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    We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for awhile, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.
    Carl Sagan

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    Tell Me Why We Are Not Doomed?

    It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to know what to do about the banking crisis.  But it does take a Congress that is comprised of something more than paid shills for the industries they are supposed to be regulating.  President Obama got it right by attempting to put a compensation cap on executive pay for entities taking taxpayer rescue funds.

    Well according to Cenk Uygur [...]



    makes sense to me

    I thought at the time there was something hinky going on, but I didn’t know the specifics about this until Mike Malloy mentioned it last night:

    The exposure of New York State Governor Eliot Spitzer’s tryst with a luxury call girl had little to do with the Bush administration’s high moral standards for public servants… Timing suggests that Spitzer was likely a target of a White [...]



    it has been eight months

    since Riverbend last posted; the post was long and hopeful, about she and her family’s arrived in Syria as refugees from Iraq.

    But since then, only silence.

    From the Washington Post last week:

    Damascus is the epicenter of the Middle East’s gravest humanitarian disaster since the Palestinian refugee crisis of 1948. …Unlike its neighbors, who have imposed strict visa requirements, Syria has done little to discourage the flow [...]