all understand that any male who needs to show the size of his weapon in public is an limp-pencil-dick?

Obama has cashed his check.

The profit to be made from suffering and death will await another generation.

This reminds me of the overpopulation debate.

The longer we put off major changes, the more of us (or actually them, since as a childless by choice boomer I plan to be gone) there will be to be pushed off the cliff.

Palin/Bachmann in 2012?

Oh, please.

of the blind freshwater faith in the rational (rational?? these are the same folks who voted for Reagan and the Bushes!) market, and deregulation to let it work, has been the decline in anti-trust enforcement, the gutting of the tort system, which even Friedman thought was a useful tool because it takes the profit out of causing harm, and the resulting concentration of wealth at the far right side of the population bell curve. As we've proved twice in this country in the last 80 years, it just doesn't work, even, in the long run, for the rich folks.

"Verily I say unto you, there is no one so foolish about wealth as a rich man."

Like it's 1929!

fully expecting to find an organic Onion.

Maybe the switch in emphasis from public option to health insurance reform is a backdoor route to a single payer system, which is the only rational outcome.

If the monopsonists in the health insurance industry that Gabriel Winant describes are no longer permitted to deny coverage for pre-existing conditions, if they can no longer drop the policies of those who actually use them, they will either:

a) cut the profits that increased 428% from 2000-2007;

b) cut the 7 and 8-figure compensation to top execs; or

c) jack up premiums so far that no one can afford private insurance.

That just might do it.

these fools have driven us to the brink.

Verily I say unto you, there is no one so foolish about wealth as a rich man.

If these top 1% folks owned a goose that laid golden eggs, they would kill it for its liver.

How can the neocons fail to notice that Israel has long since quit being David, and has, at least since 1967, been the Goliath of the eastern Mediterranean, all the while spending money that it did not earn?

(Leon Uris defined Round Two, back during Podhoretz's formative years.)

And while we're at it, shouldn't people who build houses on land they do not own be called squatters, rather than settlers? Ask the Native Americans' opinion.

Hell, he's only the former Governor of Georgia, former President of the whole damned United States, and the winner of the Nobel Prize. What could he possibly understand?

The racists no longer matter, except to each other, no one listens to them, except for each other, and it's driving them nuts.

Well, I guess they were always nuts, but now they're becoming abnormal, and it scares them to death.

Is this perhaps a stealth campaign to find an acceptable alternative form of birth control?

The Senate is debating what may well be the biggest piece of legislation in a generation, and Massachusetts only has one vote, while the fools have 40 (or more).

Sounds like an emergency to me.

and you could not force me to read it without a loaded pistol and a credible threat to use it.

Saint Ronnie was not only the corner post for the free-market religion that gave us monopolies and oligopolies and the greatest concentration of wealth since 1929 (thus proving that there is no one so foolish about wealth as a rich man), he was also the turning point in the dumbing down of the U.S., catering to the religious right and starting the grass-roots takeover of local school boards that has made our 15-year-old children rank 17th out of the 30 countries in the OECD in math and science.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/04/AR2007120400730.html

Given the pace of current developments, we may never recover.

As we thoroughly chewed in the Reagan thread, the "wild-eyed redistribution of wealth" started under Saint Ronnie and ended at the edge of the deepest hole in the economy since the Great Depression.

If rich folks weren't so foolish about wealth, they would understand that undoing that redistribution will be for the long-term benefit of them and their children. Sooner or later, poor folks get tired of quietly watching their children starve.

Ask Marie Antionette how well that concentration of wealth thing worked for her.

from the state that gave us Ronald Reagan.

Why are we not surprised?

The Nobel Peace Prize committee reached its decision without consulting Limbaugh, or the Okie dumbass, or whomever the rest of them are?

Has there ever been so much looking backward as does the multi-millionaire media in America looking at Republicans?

The correct usage is: Rep Mike Ross, "D"-Ark.

You can gauge the seriousness of this sudden apparent logic by the depth of his donations from the medical-industrial complex.

It's time to declare a new Civil War, and this time drive the fools south.

The border wall we need in not on the Rio Grande, it's on the Mason-Dixon.

Toritto,

I read Malthus in the 60's, read the Club of Rome in the 70's, and decided that my carbon footprint (no one called it that then) would stop with me.

I am neither smug nor comfortable. I have five great-nephews whose grandchildren may come to piss on their parent's graves.

Making human children is a bigger self-indulgence than smoking crack.

It is time that we gave our Congresspersons the respect that they have earned.

Like the most desperate street-walking crack-whore in east Little Rock, the honorable Congresspersons have given and will continue to give service on both knees to those who have given them cash.

If you have given less cash than the medical-industrial complex, you should expect less service in the big-bucks health-cash issue.

Otherwise would be dishonorable.