Rachel Does The View

Rachel Maddow Joins the Women of The View

Rachel Maddow chats with the grrrls on The View. Rachel talks about how she met her partner of ten years, Susan Mikula (she was doing some yard work for her and when Susan came to the door, stars and comets went off and they have been together ever since - awwww). She discusses her thoughts on President Obama (the right person at the right time and a "big thinker"), and her growing up (she was a tomboy with long blond hair who looked like one of the Hanson boys). She also touches on how she came out (in a very obnoxious way at age 17), and how she got her own TV show (she doesn't know - oh, come on?). It's a charming interview (as charming as Rachel herself). Enjoy.

Toto, Who Will be the Next Governor of Kansas?

That would be Lt. Governor Mark Parkinson - the person who will succeed Governor Kathleen Sebelius as the next governor of Kansas. He is a Democrat, but you wouldn't know that by reading his biography on the Kansas government web site. In fact, his name was never mentioned in any report that I read today announcing Sebelius's nomination for the head of the Department of Health and Human Services. I had to do some hunting to discover the rules of succession in Kansas when a sitting governor vacates her seat, mid-term.

"The office of the Lieutenant Governor has been substantially restructured in the past two decades, but the most important function still is to succeed to the governorship should that office become vacant."