Yesterday and Today By Tomorrow

A re-post from my old blog.
I'll post more when they are relevant and when I have time...

Tom Tomorrow is good.

Won't Someone Think Of The Private Insurance Companies?

W to the rescue! And anyway, if poor kids were all healthy and rosie-cheeked, we couldn't tell them from the more likeable regular kids.

Kristol Gale

Bill Kristol lives in a nice padded home on the banks of Denial.

The Age Of Rage

I'd tell a certain someone about this article but he'd probably throw a chair at me.

Fact Up

I saw this today over at TPM Cafe. It's a brilliant take down of the absurd Plame-Gate distortions emanating from the nuttier voices of the right.
The nuttier voice in this case is NY Times' David Brooks, whose vacant sign still can be seen hanging from his lapel.
The take down is courtesy of David Corn, who has been covering the story, at very close range, from the beginning.
All this and Larry Johnson's story of a neighbourly gesture.

Knowledge

Via Eric Alterman, this essay by E.L. Doctrow on the state of democracy in the U.S. today.
Remarks on the theme of The Public Good: Knowledge as the Foundation for a Democratic Society

Two things must be said about knowledge-deniers. Their rationale is always political. And more often than not, they hold in their hand a sacred text for certification.

...amen...

The president may speak of the nation in idealistic terms but his actions demonstrate that he has no real concept of national community. His America, like that of his sponsors, is a population to be manipulated for the power to be had for the money to be made. He is the subject of jokes and he jokes himself about his clumsiness with words, but his mispronunciations and malapropisms suggest a mind of half-learned language that is eerily compatible with his indifference to truth, his disdain for knowledge as a foundation of a democratic society.