only one was declined.

This is not oversight, it's a rubber stamp.

I have empathy for them

and it is also accurate that many of them must begin voting consistently, and they must also vote for people who don't want to just watch them suffer and die.

This seems intrinsic, but it is not.

They could have fired the

four corporate executives who came up with this idea and perhaps saved even more. Which demonstrates once more how incompetent newspaper managers are. They took a business where they earned 30% profit margins for decades and screwed the pooch.

My Petition for Obama to Invite Medea Benjamin to the White House for a Beer

19 Democrats voted for it

Here are the Democrats who voted for pulling the president's authority to approve the Keystone XL pipeline.

John Barrow (GA-12) Blue Dog
Sanford Bishop (GA-02) Blue Dog
Cheri Bustos (IL-17)
Jim Cooper (TN-05) Blue Dog
Jim Costa (CA-16) Blue Dog
Henry Cuellar (TX-28) Blue Dog
William Enyart (IL-12)
Al Green (TX-09)
Gene Green (TX-29)
Ruben Hinojosa (TX-15)
Sean Maloney (NY-12)
Sean Matheson (UT-04) Blue Dog
Mike McIntyre (NC-07) Blue Dog
Patrick Murphy (FL-18)
William Owens (NY-21)
Colin Peterson (MN-07) Blue Dog
Terri Sewell (AL-07)
Filemon Vela (TX-34)
John Yarmuth (KY-03)

"Killer Boobs"

In light of Angelina Jolie's disclosure, I would wish to point to a lady I know who wrote a blog, and then a book, with the title above about her own experience with breast cancer.

http://www.amyshealth.com/killer-boobs-now-available-1569

If we strongly support women who choose this particular option for the sake of their health -- who must summon the physical and emotional strength to fight their disease and who must at the same time disregard our society's opinion, evaluation, or judgment of their choice -- then we perhaps change society just a little.

Which is way overdue as it regards women's choices as it is.