Writer writes an article about "How the myth of the welfare queen died". Comments immediately prove her wrong - the myth is, in fact, alive and kicking.

This would seem strange...

The latest survey from Democratic-leaning Public Policy Polling, provided exclusively to TPM, showed an eye-popping divide among Republicans in the Bayou State when it comes to accountability for the government's post-Katrina blunders.

Twenty-eight percent said they think former President George W. Bush, who was in office at the time, was more responsible for the poor federal response while 29 percent said Obama, who was still a freshman U.S. Senator when the storm battered the Gulf Coast in 2005, was more responsible. Nearly half of Louisiana Republicans — 44 percent — said they aren't sure who to blame.

.. if you didn't know that, to a Republican, cross-eyed screaming idiocy is the highest state of consciousness that one can achieve. It's like zen, except you have to replace calm reflection with knee-jerk hatred. Turn off your critical thinking facilities, relax, and let the anger sweep you away.

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The referees have declined to review the play. The touchdown stands.

Ttongsul

TO PATRIOTIC UNMARRIED LADIES. - I am a soldier, just returned from the wars. Have lost a leg, but expect to get a cork one; have a useless arm, but will be called brave for it; was once good-looking, but am now scarred all over. If any patriotic young lady will marry me, why fall in line! The applicant must be moderately handsome, have an excellent education, play on the piano and sing; and a competency will not be objectionable. One with these requirements would, doubtless, secure my affections. - Address Capt. F.A.B., MERCURY Office. (Nov. 9, 1862)

or...

IF THE LADY WHO, FROM AN OMNIBUS, SMILED on a gentleman with a bunch of bananas in his hand, as he crossed Wall Street, corner of Broadway, will address X., box 6,735 Post Office, she will confer a favor. (March 21, 1866)

I love that. Though it needs proper formatting:

If the lady who,
From an omnibus smiled
On a gentleman with
A bunch of bananas in his hand
As he crossed Wall Street
Corner of Broadway,
Will address X
PO Box six seven three five,
She will confer
A favor

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Young Republicans who helped elect North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory have been rewarded with big salaries in his new administration.

Matthew McKillip was named this week as chief policy adviser to Health and Human Services Secretary Aldona Wos. Records show the 24-year-old McKillip received a $22,500 raise in April, bringing his taxpayer-supported salary to $87,500.

Records show 24-year-old DHHS Communications Director Ricky Diaz got a $23,000 raise in April, boosting his state salary to $85,000.

Sean Connery, Zardoz

You call them drones, I call them AWESOME^* !

* - Autonomous Warmaking Engines Stealthily Observing My Escapades

I look at the Middle East and I see Central America in the 1980's -- an endless series of half-baked and bloody civil wars with the United States clumsily deciding which group of thugs to support -- but with more severe potential consequences and the added accelerant of religious mania. Our instincts back then were always lousy, and our choices back then were almost always bad. I don't see either the instincts or the choices as having improved very much here. The fact is that nobody knows what to do about Egypt -- or Syria, for that matter -- until the people there decide to stop slaughtering each other. If nobody knows nothing, then the safest course may be to do nothing.

Damn right. We don't need to be in the business of supporting murderous juntas.