Last line: “whose,” not “who’s.”

Telling employers which sex to favor has never been a problem, it seems like. When men were responsible for supporting their families, that almost made some sense. Today when the women are just as likely to be the main support, since with their lower salaries they’re more likely to get jobs, it makes no sense at all, but nothing has changed there for the wingers.

Whatever fortunes may be your lot, it could only be worse in Sioux City.

Thanks, I’ll try to use stronger coffee tomorrow.

King is almost as loathsome as Tancredo. So I guess being open about your hate and prejudice is okay in the GOP while being open about your sexuality is only okay of you’re straight, (or you’re pretending to be).

Good morning all,

If this aversion these people have to “gay”, like it takes our tax money for them to have sex and who the hell cares what the hell two people do together except perverts. and had an aversion to these stupid wars that do waste our tax dollars and leads to the death of innocent lives we would be better off..

Why would it seem to be the same people anti-abortion ,pro death penalty ,anti gay, pro stand your ground, anti closing Gitmo, pro-endlesswar, I mean come on already.

You has been Bained!

Wherein the worldwide dominance of corporate welfare at the expense of the taxpayer marches on. Defeating the purpose of the social contract, which entails use of common funds for the common good, is the endgame. Welcome to the slave trade mentality.

Good morning, pups. We’ve got Kristof and Collins today. In “Arsenic in Our Chicken?” Mr. Kristof says that two scientific studies suggesting that poultry on factory farms are routinely fed banned antibiotics and other chemicals raise serious questions. Ms. Collins has a question in “Send in the Clowns, and Cheese:” Have you heard about Clown-and-Cheesegate? It’s quite a story about the high cost of bonding over shrimp in Las Vegas.

Here they are.

The coffee and tea are ready, and I’ve got blueberry pancakes for breakfast. Winslow is going to be the death of me — he’s constantly under your feet! Running late, gotta go. Have a great day.

Thanks, Marion, tripping over the cat trying not to step on fluffy has been injurious to some of us here, take care. Kristof getz it, the drugs to make the factory farm profitable aren’t chosen for the care and feeding of us humanz.

Mr. King represents a part of the country we are all glad to be from, emphasizing the from part. When Wolfe wrote, ” You Can’t Go Home Again ” this was the place he was talking about. Iowa’s biggest issue since the 1980′s has been ” the brain drain “. But Mr. King and his fellow travelers can’t put 2 and 2 together on why the rural areas and small towns in Western Iowa are becoming zombievilles. If and when the post offices close, a big topic back there, it will further hasten the isolation of even the county seat population clusters. I don’t feel a bit sorry for them, either. The farmers are incredibly wealthy, many through inheritance, and they don’t work much any more. They’re fat, lazy homophobes who lived of gov’t welfare for decades and now mainly because of ethanol subsidies, large scale livestock operations and wind farms they’ve let Mr. King speak for them. Does anyone, besides the people who baled out of there years ago, see the irony in all this. The hayseeds sure don’t. And those conservative religious institutions thrive off the church donations of these people desperately trying to buy their way into heaven before all the good pews are taken. Egads!

Good morning all.

Driving through N.TX. yesterday, I saw a lot of those newly set up decorative farm cum retirement places up for sale – many retirees lost the funds they had planned to live on in 2007-8, have to live on what’s left and having problems making it. Land poor was a common term in the 30′s, coming back again.

Texas ain’t Iowa. You can dig a hole 4ft deep and still pull the clarion, coal black soil out. Farms are selling for $7000 an acre and people, whose grandparents paid $100 bucks for it or so before WWII, are snarfing it up. On an individual level they’re good folks, but as a group they are led by some pretty twisted people. Mr. King is such a reprobate. I know a lot more about this than I’m willing to say here but suffice it to relate that many personal friends have been unfairly tarnished by this political, economic and religious triangulation. Innuendo hates a vacuum, too. And Mr. King needs to be closeted and not the other way around.

“…people, whose grandparents paid $100 bucks for it or so before WWII, are snarfing it up.”

Agribusiness–engaged in corporate farming– and land developers are snarfing it up. I’m not from eastern Iowa, but where I live, a whole lot of brand new churches and houses and condos (which will sit empty, like those around them) are being built on prime farmland. I’m sick of watching our land being raped.

At 1:30 AM that’s quite understandable. Is Attaturk nocturnal or in, say, Hawaii?

You and me both, brother. I’m in full support of farmer’s markets, truck farms, community gardens, etc. Mr. King represents Western Iowa, btw. The ” pink slime ” defenders won’t tell you that a decade ago this was only used in dog food, by law. I see the regional, sustainable, seasonal food issue as a great way to educate and dislodge the overweening corporate hacks. Sitting down and examining what we put into our pieholes 3-4 times a day without really thinking; that could be earth moving and generate a whole new level of discourse as to who and what has taken over our politics and caused the the widespread disease formerly known as Potomac Fever.

King is an evil fool.

But “ostentatious cubicle Jesus-Fish” tone destroys the rush to join the protest.

We need to fight the 1%, not each other.

Taking a page from their book, could we just eliminate the 1% and claim we saw their suit and feared for our lives because we thought they were bankers?

“That Sikh guy whose name he never bothered to learn”? Probably Mr. Singh.