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    For there is another kind of violence, slower but just as deadly destructive as the shot or the bomb in the night. This is the violence of institutions; indifference and inaction and slow decay. This is the violence that afflicts the poor, that poisons relations between men because their skin has different colors. This is the slow destruction of a child by hunger, and schools without books and homes without heat in the winter.

    This is the breaking of a man's spirit by denying him the chance to stand as a father and as a man among other men. And this too afflicts us all.

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    merit pay ain’t the way

    There is no question that Barack Obama will be a better president for the state of education in this country than George “is our children learning” Bush could ever hope to be, and almost anything would be better than Bush’s odious, expensive, top-heavy and radically stupid No Child Left Behind.

    That being said, merit pay is just another Republican red herring and should be round-filed along [...]



    i don’t want to hear the name tawana brawley ever again

    And I’m going to make a point of remembering the name Ashley Todd.

    (CNN) — A Republican campaign worker who told police she was assaulted by a man angered by a John McCain sticker on her car admitted she made up the report, the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, assistant police chief said Friday.

    Ashley Todd, 20, of College Park, Texas, will be charged with filing a false police report, [...]



    it’s pat!

    I don’t watch much teevee, so my exposure to Sarah Palin has been largely audio. Every time I hear her speak, I’d swear it’s Julia Sweeney channeling Lynn Cheney. But really it’s just Tracy Flick, all grown up and ready to take over the world.

    Palin last night with Charlie Gibson (who at least from the transcript didn’t suck quite as much as I [...]



    la belle dame sans merci

    The fevered dream of the GOP continues.

    I was going to quote some of Sarah Palin’s odious speech, but its Dr. Laura sarcasm and patina of lies made it impossible to stomach.

    The GOP has nothing but god, guns, abortion and war. There was nothing in last night’s speech – or in this entire convention – about how a McCain/Palin administration would solve the credit crisis, [...]



    “territorial integrity.” that’s a good one.

    You set the table for this one, Dummy. And the Georgians are reaping what you have sown:

    Good morning. I’ve just received an update from my national security team on the situation in Georgia. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is in Tbilisi. She’s conferring with President Saakashvili and expressing America’s wholehearted support for Georgia’s democracy.

    The United States and our allies stand with the people of [...]



    prideful dumbshittery

    Krugman hits the Neanderthal on the head:

    …[K]now-nothingism — the insistence that there are simple, brute-force, instant-gratification answers to every problem, and that there’s something effeminate and weak about anyone who suggests otherwise — has become the core of Republican policy and political strategy. The party’s de facto slogan has become: “Real men don’t think things through.”

    Remember how the Iraq war was sold. The stuff about [...]



    Quid Pro Quo Politics: Benton?

    Senator Don Benton claims that his campaign is funded by small business owners and individual citizens at a clip of 60% of his total haul. Aside from the other 40% of his funds coming from places like the National Rifle Association, payday lenders such as Money Tree, tobacco companies like R.J. Reynolds, and corporations like Wal-Mart, Benton’s claims may be correct. One of [...]



    republican economic genius

    Economy in a slump? State budget hurting for tax revenues? Here’s your solution:

    Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger ordered the layoffs of thousands of state workers Thursday and steep pay cuts for most other state employees to ease California’s budget crunch, moves that could mean longer lines at the DMV and delays in processing of workers’ compensation claims.

    The state has been without a budget since the [...]

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