Nice to Nasty

• Cara continues with the Top 5 Motown Singles of 1970.  Marvelous.
• The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the European Union.  I suppose that means they now have to start a war...
• Women are now allowed to inherit in Botswana.
• Best smackdowns of right-wingers.  (Not necessarily zingers, note.)  Oh, all right, a taste.

  On a September episode of her eponymous MSNBC show, Melissa Harris-Perry had on “business and finance expert” Monica Mehta as one of her guests. Mehta was spouting a lot of right-wing, pro-business, anti-welfare talking points, which Harris-Perry clearly took issue with. The discussion came to a head when Mehta referenced the risks taken by business owners. “What is riskier than living poor in America?” said Harris-Perry, raising her voice. “Seriously, what in the world is riskier than being a poor person in America? I live in a neighborhood where people are shot on my street corner. I live in a neighborhood where people have to figure out how to get their kid into school because maybe it'll be a good school and maybe it won’t. I am sick of the idea that being wealthy is risky. No! There is a huge safety net that whenever you fail will catch you and catch you and catch you. Being poor is what is risky. We have to create a safety net for poor people. And when we won’t, because they happen to look different from us, it is the pervasive ugliness! We cannot do that!"

• Ten conservatives trying to spin slavery as a Good Thing.  I have flushed better digestion by-products.