What I have learned this week – or at least have had reinforced aren’t on this list.

What I know is this: progressives can ignore a LOT of things in the hopes of keeping folks allied and working on the same goal. The Komen folks are sue-happy monsters who are led by some pretty staunch conservatives and can’t run their operation lean enough to be seen as a “good” charitable organization by nearly any measure.

But they were working on curing breast cancer, bringing awareness, and building a community. Which, of course, they have spent this week taking a steaming dump on.

And this leads to my other observation. When awoken to betrayal, progressives can teach religious zealots a thing or two about righteous indignation. By studiously ignoring some truly bad business practices, they woke up wondering how Komen got to be such horrible people. Well, they already WERE horrible people, they’d just been given a pass for too long.

And thus, when never getting their hand slapped the first dozen plus times for sneaking into the cookie jar, they, and everyone who wasn’t paying attention, were shocked at the reaction when they overreached the first time.

The lesson? Pay attention to the actions of people even when they are saying nice things to you. Eddie Haskell was probably stealing the Cleavers’ blind when they weren’t looking. You *knew* he was a snake. Why did they let him into the house in the first place?

The big update today is that the Stingy Goon Komen for the Crass people are “giving in” to their plan to defund Planned Parenthood. First, they haven’t. They have decided they’ll still open their mail when they ask for money. Which is like me telling the Klan/GOP I won’t immediately burn their mail on receipt. In short, it means nothing.

Second, an outfit with huge admin costs who went all in for the Galtists/Talibangelicals just wants to sweep their hatred under the rug. Those a-holes have got another thing coming if they think any pink item ends up in our shopping carts. Screw them.

Third, this is another of those damned non-apologies. Stop pretending they are.

Fourth, they swear they won’t give money to outfits under criminal investigation. So how did Penn State get $70-odd million dollars? Hmmm.

Anyway, here is some earlier reporting, starting off with this critique of the politics of the decision.

MaddowBlog reporting from the beginning, yesterday, and this morning.

Here is that deleted retweet you may have heard of from Komen’s VP of Bigotry Karen Handel.

Last but not least is this Joan Walsh article on the practice or GOP religious bullying and bigotry across the board.