The Susan G. Komen-Planned Parenthood Debacle

Despite their protestations to the contrary, the closer you look at the Susan G. Komen for the Cure mess this week, the more it looks like a couple of twisted ladies at the top wanted to take the organization in a whole new right-wing direction.

Gail Collins has a few of the details and a prognostication I agree with: "A lot of the old Komen donors and supporters probably won’t be coming back."

In the past few weeks we've seen this thing called the social media rise up and – within just a couple of days – put an end to things that were better off not started: the Komen thing, and the SOPA/PIPA thing.

That's pretty impressive, but also worrisome. Is this a new form of democratic expression, or a new form of mob rule? If mob rule, then right now the mob seems to be a little brighter than our meritorious leaders. But what will happen when Republicans learn how to use computers for something besides Quicken? I shudder to think.