You're an idiot, and your "facts" are some made-up bullshit. This bill was protested by thousands of Texans and is supported by fewer than a quarter of them. Texas does not rank 50th in healthcare, nor 49th in education. If you're going to go around calling people uneducated, you might want to brush up on your…

Gerrymandering. The urban areas are split up so their votes don't really count.

Makes me think of Dar Williams' song "When I was a Boy":

Before we kick off the Texas bashing lets remember that 80% of the people here oppose this bullshit.

PLEASE, someone tell me that you've seen the paulasbestdishes hashtag. It is brilliant. My favorites so far are Coon on the Cobb, Ku Klux Klam Kakes, Wadin' In The Watermelon and When White Folks Talkin' You Better Hushpuppies. This has made my life.

Two things -

1) We're talking about statements made relatively recently, not in the 1960s. The comment about wanting a "slavery themed wedding" was from 2007.

fat shaming is not cool :(

Ah, the Southern Fuck You, in all its class. I love it so.

The conservative misogynist assholes of America are extremely lucky that I am apparently separated from them by a wide buffer of pro-feminist dudes. I swear to god, if anyone, female or male, ever told me to know my place as a woman, they would be dead before they hit the ground.

Wait, why is she being called a RINO? From what I've read, she is pretty solid Republic (pro-life, anti-taxation, limited government, etc.). The term RINO has become so prevalent that it's lost all meaning. What exactly about her deviates from Republican standards? Or am I guessing correctly that her sex and race…

My first thought when I saw the Wu-Tang square? GOD, PLEASE LET HER SAY THIS.

"It was just a misunderstanTHESOUTHSHALLRISEAGAIN."

That's a pretty good apology. Accepted.

Real apologies happen so rarely, it's like I've forgotten how to accept them.

Aww, they don't like being filibustered? *sad face* Talk about big time hypocrites. The Republicans have abused the filibustering system for the past few years in congress, now they get butthurt when it happens to them.

To all those that "bored" Byron "dumbnut" Cook last night, to all those that sent pizza pies, to all the women (and men) that refuse to back down from this issue:

I had a few friends participate, and I'm so stinkin' proud of them I could burst!

This.... is just all kinds of awesome. Like, I'm actually literally in awesome of these amazing ladies for standing up for their rights like this and REFUSING to back down.

"I don’t think they should be in trouble that could just ruin their lives . . . "

A question: When do people start getting to do stuff that, you know, actually ruins their lives? When they're 18? 21? 30? Never?

Seems to me that if you're old enough to ruin someone else's life (Hello Steubenville!) you're old enough…