What other profession has been so cosmically wrong?

Economists for an Imaginary World - Washington Post

Corporations do everything people do, except go to jail

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LATE ADDITION: The Rights of Corporations - The New York Times

Sometimes the private sector even gets in the way

The Internet Is Proof that Government Doesn't Bungle Everything - LA Times

Pissing off bankers: always a good decision

Reform or Bust - The New York Times

What's really going on

A Political Idea Warp - Washington Post

A scapegoat for what ails them

Even Glenn Beck Is Right Twice a Day - The New York Times

Not one of "us"

Apparently it's OK when "the other" suffers, here in our "culture of life."

Uninsured Like Me - Salon

Deficits don't matter when the rich are beneficiaries

Washington's Selective Deficit Disorder - Salon

People want "change," not change

Idiots.

Reform Opposition Is High but Easing - Washington Post

Change We'd Rather Do Without - Washington Post

And God said, "Ignore that credit score"

The Recession’s Racial Divide - The New York Times

Juvenile, manipulative, impossibly smarmy, hateful and, above all, relentlesly cynical

A good description: The College Republicans - The Atlantic

Deciding the Court's latest: Balls v. Ideology

A Threat to Fair Elections - The New York Times

Elections For Sale? - LA Times

The first step is to admit we have a problem

It’s Time to Get Help - The New York Times

Their ideology: keeping the government off our backs so the market can keep on riding us

Healthcare Ideas Losing Out to Ideology - LA Times

The good that disproves them? They're free to express themselves

The bad that discredits them? They're poor thinkers who deeply misunderstand reality.

Looking for Common Ground in Glenn Beck Country - LA Times

A rational discussion? No news there

The Real Town Hall Story - Washington Post

Why do conservatives love casting the first stone (and the second, and the third...)?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but U.S. conservatives (and a dismaying number of saner Americans) seem to be the only people in the developed world who feel determined to subject individuals to a behaviorological and characterological review worthy of a proctologist before deeming them worthy of collective assistance, however basic or badly needed. It's hard to imagine it even occurring to a British or French or Canadian citizen to ask, "Yes, but does this person remind me of me? Are they a 'winner,' a paragon of some culturally popular virtue? Or have they made mistakes that I want to believe I would never make?" before granting them a life-saving medical procedure or a needed meal? Should a person's salary or bank account be the measure of his value, of whether he deserves humane treatment? What does it mean to be a "productive" member of society -- or to "deserve" humane treatment? Are you deemed productive, and thus worthy of society's beneficence, only if you bring home a big paycheck? What if you only make minimum wage? Is it then OK to let you starve to death or die of disease if you're unable to provide yourself with everything you need? Is that inability literally a fatal flaw?

Well, if that's what you think, I hope you're very financially secure. The "welfare queen" is back, and the category has been expanded to include not just the darker skinned and the deeply poor, but also the working class. That's right, a blue collar makes you a "leech" and a "loser," too, to be subjected to the same scorn, indifference, and deprivation as the rest of society's unwanted.

The Return of the Welfare Queen - Salon

We Need A Public Pet Option - Salon