Changing the culture in Kentucky isn’t just difficult, it’s nigh impossible. And we’ll never have comprehensive tax reform until it’s too late. [Ronnie Ellis]

What kind of bitch are you? I consider myself to be several kinds. [Click the Clicky]

I found an opponent for Jim Gooch. You may not want to load this if you’re at work. [Perez Hilton]

You know there are no jobs in Kentucky when 2,600 people wait in line for 100 jobs in Lexington. [AP via C-J]

Republican U.S. Senate candidates in Kentucky are spending tens of thousands on television time. But Democrats are playing pat-a-cake. [Roll Call]

This week in crazy: Jim Bunning. He held unemployment benefits hostage in the chamber for days. Behind the scenes, though, shiz was much more weird. [Salon]

St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church in Louisville became the first in the Episcopal Diocese of Kentucky to bless a gay marriage/union/whatever. Meanwhile, the wingnuts are going crazy because their children are being recruited to become limp-wristed drag queens, like Frank Simon. Because we all know that’s how life works. [C-J]

Was the first dirty bird atheist muckraker from Lexington? Hoo boy! [Unreasonable Faith]

What can Frankfort do to screw something else up? Attach anti-abortion amendments to three child welfare bills. Welcome to Kentucky, where a Southern Baptist like David Floyd gets to spread his religious ignorance everywhere he goes. If Greg Stumbo really wants to run for governor, he’ll be overruling these amendments. [Debby Yetter]

Mitch McConnell is not happy with the RNC’s fundraising ploy. Looks like he’s taking his first public steps to oust Michael Steele. [USA Today]

Is the budgetary magic being tossed about in Frankfort the good kind of magic or the bad kind? [Larry Dale Keeling]

The latest SurveyUSA polling data doesn’t mean the end is nigh for the U.S. Senate race. Steve Beshear was 11 points behind this time three years ago. And it doesn’t help that Lt. Dan has spent half of what he’s already raised. [Joe Gerth]