The Mississippifarian

Wow. NPR just barely managed to mention the Iraq appropriations bill’s defeat in the House before jumping on the California Supreme Court striking down anti-gay marriage laws in that state.

I’ve never quite figured out how I am personally impacted by what you do with your sex organs. If my dick’s not involved, I really do fail to see why it’s any of my business. If it feels good to you and all parties consent to whatever it is you’re doing, go for it. 

Now the radio’s back to the business of fundraising for MPR, which, after all, is what public radio is all about: semi-affluent listeners underwriting the cost of delivering pro-establishment news targeted to the truly affluent. Without your help, Bill Kling can’t keep making half a million dollars a year for having had the genius to privatize public radio in Minnesota.

Bill Kling was Maggie Thatcher long before anyone had heard of Maggie Thatcher. Bill Kling was remixing NPR feeds until NPR restructured their entire feed system to put a stop to local public radio networks slicing and dicing their product. Bill Kling also runs MPR-affiliated for-profit businesses, helping to make him the highest paid head of a non-profit organization in Minnesota.

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Take the 2008 Ask A Working Woman Survey. Unless, of course, you don’t qualify.

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Jane Hamsher says they’re doing an end around, but the upshot is that yes, Obama’s going to help pay off HRC’s campaign debt. 

Even though HRC paid her ridiculously overpaid consultants in full, stiffing local printing outfits and landlords in almost every state she campaigned in.

Even though HRC ran the most negative, disparaging campaign of any our of candidates, Mike Gravel included.

Even though we need that money to win this fall.

Just because HRC said give me money or I’ll keep beating you up. It’s time to get real and admit to ourselves that in this race Hillary’s been the traditional male (loutish, drunk and demanding), while Barack’s been the perfect lady (polite, deferential, willing to compromise, etc.).

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Al finally hires a campaign manager. 

All that money and he didn’t have one? The phrase penny wise, pound foolish springs to mind.

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A Pulitzer Prize winner has signed the “fire Katherine Kersten” petition.