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NPRs morning edition did a candy-themed example of where income gains in the US have gone in the past umpty something years. Starting with unequal piles, the poorest people have gained 2 pieces of candy corn. The middle class, 18 pieces of candy corn. The very richest people, 500 pieces. (This was impressive, even as an audio effect.) I'm not sure when that big hoard of candy corn is actually going to cause job creation for the poorest Americans, especially when it can make even more money creating jobs in low wage regions. :::::: grumble :::::::

I'm replacing the phrase "job creators" (um, sure?) with "trickle down creators".

This guy is an Iowa Republican. Not sure why any woman would ever vote for him.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/10/04/1022858/-Rep-Steve-King-misses-the-days-when-only-property-owners-could%C2%A0vote?via=blog_1

Bestsellers that were rejected before they were published. (I've read a lot of them, and bet you have, too.)

http://flavorwire.com/216086/10-best-selling-books-that-were-originally-rejected/10

I just find it faintly odd that it's possible to follow the Dalai Lama on twitter. Enlightenment in 152 chars?

Pretty sure Bachmann's "I'm committed" line is going to echo and re-echo in the political blogospher like Howard Dean's maniacal howls. It probably launched thousands of twitter jokes.

I'm intrigued to see that Congresswoman Maloney and Senator somebody from New Jersey have re-introduced the Equal Rights Amendment to Congress.

More interesting to me to follow as a story than the one who about the Congressman who tweets with his penis.

I looked through a bunch of counter-protest signs against Fred Phelps. The "God is love, hate is stupid" is my favorite.

I don't recommend the link for anyone of tender feelings.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/the-3o-best-anti-westboro-baptist-church-protest-s

Am wriggling with excitement because the local library is finally sending me Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss.

Am currently surfing through Game of Thrones series, but will put them aside temporarily.

Daily Kos does a hate mail roundup. This was their fifth and final paragraph. The one that actually made me chuckle more and clench my fists less.

Since I am most certainly an elitist, I would like to repeat it here for your amusement.

(Describes the fundamentals of authentic hate mail. Number ONE was heavy usage of ALL CAPS.)

Number 5)
"Horrible spelling. I don't mean the sort of typos that plague everyone: I mean spelling in sentence after sentence that would make your young child blush. A good hate mail has so many misspellings that you should not be able to tell if the writer was drunk or sober when they wrote it. Forget basic spellchecking, of the sort present on every goddamn computer on the planet: it is a tool of liberalism. Any fool can write a hate mail, but only a genius can convey their thoughts through a dense fog of misspellings, transpositions, missing apostrophes and incorrect tenses.

Which brings us to our final and most important rule of hate mail: all of this must be done while conveying, through all the spelling mistakes, uppercased letters, disproven claims and imaginary enemies, an absolute sense of superiority. An intellect of my caliber, the sender must imply, does not need to bother themselves with mundanities such as proper spelling, grammar, or reality."

Our forecast week of solid rain has been interrupted by an unexpected sunny morning. Must go frolic!