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...growing out of Stolen Election 2000, the one that especially irks me is that this, exactly, is what President Gore would've done with the spirit of sacrifice and unity that instantly arose in the post-attack nation.
Out of that tragedy would have come something wonderful for the entire world.
What a tease Eric Alterman is.
In criticizing a WSJ op-ed praising Bush's "rallying the nation" after 9/11, he writes this:
Gee, that was tough. Kermit the Frog could have rallied the nation in response to 9/11, and I'm betting he would done a hell of a better job than Bush, (who, by the way, evidence indicates, appears to have experienced a kind of emotional breakdown in the wake of the attack and had to be kept hidden from public view).
Huh?
Read how this unfortunately exemplary woman fell for every credit trick the bright boys devised and ruined her life.
And how these folks are turning to God for their credit counseling.
And how the economy is a toilet swirl sweeping us down, down in the widening gyre (but hey, premature gloomer Roubini gets told-ya-so props in the NYT!).
Finally, dredge yourself back up with great McCain snark from Frank Rich.
When it comes to the central front of American anxiety — the economy — his learning curve has flat-lined.
In 2000, he told an interviewer that he would make up for his lack of attention to “those issues.” As he entered the 2008 campaign, Mr. McCain was still saying the same, vowing to read “Greenspan’s book” as a tutorial. Last weekend, the resolutely analog candidate told The New York Times he is at last starting to learn how “to get online myself.”
Perhaps he’ll retire his abacus by Election Day.
Read closely.
If you'd like to get furious about the crony-corrupt-corporate-welfare capitalism as it's practiced today in the USA then just listen to David Cay Johnson's speech to the Commonwealth Club of California (RealPlayer).
Jesus, the big-box stores get to keep all sales tax as a reward for building their store and ruining all the local businesses.
The Walton family is richer than Gates and Buffett combined. And they get our tax revenue.
There's a tension in the room and the questions. DCJ is a bit of a bomb-thrower for a NYT reporter.
I love it.
I guess a bunch of Ravers being partially blinded, permanently, by a laser light show isn't the worst thing that happened in the world this week, but Jesus H. Christ, as Mom used to say.
Surveillance cameras + a free internet + a still-working court system can = the exposure of injustice.
A sixteen-year old boy, for God's sake.
...as far as Vice President Cheney is concerned.
Because otherwise, his killing an investigation by the CIA Inspector General would be pretty shocking.
It was looking into torture.
Next time you look up at New York's art deco masterpiece, the Chrysler Building, you can say to yourself, "hey, that's owned (75%) by Abu Dhabi."
The American Century? The 20th.
Certainly preferable to having them knocked down by planes, of course.
At a time when we should long be over the panic of 9/11, another shameful episode of destroying the greatness of America, this remarkable experiment in freedom.
