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88 percent of governors (about every nine out of ten) in the United States are male, and another 88 percent are white. America is a very diverse place. Its governors, on the other hand...not so much.

Double-dipping is a "no go" in the real world of eating chips and salsa with a circle of friends but an everyday reality in the world of lobbyists and PR professionals, including President Obama and his inner circle of confidants.

Enter double-dipper Anita Dunn, former White House Communications Director for President Barack Obama who now runs the firm SKDKnickerbocker, which happens to do PR work for the much-maligned Keystone XL pipeline.

In the past 30 days, the global oil industry has had 13 spills on three continents. And it's not just pipeline leaks. Oil has spilled offshore and on, at train derailments and during routine maintenance.

Astonishingly, it was Griftasaurus palinii who first stumbled upon the "fix" during her nanosecond-long run for the presidency. Never the brightest bulb in the Cretaceous candelabra, she nonetheless manifested a certain ability to transcend her limited abilities through guile. When paleo-pundits pointed out her butchering of historical facts, the gritty Griftasaurus sauntered over to the pages of Wikipaleopedia and rewrote history to dovetail with her twisted utterances. Voila! Problem solved!

Fellow Griftasaurus G. karlroveii was quick to jump on the revisionist bandwagon, using a disproportionate share of his ill-gotten SuperPAC gains to purchase a controlling share in YouTube, enabling him to obliterate most of his own recorded gaffes along with the Mesozoic mischief of his hand-picked paleo-political cronies.

Rep. Don Young, the gruff Republican veteran who represents the entire state of Alaska, issued an apology after referring to Hispanic migrant workers as "wetbacks."

The 79-year-old Young, the second-most senior Republican in the House, issued a statement late Thursday saying he "meant no disrespect" in using the derogatory term to describe the workers on his father's farm in central California, where he grew up.

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If you haven't seen them on the television or come across their interviews on the radio or in newspapers and magazines, then you've almost certainly seen their work as your eyes scan the climate change section in your local book store or library.

They are the authors of books claiming to reveal the "real truth" about global warming and climate change - that it's either all a hoax, that it's overblown bad science from green ideologues or an elaborate illusion and wrongheaded nonsense.

Whatever you think of climate change or the Keystone XL pipeline, you may not simultaneously claim that the problem with oil markets is high demand while also claiming that increasing oil prices would make the problem worse.

Representations of Rosa Parks as a woman who was tired and sat down on a bus in Montgomery sparking the Montgomery Boycott, led by King, in no way tells us the real story of Rosa Parks, or of the other women who were key in the movement. Her history of activism before the bus incident was, for many reasons, obscured. But no longer.

There is a reason Mississippi, once a solidly Democratic state, is a modern-day Republican stronghold. But it's not the reason you might think.

Stormy weather broke the the Kulluk drill ship away from its tow ropes and within hours it had run aground. The Coast Guard safely evacuated 18 crew members from the ship and is now watching for any spills. The Kulluk has has about 155,000 gallons of fuel on board according to Coast Guard Commander Shane Montoya.

"My little boy, he has anger problems," said Obliviun from beneath the brim of his unusually large cowboy hat. "The wife and I sometimes don't know what that little dickens is going to do or say from moment to moment, so neither of us is without at least one 9mm piece when we are all home together. I keep a loaded Sig-Sauer in my bedside table, a Glock under my pillow and a Colt .357 in my right hand when I sleep, just in case the scamp shows up in our room at night."

This is the second part of a series of posts analyzing California's propositions:

Vote Yes on Proposition 30 - Jerry Brown's Budget Plan



Vote No on Proposition 31 - Changes to State Budgeting



Vote No on Proposition 32 - Union-busting