I think they're starting to panic.

::pops popcorn, passes it around::

brenda, your point is well taken. I am being mean about it.

Oh, I don't buy it for a second. But it does at least include the words "I was wrong". (Though the mea culpa reads a bit like snark, so take some points back.)

The concept of constituents making enough noise to sway their representatives more than party "leaders" and the big money donors is a stunning turn to the interesting.

Before the Komen defeat there was the SOPA reaction. It will be very interesting indeed to see where this shiny new power leads.

I think that part of Limbaugh's problem is that he, like many partisan pundits, sometimes forgets that he's actually dealing with a populace. He just opposes whatever the opposition's supporting, which is a knee-jerk reaction that is not always in line with his listenership.

This time, he forgot that only a small portion of his audience actually is opposed to birth control on moral grounds. In fact, a large percentage of it actually uses it. So slut-shaming that was aimed at an anonymous person actually hit women and their husbands who are listening to his show. And his deliberate misunderstanding of how it works was instantly recognizable by those women, unlike some of his more whackaloon but less disprovable views.

I'm reading that his demographics suggest only 13% of his listeners are female.

However, I'm getting more and more skeptical. I keep seeing ratings all over the map, and I think it's all proprietary, not at all Neilsen-like in that these ratings are easily found and you can see what the method is.

The Cut Direct

The StuntHusband got to use that recently at a social event, directed toward someone neither of us associate with any longer. He was quite gleeful about it.

30 advertisers now.

checks list Oh yay, Goodwill pulled their advertising! I don't have to change my thrift shopping habits.

Laura, did you think it was a deliberate misunderstanding, or that he really just doesn't know?

I keep thinking he actually has no idea how birth control is used.

ETA, Liese. I was sending an email to a Laura and just had a brain burp, sorry!

So! Yesterday we bought beads at an upscale hippie shop ("No, we won't do it for you, but we will enable you to do it yourself!"), saw some stunning sculpture, ate green chile cheeseburgers, and chilled by the fire.

Today I bought a $400 down coat for $99, cried unexpectedly at the Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis, ate $7 Kobe sliders, saw Beauregard's post-impressionism at the New Mexico Museum of Art, ate Hamentaschen at the Haagen Dazs where the KGB plotted the assassination of Trotsky.

And it's just Tuesday!

Next up, knife-skills class. I put my Chicago cutlery in my knitting roll-up. Fear me.

I keep thinking he actually has no idea how birth control is used.

I can't quite believe that an adult in his position wouldn't know how the Pill is taken, but that doesn't mean anything. I'm a little more inclined to believe he was ranting and got carried away with his story and sort of lumped something like Plan B in with the Pill, which still isn't accurate, of course.

That said, attributing malicious misunderstanding to him is fine with me.