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    Chomsky on Geithner (and some Colbert Comedy)

    Noam Chomsky on the economy and democracy Pt2

    Noam Chomsky on the economy and democracy Pt3

    Stephen’s Angry Mob Will Crush AIG (click to show/hide Colbert video)

    The government can’t stop AIG but Stephen’s angry mob will crush these punks. He pulls [...]



    The Campaign System is Broken and Everyone Knows It

    Political fundraising has often been viewed as a corrupting influence in politics. Now it’s increasingly being seen by politicians as a roadblock to doing their jobs well. Republican Senator George Voinovich has had enough. Will stories like his breathe new life into the reform movement?

    It is nice to see a Republican Senator admit that the campaign finance system [...]



    christian men: do you know if your wife is truly female?

    Today is Write to Marry Day, when like-minded bloggers are speaking out against Proposition 8 in California, and all of the other anti-gay marriage constitutional amendments and legislative initiatives past and present.

    While this may come as a shock to the Mormons and Catholics and Evangelicals behind Prop 8, either their god is completely ignorant of biology, or he’s the biggest practical joker [...]



    militia-madness is back

    And Sarah Palin is their poster girl:

    Federal agents have broken up a plot by two neo-Nazi skinheads to assassinate Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and shoot or decapitate 102 black people, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco Firearms and Explosives said Monday.

    In court records unsealed Monday in U.S. District Court in Jackson, Tenn., federal agents said they disrupted plans to rob a gun [...]



    no longer the hero

    if he ever was, McCain has become Richard III, Iago and Macbeth rolled into one.

    He is the scheming, lame and eternally bitter Richard of Gloucester, needing to kill all goodness around him so as to never face that contrast to his black soul, and needing war, too, as peace gives him nowhere to put his rage:

    But I, that am not shaped [...]



    Palinology

    David Michael Green publishes another near perfect post about Palinology:

    Whoa and Woe: Living In Sarah Palin’s America (collapsible content, click to show/hide)

    I can’t tell you how despondent I’ve grown in the last weeks.

    Is there really no hope for this country, after all? It now appears so.

    In January of 2003, John Le Carre wrote that, “America has entered one [...]



    on the brink of real change

    A 25-year Special Forces veteran, who allegedly was rejected from a job after they learned she was transgender, gets her day in court.

    “It’s been a bumpy road,” said Schroer after the trial, “but I’m glad I’m on it.”

    Diane Schroer stepped foot in court Tuesday in a discrimination lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union on her behalf. The ACLU says [...]

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