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Quote o’ the Week: The following statement is the funniest thing I’ve seen in a while, although The Onion is outdoing itself of late:

I have no possible explanation for the conservative notion that if we allow gay people to get married, it will lead to duck orgies.

(This is a response to the latest inane statement by Bill O’Reilly; read the full DailyKos entry here..

Also, read Stupid Quotes About Hurricane Katrina.

Founding Editor Donna Ladd is a writer, journalist and editor from Philadelphia, Miss., a graduate of Mississippi State University and later the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, where she was an alumni award recipient in 2021. She writes about racism/whiteness, poverty, gender, violence, journalism and the criminal justice system. She contributes long-form features and essays to The Guardian when she has time, and was the co-founder and editor-in-chief of the Jackson Free Press. She co-founded the statewide nonprofit Mississippi Free Press with Kimberly Griffin in March 2020, and the Mississippi Business Journal named her one of the state's top CEOs in 2024. Read more at donnaladd.com, follow her on Twitter and Instagram at @donnerkay and email her at donna@mississippifreepress.org.