Learning is hard. It's hard work.

Things I learned from The Poor Man today:

1. Apparently, running abortion clincs is very profitable! Champagne and cigars for all the baby killers, according to *shudder* Kaye Grogan. This is very much news for me. Which is funny, because I thought it was more profitable to sell the names of people who donated money to the Schiavo's to anti-abortion and conservative groups! Okay, that last bit I learned from World O'Crap

2. The Poor Man pretty much rules:

Well, I think Andrew Sullivan owes Paul Krugman an apology or fifty as well, and I think there’s going to be a lot of people defaulting on these sorts of debts. And it’s not really the important thing. Now that we realize that this is the party of Dennis Prager and Kaye Grogan, the important thing becomes not “what are you going to say to Sully the Pooh” but “what are you going to do.” Asking oneself “why do they keep playing me for a chump?” is a question that chumps are always asking themselves, a question which answers itself, chumps.

Yes, the Republican Party is primarily concerned with A) diminishing the government’s power over large corporations and the very rich, and B) pandering to a sizeable constituency who want to increase the government’s power over every other facet of American life, and over the rest of the world, in accordance with God’s Holy Bible, a book they have not read. Here is the platform of the Texas Republican Party, the party of Bush and DeLay, a platform which proposes to “dispel the “myth” of the separation of church and state”, oh, and eliminate the IRS, the ATF, the EPA, the DoE, HUD, HHS, Education, Commerce, Labor, and the Surgeon General, evict the UN, and teach Creationism in science classes, praise Jesus. That’s the Republican position - or at least the position of those Republicans currently in charge of the party - and it will remain the position of the party, like it or not, until such time as it stops winning elections. Until such time, in other words, as y’all stop acting surprised every time they do what they say they want to do, and stop supporting them.

However, one must note, in the interest of Kristofian non-partisan fairness, that none of this makes Michael Moore any slimmer.

However part 2, this makes him righter. Ah. Okay, I got that one from Hoffmania. But I am sure TPM already knew it!

Oh, and for the record? I like the new layout and that's a black cat and a pumpkin, morons.