jesse helms

If you are wondering, which I’m sure you were, I think I have a low-burning ADD. My oldest niece has this as well. She turns 12 next week and I’m afraid she’s turning out a bit like me much to sister Homer’s dismay.

Oh, and she’s cuter.

For one North Carolina state employee it was taking a stand against Jesse Helms:

L.F. Eason III gave up the only job he’d ever had rather than lower a flag to honor former U.S. Sen. Jesse Helms.

For one North Carolina state employee it was taking a stand against Jesse Helms:

L.F. Eason III gave up the only job he’d ever had rather than lower a flag to honor former U.S. Sen. Jesse Helms.

Politico looks at the fundraising prowess of Jesse Helms:

Richard Viguerie, a big booster of current Libertarian presidential candidate Bob Barr, praises Jesse Helms for his role in supplanting the libertarian Old Right with a new militaristic New Right:

Left Wing Cracker represents the conventional reaction of the left to the news of the passing of former Senator Jesse Helms:

I unplugged.

I know, so odd but I was in a place that didn’t have wireless and healed from the strep throat even though I’m still having trouble hearing. It’s better though and that is of the good.

You know how unplugged I was? I will tell you. Homer had to tell me at Big Daddy’s yesterday that Jesse Helms had died.

Over at Gawker, we are reminded that it is not kind to speak ill of the dead, Hitler was kind to animals and all that, but check out this old ad from Jesse Helms, the bigot:

The AP headline tells you everything you need to know: "Jesse Helms: Polarizer, not a compromiser." If only the GOP had more Jesse Helmses, and fewer John McCains.

I'm inclined to lean more towards Martin Lewis's final salute to Jesse here than I am the folks who paid tribute to the man in the ABC news story...