Blanche Lincoln is one of the higher paid wal mart employees.

democrats that scuttle vital progressive labor reforms, nice. Blanche Lincoln, i wish you were my senator so i could vote against you.

Noted Dominionist and American Conservatism icon Paul Weyrich has passed away at 66.

Weyrich was instrumental in Nixon's "Southern Strategy," co-founded the Heritage foundation (with Coors family money,) and co-founded the "Moral Majority" (and apparently came up with the name).

Weyrich may be remembered for such quotes as, "I don't want everybody to vote. Elections are not won by a majority of the people. They never have been from the beginning of our country and they are not now. As a matter of fact, our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down."

In this 1999 letter, Weyrich quixotically urged his followers to "drop out" of culture and embrace "home schooling" because as he said in 1995, "The real enemy is the secular humanist mindset which seeks to destroy everything that is good in this society."

In this article, David Grann described Weyrich as "the Robespierre of the right" and characterized him as paranoid and vindictive. He also was apparently preoccupied with homosexuals whom he described as being preoccupied with sex. He's also attacked the jews, and was subsequently defended by David Horowitz.

In general, he drifted somewhere between a vituperative and dangerous, delusional sociopath and someone who's just no fun at parties.

I try to refrain from saying bad things about people who have recently died, but, as in the case of the late Jerry Falwell, I may have crossed that line again.

Rest in peace, Paul, and may we me be more peaceful without you.

I wish more news organizations actually covered wealth inequity in America, and how it's growing.

Meanwhile, Time's top 10 editorial cartoons have some decent entries, but boy, they're astonishingly gutless choices overall. They avoided anything really pointed, such as the several dozen scathing cartoons on torture.

She's the senator from wal-mart?
What the fuck do you think?
But more than that, lincoln's representative of exactly the flaw in all the rhetoric of hope, especially hope for a more liberal administration: the Bluedawgs. They, along with the (genetically disciplined) Pukes, will block any and every initiative designed to spread power more evenly. Gay-ron-FUCKING-teed, chers!

Mr.O CANNOT control the blue-dawg wing of his Congressional 'majority.' So he panders to it, willing to accept the illusion of "change," which they may possibly grant him, for the reality of actually DOING anything.