Occasionally, Frankfort does something in a bipartisan manner. Here’s hoping their bipartisanship on the prescription drug nightmare in Kentucky is genuine. [H-L] Health departments across Kentucky are facing cuts amid growing demand. Legislators just kind of roll their eyes at the situation. [Debby Yetter] The long-term unemployment situation in America just got a lot worse. [...]

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Oh, look, it’s Hal Rogers telling you he knows what’s better for women than the actual women: He’s probably keeping umpteen people on the dole for this mess. So let’s abort all children forever.

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Get real, Lexington po-leece, people are too fat to bother with using the sidewalk there. You’d think Jim Gray, loving balls as he does (I said it! Stop reading if you don’t like it, meemaw), would have enough of them to know it’s ridiculous to take a page out of Greg Fischer’s embarrassing playbook in [...]

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Just like that, Greg Stumbo admitted he was just strutting around like a rooster and pretending that state legislative districts would get redrawn this year. [Bluegrass Politics] When will a legislator in Frankfort press for legislators to be drug tested? This needs to happen right now. [HuffPo] The legislature is still scrambling to pay $44 [...]

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New information is being released about Gatewood Galbraith’s final days. Looks like complications from emphysema were the reason for his death. [WKYT] Lookit how many people are freaking out over Hal Rogers’ home county maybe getting split in half. But not really. Because the Republicans won’t allow that to happen. [Joe Gerth] And here’s even [...]

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A mouth-breathing anti-gay nutter named Bill Johnson (not that one) got caught in a lesbian sperm donation scandal. [HuffPo] Wonder where the Herald-Leader got its idea for a story about the crazy Hart County superintendent and his creationism fantasies? [H-L] Hal Rogers absolutely loves giving your tax dollars to his friends and family. Nothing has [...]

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Here’s Hal Rogers talking about prescription drugs: The problem continues to grow and he never bothers to examine his own actions (and inaction) that haven’t done anything to curb the problem. Interesting. Maybe it’s time we start looking to other countries for ways to resolve these problems.

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Greg Fischer’s campaign finance bait and switch got more interesting as he claimed his campaign fund had nothing to do with his inaugural fund. He’s lying to your face. [The 'Ville Voice] Ruh ro – here come the big dogs calling Greg Fischer out for pulling a campaign finance bait and switch. [C-J/AKN] Here’s hoping [...]

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This is the dumbest shit we have ever heard. Really, Andover Forest Subdivision? Fining a family $50 a day and fighting to take a playhouse away from a kid with Cerebral Palsy? What the shit kind of hateful crack are you people smoking? You live in KENTUCKY – not Beverly Hills. Get a fucking grip, [...]

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Way to go, Pike County! How do you make Eastern Kentucky look more racist and backwater than it actually is? Push your church to take a stand against interracial couples. And then sound like slack-jawed yokels in interviews. [H-L] What was that, again, about Steve Beshear “balancing” the budget umpteen times? Because some state agencies [...]

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