This has been a pretty shitty week for those of us who were horrified by the debt ceiling drama, and who think about things like the future of the country.

And then we have freak shows like this revival in Houston…

…or repulsive levels of child poverty in America.

But then I read something that just made my fucking day, and so I want to share it with my fellow Stinquers.  The source? None other than Dolly Parton, but it doesn’t involve lesbians at the amusement park.

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The Stock Market’s crashing again, Standard & Poor’s hates America, Rick Perry is holding his God-In today… We’re just gonna hide in our Lego Batcave until all this blows over.

“The U.S. Postal Service reported Friday that it suffered a net $3.1 billion loss in the three months ending June 30. Without the intervention of Congress, the service said, it will default on payments it owes the federal government in September.” [The Hill]

Our guest columnist is Christopher Guerrero of the California Democratic Party.

For years, Democrats in California ceded inland areas of the state to the Republican Party.

That ends today as we take the fight into one of the GOP’s final remaining strongholds in California: the Inland Empire.

Right now, the CDP is partnering with Democrats in the Inland Empire to run the first coordinated voter registration drive in San Bernardino and Riverside counties, and we are starting to see results.

People are coming up to our volunteers and thanking them or telling them that they didn’t even realize what they believed in made them a Democrat.

California Democrats need to stand together and offer encouragement. If you have a story about turning one of your Republican family members into a Democrat or helping your area turn Democratic (or even just a little “bluer”), please share it today so we can all see that It Gets Bluer.

Share your story of how it got bluer for you at ItGetsBluer.com now.

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In these tough economic times, and as a public service, Fox Nation would like to remind you that the man currently occupying the White House is a nigger who hangs out with other niggers:

With a long history of racist garbage emanating from its on screen personalities, it quite frankly boggles the mind that this network is treated as a respectable organ of information, rather than the propaganda arm of the Ku Klux Klan that, time and time again, it shows itself to be.

(Via Crooks and Liars)

Silent Creative Partner doesn’t follow politics and pays little attention to news, which makes him a far more typical American than we’ll ever hope to be. He’s solidly liberal in outlook — something we used to think was typically American — although we doubt he would label himself as such, because he doesn’t see himself in those terms.

(Not that we care for labels either — if forced to declare, we’d sign up for the Cannibal Anarchist Party — but obviously we travel with progressives, even if we don’t wear the uniform.)

Living in Southern California, the economy hasn’t really touched him, and while you can find teabaggers if you go looking for them, they’re not part of our daily landscape. Even government itself, which here as elsewhere permeates and underwrites our existence, isn’t quite visible — yes, we have cops and streets and garbage collection and an airport and even a military base up the road, but you can go very long stretches without quite being aware of what enables your bliss.

Which is, really, the Genius of America — at least for us Left Coast white males who benefit from it. Like Steve Jobs says, it just works.

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“Country star Dolly Parton has personally apologized to a lesbian couple that was stopped at the entrance to her Dollywood theme park because one of the women wore a T-shirt that read, ‘marriage is so gay.'” [NY Daily News]