Maria Niles

Sooo true! Also, great reminder. Often, they are what we call 'blessings in disguise'...... - Merna Throne

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Book publishing is a "hits" business, with a tiny fraction of huge sellers--thank you Dan Brown, Malcolm Gladwell, and soon, Sarah Palin--carrying the rest of us losers. Publishers don't care about dropping money on 99 books if the 100th is a Tipping Point or Freakonomics. This also characterizes the music business and we can see how well that turned out, but I digress. - Maria Niles

Paradoxically, I urge the GOP to continue along its self-marginalizing path with its chosen "Southern strategy." Go ahead, drag out every last ugly thing most people are too polite or too thoughtful or both to root their decisions in, and play to your increasingly small base while you repel everyone else. Marginalize yourself and threaten to hold your breath until you get your way. The rest of us will continue to call out and reject the incivility, backwardness, intolerance and selfishness that comprise racist fantasies of superiority and entitlement. Because the sooner we as a people abandon racism as a means to governing, the sooner we'll actually have a government, policies, and a people that work for all--for everyone, even that man on the street. - Maria Niles