Who Gets the Blame for the Deep Deficit? - The New York Times
In other financial news: even I didn't think this would work.
Is TARP Profitable? - Slate
Sunday, August 30, 2009
The current system kills way more Americans than Obama's black-helicoptered minions* ever could
Until Medical Bills Do Us Part - The New York Times
*I hear they're robots. Or maybe clones. Either way, they definitely have ray guns.
*I hear they're robots. Or maybe clones. Either way, they definitely have ray guns.
Saturday, August 29, 2009
Because, surely, her neighbors are all wealthy medical professionals in a position to help. Aren't everyone's?
More conservative assholery: The GOP's Health Solution - Slate
Of course, Coburn favors this non-solution because it is a non-solution. They love it when people suffer.
Of course, Coburn favors this non-solution because it is a non-solution. They love it when people suffer.
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Monday, August 24, 2009
The paranoid style in American politics is now a fashion craze
America the Delusional - LA Times
The Guns of August - The New York Times
Leave The Guns At Home - Washington Post
Rage the Left Should Use - Washington Post
Have you noticed? Nearly everything the nutty nuts believe is the opposite of the truth. The people and institutions they think are their friends are precisely the ones who are screwing them; the people they think are screwing them are the ones who are trying to stop the abuse. How is it possible for one's understanding of basic reality to become so twisted? Ignorance and lack of education is obviously a big part of the problem (look at the low levels of educational attainment in the places where these folks largely cluster), as are false ideas implanted over the years by pro-status-quo, patsy-producing propaganda. For maximum effect, many of these self-serving lies and distortions have been carefully tailored to play to listeners' prejudices, and to dovetail with their sentimental conflation of God with country and "free" enterprise with freedom (never mind that one man's freedom in the marketplace may be another's injury).
But the people aren't entirely to blame. After all, garbage in, garbage out: 'Truth' vs. 'Facts' From America's Media - LA Times
It also doesn't help that the good guys refuse to name names: Anti-Obama Rants Take on New Ferocity - LA Times
The Guns of August - The New York Times
Leave The Guns At Home - Washington Post
Rage the Left Should Use - Washington Post
Have you noticed? Nearly everything the nutty nuts believe is the opposite of the truth. The people and institutions they think are their friends are precisely the ones who are screwing them; the people they think are screwing them are the ones who are trying to stop the abuse. How is it possible for one's understanding of basic reality to become so twisted? Ignorance and lack of education is obviously a big part of the problem (look at the low levels of educational attainment in the places where these folks largely cluster), as are false ideas implanted over the years by pro-status-quo, patsy-producing propaganda. For maximum effect, many of these self-serving lies and distortions have been carefully tailored to play to listeners' prejudices, and to dovetail with their sentimental conflation of God with country and "free" enterprise with freedom (never mind that one man's freedom in the marketplace may be another's injury).
But the people aren't entirely to blame. After all, garbage in, garbage out: 'Truth' vs. 'Facts' From America's Media - LA Times
It also doesn't help that the good guys refuse to name names: Anti-Obama Rants Take on New Ferocity - LA Times
Thursday, August 20, 2009
Friday, August 14, 2009
Thursday, August 13, 2009
You can't make this stuff up
Is it me, or has our civic discourse become a never-ending installment of Leno's "Jaywalking"?
The Medicare-Isn't-Government Meme - Slate
The Medicare-Isn't-Government Meme, Part 2 - Slate
LATE ADDITION: "Don't Know Much About History" - Talking Points Memo
Note to G.O.P.: We've heard that song before. President Barack Obama Could Learn from Franklin D. Roosevelt - LA Times
The Medicare-Isn't-Government Meme - Slate
The Medicare-Isn't-Government Meme, Part 2 - Slate
LATE ADDITION: "Don't Know Much About History" - Talking Points Memo
Note to G.O.P.: We've heard that song before. President Barack Obama Could Learn from Franklin D. Roosevelt - LA Times
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Monday, August 10, 2009
Again, it's how these people think
Anti-Health Care Reform Protester Encourages Physical Violence, Use Of Firearms - Talking Points Memo
Widening Gyre - Talking Points Memo
BTW -- where's the faux outrage now, Faux News?
Widening Gyre - Talking Points Memo
BTW -- where's the faux outrage now, Faux News?
Ignorance: the surest route to gullibility
Healthcare Debate Framed by Fear-Mongering Ads - LA Times
Really -- anyone so logic- and reality-impaired as to believe these ludicrous claims shouldn't be permitted to operate complex machinery (a rake, for example), much less be allowed to emit opinions in a public venue wherein the brains of intelligent participants would likely be damaged.
(To clarify: yes, I do believe in freedom of speech. Very much so. If you have objections to the actual bill, you are -- and ought to be -- free to air them. But if you want to spout talking points that are so transparently fictitious they would prompt eye rolling in toddlers, if you are so intellectually lazy that you can't be bothered to do a 10-second Google search and gather some actual facts, then shut the hell up. You have a right to your "opinion," but until you know what you're talking about, you're just wasting everyone's time in sharing it. All opinions are not created equal.)
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Really -- anyone so logic- and reality-impaired as to believe these ludicrous claims shouldn't be permitted to operate complex machinery (a rake, for example), much less be allowed to emit opinions in a public venue wherein the brains of intelligent participants would likely be damaged.
(To clarify: yes, I do believe in freedom of speech. Very much so. If you have objections to the actual bill, you are -- and ought to be -- free to air them. But if you want to spout talking points that are so transparently fictitious they would prompt eye rolling in toddlers, if you are so intellectually lazy that you can't be bothered to do a 10-second Google search and gather some actual facts, then shut the hell up. You have a right to your "opinion," but until you know what you're talking about, you're just wasting everyone's time in sharing it. All opinions are not created equal.)
Sunday, August 9, 2009
From tinfoil-hatted partisans to political terrorists
Republicans Propagating Falsehoods in Attacks on Health-Care Reform - Washington Post
Pearlstein puts it well: "Health reform is a test of whether this country can function once again as a civil society -- whether we can trust ourselves to embrace the big, important changes that require everyone to give up something in order to make everyone better off."
It is, in other words, a test of whether this nation still possesses a shred of the civic virtue that once animated it, or whether it has surrendered those collective impulses toward generosity and decency, of which we Americans were once so proud, in exchange for another trip to the mall. It is precisely this formerly shared sense of decency that conservatives so virulently oppose, insofar at it conflicts with their own insatiable sense of material entitlement. And they don't give a damn how many get hurt as they hoard.
If that sounds tinfoil-hatted in its own right, just try to imagine the cold-blooded calculus that lies behind some of these horror stories.
Pearlstein puts it well: "Health reform is a test of whether this country can function once again as a civil society -- whether we can trust ourselves to embrace the big, important changes that require everyone to give up something in order to make everyone better off."
It is, in other words, a test of whether this nation still possesses a shred of the civic virtue that once animated it, or whether it has surrendered those collective impulses toward generosity and decency, of which we Americans were once so proud, in exchange for another trip to the mall. It is precisely this formerly shared sense of decency that conservatives so virulently oppose, insofar at it conflicts with their own insatiable sense of material entitlement. And they don't give a damn how many get hurt as they hoard.
If that sounds tinfoil-hatted in its own right, just try to imagine the cold-blooded calculus that lies behind some of these horror stories.
Finally, the me-firsters' ugliest traits are there for all to behold
The Me-First, Screw-Everyone-Else Crowd - Salon
In Sickness and in Wealth - Slate. How America's rising income inequality figures in to the debate over health care.
In Sickness and in Wealth - Slate. How America's rising income inequality figures in to the debate over health care.
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
Manufacturing dissent
Inside The Tea Partiers' Anti-Health Care Organizing Campaign - Talking Points Memo
Memo Details Co-ordinated Anti-Reform Harrassment Strategy - Talking Points Memo
UPDATE: Industry-Backed Anti-Health Care Reform Group: Yeah, We're Packing And Disrupting The Health Care Town Halls - Talking Points Memo
Memo Details Co-ordinated Anti-Reform Harrassment Strategy - Talking Points Memo
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UPDATE: Industry-Backed Anti-Health Care Reform Group: Yeah, We're Packing And Disrupting The Health Care Town Halls - Talking Points Memo
Saturday, August 1, 2009
When "winning" trumps the good and the true
When did bald-faced lying become the sine qua non of conservative politics? Mr. Gingrich?
Talk Radio Campaign Frightening Seniors - Washington Post
Talk Radio Campaign Frightening Seniors - Washington Post
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