GW Bush did do some commendable things as President, including, for example, pressing to funds to help fight AIDS in Africa. And one of those commendable things he did was to sign legislation instructing the Smithsonian to start planning for this museum, and saying he believed it should be built on the national Mall.

It is common. More common among christian foreign adoptions.

There is a huge problem in this country with children being adopted from shady overseas agencies by Christian fundamentalists, and then being 're-homed' (often to sexual predators) after they fail to be the perfectly obedient Christian children their adoptive parents expect. Several countries have had to cut off…

Yes, and so much of it is because these families are completely unprepared for the needs of the children they are adopting. They come in with some nonsense narrative about "firm discipline" and "all these kids need is love" and find it is so much harder than that. So they give up and hand the kids over to the first…

I hope this results in more attention on the gray market for children. Rehoming is common and tragic.

I saw her on the Today Show with Hoda Kotb and Kathie Lee Gifford. All was going well until the commercial break when she asked Hoda, "What are you anyway?"

Who's trying to shame her off the planet? Nobody has a right to a successful cooking show and the adoration of the American public. Let her quietly hie off to Savannah with her gazillion dollars and have a nice life for all I care.

Fudge is a fucking American folk art and she has DESECRATED IT.

Velveeta is fine but it does not need to go into fudge. ever. ever ever ever. EVER EVER EVER.

She's a flaming racist. She admitted to using the N word decades ago, but I think we all know she's probably used it a few times since. But that's speculation. Stay with me now, because you didn't actually read Ginger's comment carefully. She planned a plantation-themed party for a wedding, with all black servers, she…

You're exactly right. And way too much of white America is fully invested in that same romanticization. We're a century and a half from the Civil War and we're still taking tours of plantation homes and being nostalgic for the antebellum South. Hell, a huge percentage of white America still thinks the Civil War wasn't…

A few years ago, before all this happened, I made her basic pound cake recipe. It used more vegetable shortening than butter. And, while very pretty, tasted like shit. I feel like that experience is representative of her as a human being.

As a former fan, I won't be going back. Paula Deen is permanently curdled, in my estimation.

Sure, America loves a comeback narrative. She's a loveable mascot for every American who has ever been upset that they can't say the "N" word when "all those rap songs do." And besides, since the narrative has only focused on how she said the "N" word once in a fit of anger, and ignored her other (equally troubling)…

As long as I have Martha, I have no need for Paula. But, butter? Butter can always stay.