Must-Read Headline of the Day

This is the best post I've read about one of the multiple paths the GOP is taking to oblivion/suicide/irrelevance, and believe you me I've read a lot of them. Far too many good quotes to choose from. Just go...

John Boehner's Monster: How Irrational Racist Hatred For Obama Will Destroy The GOP

Saturday Emmylou Blogging

I love this song! I sing it in the shower. Now, Emmylou can do no wrong but I change one word - to "...smokin' OUTTA Texas with the hammer down...". The wiser choice of actions, I think.

Thanks to Bert van der Waal van Dijk.

Quote of the Day

From "This is your brain on racism: Inside the mind of modern bigotry". Good article, quite long.

Karl Marx once quipped that “violence is the midwife of every old society pregnant with a new one.” Just as surely, however, prejudice is the midwife of violence.