It's a good thing Glenn doesn't need to eat and sleep much-- unless he's lashed himself to his chair with his mouse cable, and is surrounded by heaps of punctured cans of Ensure and unemptied slop buckets.

Alas! This story will be limited to a damp fizzle by the corporate media, which is designed to suppress incendiary truths-- incendiary to itself, that is. I can't blame them for being skittish-- when one's "profession" consists of dealing from the bottom of the deck to build a house of cards and tell the Yahoo masses what's trump, the slightest spark of unfavorable factual and clear information risks a catastrophic conflagration.

So keep tossing those Greewald Cocktails, Glenn!

Glenn has patiently wrapped several turns of titanium filament around a big old rotten Luce tooth sticking out of the maw of the Amerikan corporate media. And the other end of the filament is wrapped around the knob of an open door.

The patient's unseemly spasmodic twitches and jerks, and fits of pique, only increases the possibility that Glenn, with the help of allies, will slam that door shut sooner or later. We've seen too many cases of stories being smothered by the damp and mildewed miasma of corporate media suppression and disinformation, strengthened by the chill of public ignorance and apathy. But here there are palpable signs of a ripple effect in the form of politicians independently rallying to the positions expressed by Glenn.

I'll only harp a teeny bit on my recurring observation that this is a class war, and that the elites at TIME are so sure that they are superior and unassailable that they expect their "We are not amused" response to carry the day.

TIME and its supporters are so icily unwilling to publicly (and perhaps privately, who knows?) admit that not only did they publish appalling falsehoods using execrable methods that flung down truth and integrity and danced upon it-- they were mercilessly corrected by a nobody, a blogger, a dilettante, an amateur!

Also, they are employing the popular Larry Craig Gambit of hunkering down in the face of richly-deserved public disapprobation and ridicule, counting on the worst to blow over without further indignity. I regret to note that this technique seems to succeed to a certain extent, and ardently hope that this strategy finally backfires in their reprehensible faces and grotesquely swollen egos.

PS: Has anyone checked to see if Col. Boylan is on leave, or working undercover as TIME's managing editor?

I've been snarking for months at moderate/centrist/loyal Democrats who embrace and preach the monotonous, two-dimensional gospel of supporting the Lesser Evil. For all of their strident and self-righteous claims about being "realists", "pragmatists", etc., their "reality" is actually heavily filtered, processed, and manipulated-- a high-contrast, flattened version that simply doesn't register nuance, texture, and dimension.

One is frequently subjected to bumper-sticker "arguments", e.g. "Anyone who claims there's no difference between Republicans and Democrats is just nuts!"

FWIW, I don't claim that there's no difference. I do assert, however, that the Democrats' superficial appearance of being the "Lesser Evil" is illusory-- a tragic mirage, partly sustained by the lost, dying, and scorched members of the body politic who desperately seek to slake their mortal thirst.

More sympathetic to this need to hope and believe I could not be. But the shabby, unprincipled crew of political elites headed by Reid and Pelosi aren't offering fresh, if tepid, water to their thirstiest constituents. They're pissing on our legs and calling it Gatorade.

At best, they are "better" than the ruthless, venal Republic plutocracy in power because they are not as openly corrosive and fulminating in their parasitic grip on We the People. But it is folly to judge the present Democratic Party as a "lesser evil" in any but the most trivial, shallowest sense. They are a slower-acting, more fitful and insidious toxin. But they are just as lethal as the Republics. Thus, I believe that embracing Democratic candidates with the naive or deluded conviction that they will institute fundamental reforms to the political status quo is futile and wrong.

There is the corollary "sensible" belief that of course Democrats aren't "perfect" (the perfect is the enemy of the good, you know), but that it is the obligation and duty of progressive citizens to support the best of them, and then "keep the pressure on" to slowly but surely effect reform and positive change. Sounds good, I'll admit. But it's at best a beguiling fantasy.

It's telling that these folks, who I do generally accept are well-intended, have made dirty words out of "purity" and "conscience". It's a tacit admission that they have been persuaded to abandon their own consciences, or subsumed them into the groupthink of Party Loyalty, and that they are resigned to wallowing in the putrescence of the decayed political status quo. They urge, often bitterly and superciliously, that the rest of us join them in the rancid gutpile of the eviscerated Constitution and political process; once everyone is plastered in slime, no one will notice the stink.

The faithful Democratic partisans, including those who believe that a Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama possess virtue and integrity sufficient to transcend our corrupt, broken and bankrupt elitist duopoly might as well be the ghosts of the parents of Lyle and Erik Menendez, moaning beyond the grave that their sons are basically good boys, if maybe a little wild.