And? Related: I once shook Oprah’s hand at a book signing and told her that she had really helped me come to know myself and love me. But when I showed up at her gate in Santa Barbara, bitch acted like she didn’t even know me. Fine. Set your security guards on me. But I’ll tell you one thing: that’s the last time I ever bake you a zucchini bread,

Yet another reason to cut the size of government: you’ll cut the size of people who work for government, and reduce the number of opportunities for people doing government work to use it as a bridge to crony enrichment. Or I guess you could just pay public sector employees twice as much in wage and compensation as private sector employees make on average, and thereby take away the temptation. Either

James Joyner Doug Mataconis, “Herman Cain Goes For the “Nuts Or Sluts” Defense”: The press conference, for the most part, struck me as a train wreck. The “I don’t remember” defense isn’t an explicit denial even though that’s how Cain wants us to take it, and characterizing a single mother of a 13 year old boy as “troubled” and part of a Democratic conspiracy is the kind of paranoia one

Seems like there might be a pattern forming after all. Just not the ones we’ve been told should “concern” us. Then, of course, there’s the bit we’re being fed about Ms Kraushaar being an “Republican independent.” You know, the kind whose sole political donation, in 2009, went to the DNC services corp. And finally, why no EEOC claims? Are there no reporters out there willing to ask labor legal experts

Cain denies the Bialek allegations entirely. What he hasn’t denied — and which was pressed today, now that Joel Bennett client Karen Kraushaar has allowed her name to be released — is that this former NRA employee is the woman who filed a claim against him (that he knew about); the one with respect to whose claim he then recused himself; the one for which the NRA lifted confidentiality; and

Says he steadfastly denies any allegations that he used sexually inappropriate gestures while funneling guns to Mexican drug cartels. (thanks to geoffB)

Here’s what I gathered about her from the Daily story. Turn-ons: horses, puppies, Truth. Turn-offs: scoliosis, Cuban boys who escape communism, double-breasted suits that exude power.*

Margaret Wente, Globe and Mail: These people make up the Occupier generation. They aspire to join the virtueocracy – the class of people who expect to find self-fulfillment (and a comfortable living) in non-profit or government work, by saving the planet, rescuing the poor and regulating the rest of us. They are what the social critic Christopher Lasch called the “new class” of “therapeutic cops in the new bureaucracy.” The

Wait, a group known for left-wing community organizing with ties to the President involved in the organization and manipulation of a movement whose “message,” such as it is, is presented as in keeping with the President’s own class warfare rhetoric? Shocking. –Or, were the AP writing this story, they’d call this latest suggestion of some connection “unexpected.” Take your pick. (thanks to DarthLevin)

Has the ring of familiarity. On the plus side, it will get read. And that’s a good thing. (thanks to sdferr)